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Category : Engineering instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Instruments, Industrial, Scientific
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Instruments, Industrial, Scientific
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Making Scientific Instruments in the Industrial Revolution
Author: A.D. Morrison-LowPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135192074X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
At the start of the Industrial Revolution, it appeared that most scientific instruments were made and sold in London, but by the time of the Great Exhibition in 1851, a number of provincial firms had the self-confidence to exhibit their products in London to an international audience. How had this change come about, and why? This book looks at the four main, and two lesser, English centres known for instrument production outside the capital: Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield, along with the older population centres in Bristol and York. Making wide use of new sources, Dr Morrison-Low, curator of history of science at the National Museums of Scotland, charts the growth of these centres and provides a characterisation of their products. New information is provided on aspects of the trade, especially marketing techniques, sources of materials, tools and customer relationships. From contemporary evidence, she argues that the principal output of the provincial trade (with some notable exceptions) must have been into the London marketplace, anonymously, and at the cheaper end of the market. She also discusses the structure and organization of the provincial trade, and looks at the impact of new technology imported from other closely-allied trades. By virtue of its approach and subject matter the book considers aspects of economic and business history, gender and the family, the history of science and technology, material culture, and patterns of migration. It contains a myriad of stories of families and firms, of entrepreneurs and customers, and of organizations and arms of government. In bringing together this wide range of interests, Dr Morrison-Low enables us to appreciate how central the making, selling and distribution of scientific instruments was for the Industrial Revolution.
The Competitive Strength of U.S. Industrial Science and Technology
Author: National Science Board (U.S.). Committee on Industrial Support for R&D.Publisher:
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Category : Competition, International
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science
Author: Advancing Ocean Observing Technology and Industry - Science Partnerships for the Future of Ocean Science
Author: Ole MikkelsenPublisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2889744035
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Benchmarking Industry-Science Relationships
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264175105
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This report presents an in-depth comparative study of Industry-Science Relationships (ISR) in France and the United Kingdom and a special chapter on Japan.
Instrumentation Between Science, State and Industry
Author: B. JoergesPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401090327
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
these. In this book, we appropriate their conception of research-technology, and ex tend it to many other phenomena which are less stable and less localized in time and space than the Zeeman/Cotton situation. In the following pages, we use the concept for instances where research activities are orientated primarily toward technologies which facilitate both the production of scientific knowledge and the production of other goods. In particular, we use the tenn for instances where instruments and meth ods· traverse numerous geographic and institutional boundaries; that is, fields dis tinctly different and distant from the instruments' and methods' initial focus. We suggest that instruments such as the ultra-centrifuge, and the trajectories of the men who devise such artefacts, diverge in an interesting way from other fonns of artefacts and careers in science, metrology and engineering with which students of science and technology are more familiar. The instrument systems developed by re search-technologists strike us as especially general, open-ended, and flexible. When tailored effectively, research-technology instruments potentially fit into many niches and serve a host of unrelated applications. Their multi-functional character distin guishes them from many other devices which are designed to address specific, nar rowly defined problems in a circumscribed arena in and outside of science. Research technology activities link universities, industry, public and private research or me trology establishments, instrument-making finns, consulting companies, the military, and metrological agencies. Research-technology practitioners do not follow the career path of the traditional academic or engineering professional.
Scientific Instruments between East and West
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004412840
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Scientific Instruments between East and West is a collection of essays on the transmission of knowledge about scientific instruments and the trade in such instruments between the Eastern and Western worlds.
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