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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.

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Mark Monmonier is Distinguished Professor of Geography in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Adrienne Lee Atterberry is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Kayla Fermin (B.A. Geography, SU/Maxwell, 2017) works in Oregon in the Resources Division at Lewis and Clark National Historical Park. Gabrielle E. Marzolf studies geopolitics and communications at Syracuse University. Madeleine Hamlin is a 2017 graduate of master's programs in Public Administration and Geography at Syracuse University's Maxwell School.

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