Robert Bud

Applied Science

Knowledge, Modernity, and Britain's Public Realm

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Robert Bud explores the rise and fall of 'applied science' as a class of scientific thought and practice. UK focussed, the study has international implications. Over two centuries, lay actors and scientists interacted through politics, stories and institutions to shape a category that would eventually fade in favour of 'technology'"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9781009365239
• ISBN-10: 1009365231
• Artikelnr.: 68747850

Autorenporträt

Robert Bud is Emeritus Keeper at London's Science Museum. He has led science, medicine, and curatorial research at the Museum, writing and editing books across chemical, biotechnological, and scientific instrument history.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the biography of a concept
Stage 1. Origins and Pedagogy in the Nineteenth Century
1. Applied science conceived: the early nineteenth century
2. Applied science Institutionalised: the Liberal Science College
3. Competing concepts of applied science and technology
Stage 2. Research in the Early Twentieth Century
4. The dawn of the twentieth century
5. From the magi to industrial function
6. 'Western civilisation' and applied science
Stage 3. After World War Two
7. Co-existence through growth
8. From applied science to technological innovation
Conclusion.