Pascal Griset Livres

Since the early years of telegraphy, modernity at large generated and has depended upon technologies of electrical/electronic communication and information circulation: from telephone, radio, and television to the internet. This volume reveals these connecting technologies’ geopolitical importance and their crucial relationships with culture, commerce, and communities. Also the authors critically examine their spatial dimensions and transnational implications – as material objects with particular qualities, as elements in institutional complexes, and as ‘vehicles’ carrying complex symbolic meanings. Through in-depth assessments of critical, as well as mundane, events in the history of communications and information, these analyses will significantly alter conventional perspectives both on communications and on modern European history.

This work was undertaken at the initiative of the European Patent Office to mark the 40th anniversary of the signing of the European Patent Convention on 5 October 1973. It traces the origins of the European Patent Office (EPO) and its development since the 1970s.

Das Werk geht zurück auf eine Initiative des Europäischen Patentamts anlässlich des 40. Jahrestags der Unterzeichnung des Europäischen Patentübereinkommens am 5. Oktober 1973.