The Nature of Technological Knowledge. Are Models of Scientific Change Relevant?, L. Laudan

Автор: Grundmann
Название: The Power of Scientific Knowledge
ISBN: 1107606721 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107606722
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: It is often said that knowledge is power, but what factors determine the success of scientific research in influencing policy? This book uses a comparative and historical perspective to examine how political decisions relate to scientific knowledge and in what sense we can actually speak of the power of knowledge.

Автор: Kostas Gavroglu
Название: History of Artificial Cold, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Issues
ISBN: 9402400168 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789402400168
Издательство: Springer
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Foreword.- About the Authors.- Table Of Contents.- The History of Artificial Cold -Historiographical issues; Kostas Gavroglu.- Investigating the Very Cold.- Early modern history of cold: Robert Boyle and the emergence of a new experimental field in 17th century experimental philosophy; Christiana Christopoulou.- James Dewar and the Road to the Liquefaction of Hydrogen; Sir John S. Rowlinson.- The cryogenic laboratory of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes: an early case of Big Science; Dirk van Delft.- Superconductivity-a challenge to modern physics; Christian Joas and Georges Waysand.- Superfluidity: how quantum mechanics became visible; Sйbastien Balibar.- The physics of cold in the Cold War: "On-line computing" between the ICBM program and superconductivity; Johannes Knolle and Christian Joas.- Industries of Cold.- Domestic Ice-Making Machines 1830-1930; Simon Reif-Acherman.- Carl Linde and his relationship with Georges Claude: The cooperation between two independent inventors in cryogenics and its side effects; Hans-Liudger Dienel.- Meeting Artificial Cold: Expositions and Refrigeration, 1896-1937; Guillaume de Syon.- Consuming Cold.- The introduction of frozen foods in West Germany and its integration into the daily diet; Ulrike Thoms.- The Means of Modernization: Freezing Technologies and the Cultural Politics of Everyday Life, Norway 1940-1965; Terje Finstad.- The Invention of Refrigerated Transport and the Development of the International Dressed Meat Trade; Jonathan Rees.- 'Fresher than fresh'. Remarks on consumer attitudes towards the development of the Cold Chain in post-WWII Greece; Faidra Papanelopoulou.- Index.

Автор: Brose Eric Dorn
Название: The Politics of Technological Change in Prussia: Out of the Shadow of Antiquity, 1809-1848
ISBN: 0691604789 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691604787
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Throughout the 1800s the process of industrialization contributed to painful social upheaval and wrenching political readjustments in the Kingdom of Prussia, traditionally viewed as Europe`s great, modernizing, economic leader. This book illuminates the early years of this transition by examining the contradictory economic policies adopted by the s

Автор: Link
Название: Technological Change and Economic Performance
ISBN: 1138811270 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138811270
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Reviews of the literature on historical and theoretical developments of technology and economic growth including productivity measures, technical knowledge, technological spillovers and stock market reactions to technology investment.