Technological Change in a Society in Transition: Work in Progress on a Unified Reference Work in Early American Patent History
报告了基于1836年专利局火灾后国会和专员行动，构建全面准确描述美国向工业社会转型中技术范围与水平及其变化的统一参考著作的进展，并展示了数据用途。
Fire destroyed the Patent Office on December 15, 1836. From the ensuing actions by the Congress and Commissioner, it is possible to create a comprehensive and accurate description of the scope and level of technology and changes therein, as the United States transformed itself into an industrial society. This paper reports the progress made toward that description (in the form of a unified reference work), illustrates some uses of the data, and suggests other uses of the final version in expanding understanding of the processes of sociocultural change, particularly those of capitalist development.