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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenaeum
Author: Boston Athenaeum
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 738
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 738
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Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenæum
Author: Boston Athenaeum
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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Catalogue ... 1807-1871
Author: Boston Mass, Athenaeum, libr
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Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Catalogue of the Books in the Dundee Free Library ... Lending Department. Compiled by R. N. Watson
Author: DUNDEE. Public Libraries
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Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Languages : en
Pages : 326
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The Boston Book Company's Check-list of American and English Periodicals
Author: Boston Book Company
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Progressive Enlightenment
Author: Leslie Tomory
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262016753
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 361
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An argument that the gas industry was the first integrated large-scale technological network and that it signaled a new wave of industrial innovation. In Progressive Enlightenment, Leslie Tomory examines the origins of the gaslight industry, from invention to consolidation as a large integrated urban network. Tomory argues that gas was the first integrated large-scale technological network, a designation usually given to the railways. He shows how the first gas network was constructed and stabilized through the introduction of new management structures, the use of technical controls, and the application of means to constrain the behavior of the users of gas lighting. Tomory begins by describing the contributions of pneumatic chemistry and industrial distillation to the development of gas lighting, then explores the bifurcation between the Continental and British traditions in distillation technology. He examines the establishment and consolidation of the new industry by the Birmingham firm Boulton & Watt, and describes the deployment of the network strategy by the entrepreneur Frederick Winsor. Tomory argues that the gas industry represented a new wave of technological innovation in industry because of its dependence on formal scientific research, its need for large amounts of capital, and its reliance on business organization beyond small firms and partnerships--all of which signaled a departure from the artisanal nature and limited deployment of inventions earlier in the Industrial Revolution. Gas lighting was the first important realization of the Enlightenment dream of science in the service of industry.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262016753
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 361
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An argument that the gas industry was the first integrated large-scale technological network and that it signaled a new wave of industrial innovation. In Progressive Enlightenment, Leslie Tomory examines the origins of the gaslight industry, from invention to consolidation as a large integrated urban network. Tomory argues that gas was the first integrated large-scale technological network, a designation usually given to the railways. He shows how the first gas network was constructed and stabilized through the introduction of new management structures, the use of technical controls, and the application of means to constrain the behavior of the users of gas lighting. Tomory begins by describing the contributions of pneumatic chemistry and industrial distillation to the development of gas lighting, then explores the bifurcation between the Continental and British traditions in distillation technology. He examines the establishment and consolidation of the new industry by the Birmingham firm Boulton & Watt, and describes the deployment of the network strategy by the entrepreneur Frederick Winsor. Tomory argues that the gas industry represented a new wave of technological innovation in industry because of its dependence on formal scientific research, its need for large amounts of capital, and its reliance on business organization beyond small firms and partnerships--all of which signaled a departure from the artisanal nature and limited deployment of inventions earlier in the Industrial Revolution. Gas lighting was the first important realization of the Enlightenment dream of science in the service of industry.
A Check-list of American and English Periodicals
Author: Boston Book Company
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Catalogue of the Scientific Serial Literature in the ... Libraries in Sydney, N.S.W. ...
Author: Thomas Peter Anderson Stuart
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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A Catalogue of Miscellaneous Books, ancient and modern, for 1837-8, on sale ... by R. Baldock
Author: Robert BALDOCK
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Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Languages : en
Pages : 62
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