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The Science of Energy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 424

The Science of Energy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Traditional accounts of the energy concept have tended to emphasize its discovery, an inevitable product of the progress of science in the 19th century. This new history places the construction of the concept firmly in its social context.

Coal, Steam and Ships
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 473

Coal, Steam and Ships

An innovative account of the trials and tribulations of first-generation Victorian mail steamship lines, their passengers and the public.

Energy and Empire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 906

Energy and Empire

This study of Lord Kelvin, the most famous mathematical physicist of 19th-century Britain, delivers on a speculation long entertained by historians of science that Victorian physics expressed in its very content the industrial society that produced it.

Frankenstein, Creation, and Monstrosity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

Frankenstein, Creation, and Monstrosity

Deals with the place of the monster in Western

Wranglers and Physicists
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Wranglers and Physicists

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Engineering Empires
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 363

Engineering Empires

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-12-07
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  • Publisher: Springer

Engineers are empire-builders. Watt, Brunel, and others worked to build and expand personal and business empires of material technology and in so doing these engineers also became active agents of political and economic empire. This book provides a fascinating exploration of the cultural construction of the large-scale technologies of empire.

Popularizing Science and Technology in the European Periphery, 1800–2000
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 351

Popularizing Science and Technology in the European Periphery, 1800–2000

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-03-23
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The vast majority of European countries have never had a Newton, Pasteur or Einstein. Therefore a historical analysis of their scientific culture must be more than the search for great luminaries. Studies of the ways science and technology were communicated to the public in countries of the European periphery can provide a valuable insight into the mechanisms of the appropriation of scientific ideas and technological practices across the continent. The contributors to this volume each take as their focus the popularization of science in countries on the margins of Europe, who in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries may be perceived to have had a weak scientific culture. A variety of scient...

Frankenstein
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 279

Frankenstein

Presents a collection of writings exploring the characters from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

An Empire of Magnetism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 323

An Empire of Magnetism

This book offers an in-depth, global history of the British Magnetic Survey - the nineteenth-century, British-government-funded efforts to measure and understand the earth's magnetic field. These scientific efforts are situated within the context of the development of 'global science' and the ways they intersected with empire and colonialism.

Coast to Coast
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 175

Coast to Coast

From the beginnings of human settlement through to the Cook voyages and beyond, histories of ‘the Pacific’ are stories of contact and connection. This vast region can be charted through histories of encounter between the diverse peoples of the Pacific,the Pacific Rim and the wider world. Coast to Coast explores the networks of modernity that connected the various peoples of the Pacific,Australia and North America as new means of transportation, distribution and communication developed from the mid-nineteenth century.