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Author : Gertrude Ince Ziani De Ferranti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Life and Letters of Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti written by Gertrude Ince Ziani De Ferranti and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Graeme Gooday
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521430982
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Morals of Measurement written by Graeme Gooday and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Morals of Measurement is a contribution to the social histories of quantification and electrical technology in nineteenth-century Britain, Germany and France. It shows how the advent of commercial electrical lighting stimulated the industrialization of electrical measurement from a skilled labour-intensive activity to a mechanized practice. Challenging traditional accounts that focus on the metrological standards used in measurement, this book shows the central importance of trust when measurement was undertaken in an increasingly complex division of labour. Alongside ambiguities about the very nature of measurement and the respective responsibilities of humans and technologies in generating error-free numbers, the book also addresses controversies over the changing identity of the measurer through the themes of body, gender and authorship. The reader will gain fresh insights into a period when measurement was widely treated as the definitive means of gaining knowledge of the world.
Author : Josep Simon
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822981688
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Communicating Physics written by Josep Simon and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The textbooks written by Adolphe Ganot (1804-1887) played a major role in shaping the way physics was taught in the nineteenth century. Ganot's books were translated from their original French into more than ten languages, including English, allowing their adoption as standard works in Britain and spreading their influence as far as North America, Australia, India and Japan. Simon's Franco-British case study looks at the role of Ganot's two textbooks: Traite elementaire de physique experimentale et appliquee (1851) and Cours de physique purement experimentale (1859), and their translations into English by Edmund Atkinson. The study is novel for its international comparison of nineteenth-century physics, its acknowledgement of the role of book production on the impact of the titles, and for its emphasis on the role of communication in the making of science.
Author : Faidra Papanelopoulou
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317077911
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Popularizing Science and Technology in the European Periphery, 1800–2000 written by Faidra Papanelopoulou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 scientific genres and forums for presenting science in the public sphere are analysed, including botany and women, teaching and popularizing physics and thermodynamics, scientific theatres, national and international exhibitions, botanical and zoological gardens, popular encyclopaedias, popular medicine and astronomy, and genetics in the press. Each topic is situated firmly in its historical and geographical context, with local studies of developments in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Hungary, Denmark, Belgium and Sweden. Popularizing Science and Technology in the European Periphery provides us with a fascinating insight into the history of science in the public sphere and will contribute to a better understanding of the circulation of scientific knowledge.
Author : Norman R. Ball
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773509832
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Ferranti-Packard written by Norman R. Ball and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ferranti-Packard was one of Canada's earliest manufacturers to employ some of the most significant technologies of this century -- those involved in the production of electric power, automobiles, and computers. In this illustrated corporate history of Ferranti-Packard, Norman Ball and John Vardalas survey the research, development, design, and marketing decisions adopted by the company in an effort to commercialize these technologies in a North American market dominated by a few corporate giants.
Author : William Henry Bassano Court
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book British Economic History, 1700-1870 written by William Henry Bassano Court and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1971 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W.H.G. Armytage
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135031614
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Rise of the Technocrats written by W.H.G. Armytage and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2006. The ambitious role cast for scientists in public affairs has been matched by an equal coyness on the part of scientists to play it. Yet in spite of themselves, they have been virtually dragged on to the political stage because of their 'collectivities' - groups formed over the last four centuries often more fugitive than institutional - which have helped modify the human environment, thereby enabling men to emancipate themselves from the tyranny of the present and plan for the future. The byproducts of such plans, from the great botanical gardens to the seed beds of physical scientists like the Ecole Polytechnique, have also incubated further ideas about the relation of science and society that are ecumenical in scope. Indeed the positivist overtones of the Polytechnique herald the transition from platocracy to technocracy, for the technical intelligentsia trained its German, Russian and American counterparts have effected a quasi-religious synthesis of physics and politics. In this 'planning' was the central theme. The social history of such planning (with the concomitant views on the social organisation of science) is the subject of the book Pressurising it is the conviction that " we can identify a particular thing only by pointing to the various things it successively was before it became that particular thing that it will presently cease to be", and the story, which begins four hundred years ago and ends in 1964.
