Format:
1 online resource (274 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781441197658
Series Statement:
History of Technology Ser.
Content:
This book focuses on the development of four key issues in the development of modern Spain; knowledge, manufacturing, energy and telecommunications, and public works. If technology transfer from advanced nations to less developed systems always worked, then the whole world would now be rich. That this is not the case is so obvious, we might well expect that the history of the processes, successes and failures of technology transfer across nations would be a very well-established field of enquiry. In fact, the theme is still a developing one, and the present Special Issue centres on the case of Spain as exemplary in many respects. The collected essays focus upon the four major themes of knowledge, manufacturing, energy, and telecommunications and public works. Essays range in time from the 18th century to the present time, from studies of espionage and early links between craftsmen and savants, to the institutions of technology (from training systems, to private enterprise activity, or patents), to case-studies of silk manufacture, shipbuilding, mining, paper-making, and pharmaceuticals. Each essay offers a broad variety of material to bring to bear on a major problem of world development, past, present, and future.
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- The Contributors -- Overview. An Approach to the Historiography of Technology in Spain -- Introduction -- Origins of Spanish History of Technology -- New Orientation -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Knowledge -- 1. The Beginnings of Industrial Espionage in Spain (1748-1760) -- The Naval Spies: Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa -- A Failed Improvisation: Enrique Enriqui's Journey -- The Journey of the Four Artillery Officers -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2. Augustin Betancourt and Mining Technologies: From Almadén to St Petersbourg (1783-1824) -- Introduction -- Almadén -- École des Mines of Paris: A Missed Opportunity -- The Paris-Oviedo Axis -- Changing of Optics: The Cabinet of Machines -- Changing of Scale: Russia -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 3. The Beginnings of Mechanical Engineering in Spain: The Contribution of Francesc Santponç i Roca (Barcelona, 1756-1821) -- Some Preliminary Remarks on Mechanical Engineering in Spain -- Francesc Santponç i Roca: from Medicine to Mechanics -- Santponç's Research -- Teaching Mechanics -- The Gabinete de Máquinas of the Junta -- The Memorias de Agriculturay Artes -- The School of Santponç and Industrial Engineering in Spain -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 4. Patents, Sugar Technology and Sub-Imperial Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Cuba -- Introduction -- Sugar, Technology and Institutions -- The Metropolitan and Colonial Patent Systems in Nineteenth-Century Spain -- Crossing Empires: Foreign Patenting Activities in the CubanSugar Industry -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5. The Engineering Profession in Spain: From the Renaissance to Modern Times -- Between the 'Royal Engineers' and Distinguished Artisans: the Renaissance and Something More -- The Enlightenment and Its Legacy.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781441140111
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781441140111
Language:
English
