Industrial Espionage and Technology Transfer
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British technology migration
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Cementation Steel
Coal Fuel Technologies
Conservatoire Des Arts
Copper Sheathing
Cotton Velvet
cross-border knowledge transfer
De Montigny
De Saudray
Duc De Noailles
eighteenth-century industry
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Faujas De Saint Fond
Flint Glass
Flint Glass Making
historical industrial technology exchange
Industrial Espionage
John Holker
Le Creusot
Le Turc
Lead Chamber Process
manufacturing law history
metallurgy advancements France
Mignot De Montigny
Newcomen Engine
Plate Glass Industry
Reverberatory Furnace
Saint Gobain
Saint Sever
Sulphuric Acid Manufacture
textile machinery smuggling
Trudaine De Montigny
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781138418325
- Weight: 1160g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jun 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Britain and France were the leading industrial nations in 18th-century Europe. This book examines the rivalry which existed between the two nations and the methods used by France to obtain the skilled manpower and technology which had given Britain the edge - particularly in the new coal-based technologies. Despite the British Act of 1719 which outlawed industrial espionage and technology transfer, France continued to bring key industrial workers from Britain and to acquire British machinery and production methods. Drawing on a mass of unpublished archival material, this book investigates the nature and application of British laws and the involvement of some major British industrialists in these issues, and discusses the extent to which French espionage had any real success. In the process it presents an in-depth understanding of 18th-century economies, and the cultures and bureaucracies which were so important in shaping economic life. Above all, the late John Harris saw the history of industrial espionage as "one means of restoring the thoughts and activities of human beings to the centre stage of industrial history". These are the stories of individuals - Holkers, Trudaines, Wilkinsons, or Milnes - and their impact on the world.