Author : Robert Monro Black
Publisher : IET
ISBN 13 : 9780863410017
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The History of Electric Wires and Cables written by Robert Monro Black and published by IET. This book was released on 1983 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lance Day
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134650205
Total Pages : 1527 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology written by Lance Day and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 1527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Biographical Dictionary seeks to put the world of technology in the context of those who have made the most important contribution to it. For the first time information has been gathered on the people who have made the most significant advances in technology. From ancient times to the present day, the major inventors, discoverers and entrepreneurs from around the world are profiled, and their contribution to society explained and assessed. Structure The Dictionary presents descriptive and analytical biographies of its subjects in alphabetical order for ease of reference. Each entry provides detailed information on the individual's life, work and relevance to their particular field. * in the first part of the entry, the information will include the dates and places of the subject's birth and death, together with their nationality and their field of activity * in the main body of the entry there follows an account of their principal achievements and their significance in the history of technology, along with full details of appointments and honours * finally an annotated bibliography will direct the reader to the subject's principal writings and publications and to the most important secondary works which the reader can consult for further information. Special Features: * The first work in existence to examine technologists in detail * Contains over 1,500 entries giving detailed information * Extensive cross-references enable the reader to compare subjects and build up a picture of technological advance^ * Figures drawn from fields such as Aeronautics, Telecommunications, Architecture, Photography and Textiles
Author : Crosbie Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521261739
Total Pages : 906 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Energy and Empire written by Crosbie Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-10-26 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Gavin Weightman
Publisher : Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 0857893009
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)
Download or read book Children of Light written by Gavin Weightman and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1870's a nighttime view over Britain would have revealed towns lit by the warm glow of gas and oil lamps and a much darker countryside, the only light emanating from the fiery sparks of late running steam trains. However, by the end of this same decade,Victorian Britons would experience a new brilliance in their streets, town halls, and other public places. Electricity had come to town. In Children of Light, Gavin Weightman brings to life not just the most celebrated electrical pioneers, such as Thomas Edison, but also the men such as Rookes Crompton who lit Henley Regatta in 1879; Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti, a direct descendant of one of the Venetian Doges, who built Britain's first major power station on the Thames at Deptford; and Anglo&–Irish aristocrat, Charles Parsons inventor of the steam turbine, which revolutionized the generating of electricity. Children of Light takes in the electrification of the tramways and the London Underground, the transformation of the home with "labor saving" devices, the vital modernizing of industry during two world wars, and the battles between environmentalists and the promoters of electric power, which began in earnest when the first pylons went up. As Children of Light shows, the electric revolution has brought us luxury that would have astonished the Victorians, but at a price we are still having to pay.
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. F. Wilson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719023699
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (236 download)
Download or read book Ferranti and the British Electrical Industry, 1864-1930 written by J. F. Wilson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul S. Myers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0750697490
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Knowledge Management and Organizational Design written by Paul S. Myers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1996 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 14 essays which discuss strategies organizations can utilize to manage internal knowledge effectively to enhance business performance.
Author : Paul S Myers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136389881
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Knowledge Management and Organisational Design written by Paul S Myers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in the readers' series called Resources for the Knowledge-Based Economy, Knowledge Management and Organizational Design is a unique compilation of articles and book excerpts that describe how the management of an organization shapes the levels of knowledge transfer, innovation and learning. The collection draws on fifty years of management thinking and presents key issues facing knowledge-intensive organizations. The selections are concise, clearly written and present a rich framework of examples drawn from real management experience. Arranged thematically, the chapters discuss decision-making, organization structure, innovation, strategic alliances, managing knowledge workers and power relations. Represented in this volume are the ideas of influential academics including the late economist Frederick Hayek and French sociologist Michael Crozier, as well as world-renowned management thinkers such as Harvard Business School Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Charles Handy.
Author : P. Kroes
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401580103
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Technological Development and Science in the Industrial Age written by P. Kroes and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians and philosophers of technology are searching for new approaches to the study of the interaction between science and technology. New conceptual frameworks are necessary since the idea that technology is simply applied science is nothing short of a myth. The papers contained in this volume deal primarily with cognitive and social aspects of the science-technology issue. One of the most salient features of these papers is that they show a major methodological shift in studying the interaction between science and technology. Discussions of the science-technology issue have long been dominated by the demarcartion problem and related semantic issues about the notions `science' and `technology', and the `technology is applied science' thesis. Instead of general `global' interpretation schemes and models of the interaction between science and technology, detailed empirical case studies of cognitive and institutional connections between `science' and `technology' constitute the hard core of this book. The book will be of interest to philosophers of science, historians and philosophers of technology and science and sociologists of science.
Author : Sir Francis Cowley Burnand
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Catholic Who's who and Yearbook written by Sir Francis Cowley Burnand and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
