Engineering Empires: A Cultural History of Technology in Nineteenth-Century Britain

✍ Scribed by Ben Marsden, Crosbie Smith (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 363
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Technology, Science and Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century....Pages 1-11
‘Objects of national importance’: Exploration, Mapping and Measurement....Pages 12-40
Power and Wealth: Reputations and Rivalries in Steam Culture....Pages 41-87
Belief in Steamers: Making Trustworthy the Iron Steamship....Pages 88-128
Building Railway Empires: Promises in Space and Time....Pages 129-177
‘The most gigantic electrical experiment’: The Trials of Telegraphy....Pages 178-225
Conclusion: Cultures of Technological Expertise....Pages 226-258
Back Matter....Pages 259-351

✦ Subjects

History of Science;Cultural History;History of Britain and Ireland;World History, Global and Transnational History;Modern History;History of Technology

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