title: Spying for the enlightenment.
abstract: According to Enlightenment ideology, knowledge was shared openly in the international Republic of Letters. In reality, the owners of lucrative new technologies were determined to keep their discoveries hidden from industrial spies.
authors.affiliation: Clare College, Cambridge, UK. pf10006@cam.ac.uk
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fara
mesh_terms: D003415:Crime / Q000266:history*; D004739:England; D006804:Ergonomics / Q000266:history*; D032984:Ethics, Research / Q000266:history; D049671:History, 18th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010330:Patents as Topic / Q000266:history*; D012586:Science / Q000266:history*