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Author Cardwell, Donald

Title The Development of Science and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Britain : the Importance of Manchester
Published Milton : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (329 pages)
Series Routledge Revivals
Routledge revivals.
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Donald Stephen Lowell Cardwell -- Select Bibliography -- SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION -- I The Development of Scientific Research in Modern Universities: a Comparative Study of Motives and Opportunities -- II Reflections on Some Problems in the History of Science -- III The Academic Study of the History of Technology -- IV Science, Technology and Industry -- V The Two-Way Mirror -- POWER TECHNOLOGIES, THERMODYNAMICS AND ELECTRICITY
VI Power Technologies & Advance of Science, 1700-1825VII Power and Textiles in the Industrial Revolution -- VIII Thermodynamics and Practical Engineering in the Nineteenth Century -- IX Science and Technology: the Work of James Prescott Joule -- X Science and the Steam Engine in the Early Nineteenth Century Reconsidered -- XI Industry, Thermodynamics and Society in the Nineteenth Century -- XII Steam Engine Theory in the 19th Century: from Duty to Thermal Efficiency; from Parkes to Sankey -- XIII On Michael Faraday, Henry Wilde, and the Dynamo
THE IMPORTANCE OF MANCHESTERXIV Science and the European Tragedies -- XV The Patronage of Science in Nineteenth-Century Manchester -- XVI Two Centuries of the Manchester Lit. & Phil. -- XVII They Made Manchester -- XVIII Thoughts on Voluntary Scientific Societies from the Time of de Megalhaes to the Present Day -- Index of People
Summary "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
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Subject Science -- England -- Manchester -- History -- 19th century
Technology -- England -- Manchester -- History -- 19th century
Intellectual life
Science
Technology
SUBJECT Manchester (England) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Subject England -- Manchester
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Hills, Richard L
ISBN 9781351728843
1351728849