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Engineering empires : : A cultural hisrory of technology in nineteeth-century britain / Ben Marsden, Crosbie Smith

Tác giả : Ben Marsden, Crosbie Smith

Nhà xuất bản : Palgrave Macmillan

Năm xuất bản : 2005

Nơi xuất bản : New York

Mô tả vật lý : xi, 351 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

ISBN : 0333772784

Số phân loại : 306.460941

Chủ đề : 1. Technology -- Social aspects -- Great Britain. 2. Kỹ thuật Anh. 3. Tổ chức văn hoá đặc biệt.

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Engineers are empire-builders. James Watt, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Robert Stephenson and a host of lesser known figures worked to build and expand personal and business empires of material technology founded on and sustained by durable networks of trust and expertise. In so doing these engineers and their heirs also became active agents of political and economic empire. Indeed, steamships, railways and electric telegraph systems increasingly complemented one another to form what one early twentieth-century telegraph engineer aptly termed 'our most powerful weapon in the cause of Inter-Imperial Commerce'. This book provides a fascinating exploration of the cultural construction of the large-scale technologies of empire.

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