Inventions and official secrecy : a history of secret patents in the United Kingdom /

Secrets will always be a factor in the political life of any society, and it could be argued that none enjoy secrets, particularly Official Secrets, quite so much as the English. Inventions and Official Secrecy traces the little known history of UK legislation which permits the British Government to...

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Main Authors: O'Dell, T. H (Thomas Henry), O'Dell, T. H (Tom H.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1994
Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1994
Oxford : [1994], ©1994
Oxford : c1994
Oxford : ©1994
Oxford : 1994
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505 0 |a 1. Introduction -- 2. The First Secret Patent -- 3. The Secret Patents Act of 1859 -- 4. Towards an Official Secrets Act -- 5. The Secrets of Two Technical Revolutions -- 6. Introducing the Examiners -- 7. Between the Wars -- 8. The Second World War -- 9. Making Wartime Procedure Permanent -- 10. The Last Secret Patent 
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