The Development of Science and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Britain
The Importance of Manchester
Description:... "Cover"--"Half Title"--"Title" -- "Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "Foreword" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Donald Stephen Lowell Cardwell" -- "Select Bibliography" -- "SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION" -- "I The Development of Scientific Research in Modern Universities: a Comparative Study of Motives and Opportunities" -- "II Reflections on Some Problems in the History of Science" -- "III The Academic Study of the History of Technology" -- "IV Science, Technology and Industry" -- "V The Two-Way Mirror" -- "POWER TECHNOLOGIES, THERMODYNAMICS AND ELECTRICITY" -- "VI Power Technologies & Advance of Science, 1700-1825" -- "VII Power and Textiles in the Industrial Revolution" -- "VIII Thermodynamics and Practical Engineering in the Nineteenth Century" -- "IX Science and Technology: the Work of James Prescott Joule" -- "X Science and the Steam Engine in the Early Nineteenth Century Reconsidered" -- "XI Industry, Thermodynamics and Society in the Nineteenth Century" -- "XII Steam Engine Theory in the 19th Century: from Duty to Thermal Efficiency -- from Parkes to Sankey" -- "XIII On Michael Faraday, Henry Wilde, and the Dynamo" -- "THE IMPORTANCE OF MANCHESTER" -- "XIV Science and the European Tragedies" -- "XV The Patronage of Science in Nineteenth-Century Manchester" -- "XVI Two Centuries of the Manchester Lit. & Phil." -- "XVII They Made Manchester" -- "XVIII Thoughts on Voluntary Scientific Societies from the Time of de Megalhaes to the Present Day" -- "Index of People
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