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