Author: Samuel SmilesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
The steam-engine. Boulton and Watt. New and rev. ed. 1878
Author: Samuel SmilesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Lives of the Engineers ...: The steam-engine. Boulton and Watt. New and rev. ed. 1878
Author: Samuel SmilesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The steam-engine. Boulton and Watt. New and rev. ed. 1878
Author: Samuel SmilesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Reinventing the Economic History of Industrialisation
Author: Kristine BrulandPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228002060
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
The Industrial Revolution is central to the teaching of economic history. It has also been key to historical research on the commercial expansion of Western Europe, the rise of factories, coal and iron production, the proletarianization of labour, and the birth and worldwide spread of industrial capitalism. However, perspectives on the Industrial Revolution have changed significantly in recent years. The interdisciplinary approach of Reinventing the Economic History of Industrialisation - with contributions on the history of consumption, material culture, and cultural histories of science and technology - offers a more global perspective, arguing for an interpretation of the industrial revolution based on global interactions that made technological innovation and the spread of knowledge possible. Through this new lens, it becomes clear that industrialising processes started earlier and lasted longer than previously understood. Reflecting on the major topics of concern for economic historians over the past generation, Reinventing the Economic History of Industrialisation brings this area of study up to date and points the way forward.
The Life and Legend of James Watt
Author: David Philip MillerPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822986795
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
The Life and Legend of James Wattoffers a deeper understanding of the work and character of the great eighteenth-century engineer. Stripping away layers of legend built over generations, David Philip Miller finds behind the heroic engineer a conflicted man often diffident about his achievements but also ruthless in protecting his inventions and ideas, and determined in pursuit of money and fame. A skilled and creative engineer, Watt was also a compulsive experimentalist drawn to natural philosophical inquiry, and a chemistry of heat underlay much of his work, including his steam engineering. But Watt pursued the business of natural philosophy in a way characteristic of his roots in the Scottish “improving” tradition that was in tension with Enlightenment sensibilities. As Miller demonstrates, Watt’s accomplishments relied heavily on collaborations, not always acknowledged, with business partners, employees, philosophical friends, and, not least, his wives, children, and wider family. The legend created in his later years and “afterlife” claimed too much of nineteenth-century technology for Watt, but that legend was, and remains, a powerful cultural force.
Handy Lists of Technical Literature
Author: Structures of Change in the Mechanical Age
Author: Ross ThomsonPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801891418
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
The United States registered phenomenal economic growth between the establishment of the new republic and the end of the Civil War. This study argues that the transition of the United States from an agrarian economy in 1790 to an industrial leader in 1865 relied fundamentally on the spread of technological knowledge within and across industries.
Catalogue of the Lending Department of the Library of the Corporation of the City of London
Author: Corporation of London. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Archibald Liversidge, FRS
Author: Roy M. MacLeodPublisher: Sydney University Press
ISBN: 1920898808
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
When Archibald Liversidge first arrived at Sydney University in 1872 as reader in Geology and Assistant in the Laboratory he had about ten students and two rooms in the main building. In 1874 he became professor of geology and mineralogy and by 1879 he had persuaded the senate to open a faculty of science. He became its first dean in 1882. In 1880 he visited Europe as a trustee of the Australian Museum and his report helped to establish the Industrial, Technological and Sanitary Museum which formed the basis of the present Powerhouse Museum's collection. Liversidge also played a major role in the setting up of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science which held its first congress in 1888. For anyone interested in Archibald Liversidge, his contribution to crystallography, mineral chemistry, chemical geology, strategic minerals policy and a wider field of colonial science.