Heroes of invention : technology, liberalism and British identity, 1750-1914 / Christine MacLeod.
Pubblicazione:
Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2007.
Descrizione fisica:
XV, 458 p. ; 24 cm
Serie:
Cambridge studies in economic history
Contiene:
Indice: Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. List of illustrations. 1. Introduction: Inventors and other heroes 2. The new Prometheus 3. The inventor's progress 4. The apotheosis of James Watt 5. Watt, inventor of the industrial revolution 6. What's Watt? The radical critique 7. The technological pantheon 8. Heroes of the Pax Britannica 9. Debating the patent system 10. The workers' heroes 11. Maintaining the industrial spirit 12. Science and the disappearing inventor. Epilogue: the Victorian legacy. Bibliography. Index
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