A Directory Of Cartographic Inventors

Author : Mark S. Monmonier
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-10
Category : Cartographers
ISBN : 1985690225

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A Directory of Cartographic Inventors by Mark S. Monmonier Pdf

As its title and subtitle imply, this book is a collection of short biographies of people awarded United States patents for inventions intended to improve map use or map making. We say "intended" because, as with most patented innovations, their clever ideas seldom made it to store shelves, magazine ads, or mail order catalogs-a fate shared with most improvements proposed in cartography's scientific-technical journals. This collection is a spinoff of a project focused on inventions rather than inventors. The project's principal product was Monmonier's book Patents and Cartographic Inventions: A New Perspective for Map History, published in 2017 by Palgrave Macmillan. As its chapter titles confirm, the emphasis was on genres of innovation like route-following devices and map folding, rather than on their inventors, whose diverse life stories could too readily distract from a narrative focused on technological trends, clever ideas, and wider impacts.

Author : Mark Monmonier
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319510408

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Patents and Cartographic Inventions by Mark Monmonier Pdf

This book explores the US patent system, which helped practical minded innovators establish intellectual property rights and fulfill the need for achievement that motivates inventors and scholars alike. In this sense, the patent system was a parallel literature: a vetting institution similar to the conventional academic-scientific-technical journal insofar as the patent examiner was both editor and peer reviewer, while the patent attorney was a co-author or ghost writer. In probing evolving notions of novelty, non-obviousness, and cumulative innovation, Mark Monmonier examines rural address guides, folding schemes, world map projections, diverse improvements of the terrestrial globe, mechanical route-following machines that anticipated the GPS navigator, and the early electrical you-are-here mall map, which opened the way for digital cartography and provided fodder for patent trolls, who treat the patent largely as a license to litigate.

Author : Matthew H. Edney
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780226605715

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Cartography by Matthew H. Edney Pdf

“In his most ambitious work to date, [Edney] questions the very concept of ‘cartography’ to argue that this flawed ideal has hobbled the study of maps.” —Susan Schulten, author of A History of America in 100 Maps Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time and space. As the current director of the project that has produced these volumes, Matthew H. Edney has a unique vantage point for understanding what “cartography” has come to mean and include. In this book Edney disavows the term cartography, rejecting the notion that maps represent an undifferentiated category of objects for study. Rather than treating maps as a single, unified group, he argues, scholars need to take a processual approach that examines specific types of maps—sea charts versus thematic maps, for example—in the context of the unique circumstances of their production, circulation, and consumption. To illuminate this bold argument, Edney chronicles precisely how the ideal of cartography that has developed in the West since 1800 has gone astray. By exposing the flaws in this ideal, his book challenges everyone who studies maps and mapping practices to reexamine their approach to the topic. The study of cartography will never be the same. “[An] intellectually bracing and marvellously provocative account of how the mythical ideal of cartography developed over time and, in the process, distorted our understanding of maps.” —Times Higher Education “Cartography: The Ideal and Its History offers both a sharp critique of current practice and a call to reorient the field of map studies. A landmark contribution.” —Kären Wigen, coeditor of Time in Maps

Author : Mark Monmonier
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781609388218

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Clock and Compass by Mark Monmonier Pdf

"A city guy who aspired to be a farmer, John Byron Plato took a three-month winter course in agriculture at Cornell before starting high school, which he left a year before graduation to fight with US troops during the Spanish-American War. After the war he worked as a draftsman, ran a veneers business, patented and manufactured a parking brake for horse-drawn delivery wagons, taught school, and ran a lumber yard. In his early thirties he bought some farmland north of Denver and began raising Guernsey cattle, which he advertised for sale in the local paper. When an interested buyer eager to see his calves couldn't find his farm, Plato realized that an RFD postal address was only good for delivering mail. Farmers had started buying cars and trucks, but without adequate maps and signage townsfolk couldn't visit them and they couldn't easily find each other. Plato's solution was a map-and-directory combo that used direction and distance from a local business center to give farmers a real address, just like city folk. He patented his invention and tried to sell it to the Post Office, which took a pass-their business was delivering mail, not facilitating travel. Because the clockface's hours provided the directions, he called his strategy the "Clock System." Some Chicago promoters became intrigued but after their plans failed to gel, he decided to produce the maps himself. Rural sociologists at Cornell, who considered the Clock System an antidote for rural isolation, encouraged him to start a business in Ithaca, where he mapped a dozen New York counties until the Great Depression intervened and he left to work as a government mapmaker in Washington. Between 1936 (after his patent had expired) and 1940, some Ithaca businessmen validated the concept by making "Compass System" maps for half the state's counties"--

