Science, technology, and economic growth in the eighteenth century.
By: Edited with an introd. by A. E. Musson.
Series: Debates in economic history
Publisher: Methuen
Published: 1972
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: Industries -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Technological innovations -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Science -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Notes: "Distributed in the U.S.A. by Barnes & Noble."
Table of contents: title: Who unbound Prometheus? Science and technical change, 1600-1800, by P. Mathias.; title: The diffusion of technology in Great Britain during the Industrial Revolution, by A. E. Musson.; title: Some statistics of the Industrial Revolution in Britain, by T. S. Ashton.; title: The natural history of industry, by C. C. Gillispie.; title: The industrial orientation of science in the Lunar Society of Birmingham, by R. E. Schofield.; title: Vitriol in the Industrial Revolution, by A. Clow and N. L. Clow.; title: The Macintoshes and the origins of the chemical industry, by D. W. F. Hardie.; title: Bryan Higgins and his circle, by F. W. Gibbs.; title: Select bibliography (p. [208]-211)