The Development of Science and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Subtitle: the Importance of Manchester
Contributors: Hills, Richard L.
Series: Routledge Revivals; Routledge revivals
Publisher: Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Milton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9781351728843
Subjects: Science; History; Technology; Intellectual life; Sciences; Histoire; Technologie
Description: "This title was first published in 2003. Donald Cardwell's interest in the inter-relationships between science, technology, education and society are exemplified in the selection of his studies and essays brought together here. The first section deals with the rise of scientific education in Britain, comparing it with that on the Continent. The next studies explore the development of the scientific understanding of power, especially steam power, and its application in the new technologies of the Industrial Revolution. The final section looks at learned societies, and in particular at Manchester, making explicit a theme running through many of the articles - the reasons why science, society and education came together to make this city what he called 'the centre of the industrial revolution'."--Provided by publisher
Table of contents: title: Cover; title: Half Title; title: Title; title: Copyright; title: Contents; title: Foreword; title: Acknowledgements; title: Donald Stephen Lowell Cardwell; title: Select Bibliography; title: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION; title: I The Development of Scientific Research in Modern Universities: a Comparative Study of Motives and Opportunities; title: II Reflections on Some Problems in the History of Science; title: III The Academic Study of the History of Technology; title: IV Science, Technology and Industry; title: V The Two-Way Mirror; title: POWER TECHNOLOGIES, THERMODYNAMICS AND ELECTRICITY; title: VI Power Technologies & Advance of Science, 1700-1825VII Power and Textiles in the Industrial Revolution; title: VIII Thermodynamics and Practical Engineering in the Nineteenth Century; title: IX Science and Technology: the Work of James Prescott Joule; title: X Science and the Steam Engine in the Early Nineteenth Century Reconsidered; title: XI Industry, Thermodynamics and Society in the Nineteenth Century; title: XII Steam Engine Theory in the 19th Century: from Duty to Thermal Efficiency; from Parkes to Sankey; title: XIII On Michael Faraday, Henry Wilde, and the Dynamo; title: THE IMPORTANCE OF MANCHESTERXIV Science and the European Tragedies; title: XV The Patronage of Science in Nineteenth-Century Manchester; title: XVI Two Centuries of the Manchester Lit. & Phil.; title: XVII They Made Manchester; title: XVIII Thoughts on Voluntary Scientific Societies from the Time of de Megalhaes to the Present Day; title: Index of People