What would our world today be like without inventions like tarmac,
aspirin, liquid crystals, and barbed wire? This guide shows how
patents and the inventions they describe have shaped the 21st
century. It gives us insights into the inventions, big and small,
that have had huge impacts, many unexpected, on multiple spheres of
our lives, from popular culture and entertainment, to global
health, to transportation, to the waging of war. It features patent
documents that date from the mid-19th century to the present.
Patent documents describe inventions and represent an accurate and
rich source of information about the history and current state of
modern technology, as patents are examined and their accuracy can
be challenged. The subject matter covers many technical areas.
Patents discussed include, for example, Morse code, the diode,
triode, transistors, television, frozen foods, ring-pull for soft
drink cans, board games such as Monopoly, gene editing,
metamaterials, MRI, computerised tomography, insulin, and
monoclonal antibodies such as Herceptin. The text is illustrated
with drawings adapted from the original patent documents. Patent
numbers are included to allow interested readers to trace the
documents. Inventions described in the patents are placed in
historical perspective. For example, the book discusses the role of
the cavity magnetron and radar in World War II, and the influence
of the diode on the development of broadcasting at the beginning of
the 20th century.
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