Prof. Monmonier Examines Map Inventions in New Book

Geography Professor Mark Monmonier of the Maxwell School was heavily featured in the National Geographic article, “These are the Cleverest, Weirdest, Mapping Ideas Ever Patented.” Monmonier uncovered and engaged with over 300 map-related patents for his new book, “Patents and Cartographic Inventions.”

“Some of them I think were extremely clever,” Monmonier wrote, while others, “might have made made cartoonist [Rube] Goldberg scratch his head.”