Article ID: CBB001320536

Enlightened Secrets: Silk, Intelligent Travel, and Industrial Espionage in Eighteenth-Century France (2013)

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Bertucci, Paola (Author)


Technology and Culture
Volume: 54.4
Pages: 820--852


Publication Date: 2013
Edition Details: Part of the special section: “Science and Industry in Modern France”.
Language: English

The paper offers a critical assessment of the notion of industrial espionage by examining the cultures of openness and secrecy in the context of silk manufacture in Enlightenment France. By analyzing the practices of dissimulation and secrecy employed by the abbé Nollet during his journey aimed at gathering technical information on the manufacture of silk in Italy, the author introduces the category of intelligent travel to provide a nuanced discussion of the relationship between technology transfer, state secrecy and academic openness.

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Authors & Contributors
Bertucci, Paola
Germuska, Pál
Garçon, Anne-Françoise
Igler, David
Jones, Peter Murray
Levitt, Theresa
Journals
Technology and Culture
Comparative Technology Transfer and Society
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Journal of Global History
Archives of Natural History
French History
Publishers
Johns Hopkins University Press
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Technology transfer
Silk and silk industry
Travel; exploration
Espionage
Secrecy
Trade
People
Cook, James
Nollet, Jean Antoine
Petiver, James
Pivati, Gianfrancesco
Shaler, William
Tradescant, family
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
19th century
20th century
20th century, late
Medieval
Places
France
Great Britain
Soviet Union
Hungary
Central Europe
New Mexico (U.S.)
Institutions
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
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