Author : American Congress on Surveying and Mapping. Technical Division on Cartography. Research Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1979*
Category : Cartography
ISBN : LCCN:79110965

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Directory of Contemporary Cartographic Research by American Congress on Surveying and Mapping. Technical Division on Cartography. Research Committee Pdf

Author : Mary Alice Lowenthal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Cartographers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024575065

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Who's who in the History of Cartography by Mary Alice Lowenthal Pdf

Author : Mary Alice Lowenthal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:637393459

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Who's who in the History of Cartography by Mary Alice Lowenthal Pdf

Author : Adrian Seville,Thierry Depaulis,Geert H. Bekkering
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004681149

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Playing with Maps: Cartographic Games in Western Culture by Adrian Seville,Thierry Depaulis,Geert H. Bekkering Pdf

This is the first serious book wholly devoted to games based on maps. The authors are experts in their respective fields: board games, playing cards and dissected puzzles. They bring an informed historical approach to the development and diffusion of these games up to about the beginning of the twentieth century, including games from Western Europe and America in all their intriguing variety. This book is an essential reference source for those wishing to research this neglected area, while those new to the field will be pleasantly surprised at the interesting and unusual maps that these games exploit.

Author : Ashley Baynton-Williams
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226237299

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The Curious Map Book by Ashley Baynton-Williams Pdf

Since that ancient day when the first human drew a line connecting Point A to Point B, maps have been understood as one of the most essential tools of communication. Despite differences in language, appearance, or culture, maps are universal touchstones in human civilization. Over the centuries, maps have served many varied purposes; far from mere guides for reaching a destination, they are unique artistic forms, aides in planning commercial routes, literary devices for illuminating a story. Accuracy—or inaccuracy—of maps has been the make-or-break factor in countless military battles throughout history. They have graced the walls of homes, bringing prestige and elegance to their owners. They track the mountains, oceans, and stars of our existence. Maps help us make sense of our worlds both real and imaginary—they bring order to the seeming chaos of our surroundings. With The Curious Map Book, Ashley Baynton-Williams gathers an amazing, chronologically ordered variety of cartographic gems, mainly from the vast collection of the British Library. He has unearthed a wide array of the whimsical and fantastic, from maps of board games to political ones, maps of the Holy Land to maps of the human soul. In his illuminating introduction, Baynton-Williams also identifies and expounds upon key themes of map production, peculiar styles, and the commerce and collection of unique maps. This incredible volume offers a wealth of gorgeous illustrations for anyone who is cartographically curious.

Author : United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Cartographic Section
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Government publications
ISBN : PURD:32754081522447

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Records Relating to Railroads in the Cartographic Section of the National Archives by United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Cartographic Section Pdf

Author : Mary Elizabeth Berry
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520254176

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Japan in Print by Mary Elizabeth Berry Pdf

Considering the social processes that drove the information explosion of the 1600s, this is an account of the conversion of the public from an object of state surveillance into a subject of self-knowledge. It shows that public texts projected a national collectivity characterized by access to markets, mobility, sociability, and self-fashioning.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119497670

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Cartography
ISBN : UCAL:B3552875

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Surveying and Mapping by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Government publications
ISBN : WISC:89015139215

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Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mark Monmonier
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 1728 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226152127

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The History of Cartography, Volume 6 by Mark Monmonier Pdf

For more than thirty years, the History of Cartography Project has charted the course for scholarship on cartography, bringing together research from a variety of disciplines on the creation, dissemination, and use of maps. Volume 6, Cartography in the Twentieth Century, continues this tradition with a groundbreaking survey of the century just ended and a new full-color, encyclopedic format. The twentieth century is a pivotal period in map history. The transition from paper to digital formats led to previously unimaginable dynamic and interactive maps. Geographic information systems radically altered cartographic institutions and reduced the skill required to create maps. Satellite positioning and mobile communications revolutionized wayfinding. Mapping evolved as an important tool for coping with complexity, organizing knowledge, and influencing public opinion in all parts of the globe and at all levels of society. Volume 6 covers these changes comprehensively, while thoroughly demonstrating the far-reaching effects of maps on science, technology, and society—and vice versa. The lavishly produced volume includes more than five hundred articles accompanied by more than a thousand images. Hundreds of expert contributors provide both original research, often based on their own participation in the developments they describe, and interpretations of larger trends in cartography. Designed for use by both scholars and the general public, this definitive volume is a reference work of first resort for all who study and love maps.