Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 317 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9780262359481
Series Statement:
Transformations: studies in the history of science and technology
Content:
The relationship of the current technosciences and the older engineering sciences, examined through the history of the "useful" sciences in Prussia.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Big Picture -- Useful Science -- Scientific-Technological Experts -- Prussia's Industrialization -- Industrial Policy -- Structure of the Book -- I: Technical Experts and Innovation in Prussia -- 1. Technical Projects of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences -- Projects on Forestry and Cultivation of Plants -- Achard's Invention of Beet Sugar -- Transformation of the Academic Laboratory into a Sugar Factory -- Equipment of the Laboratory -- 2. Discovery and Invention: Klaproth -- What Is Pitchblende? -- Chemical Analysis -- The Discovery of a New Substance -- "Uranium Yellow" for the KPM -- The Emergence of Chemical Mineralogy -- 3. Pharmacy and Chemistry -- Challenging Chemical Remedies -- Chemical-Pharmaceutical Education and Training -- Chemical-Pharmaceutical Journals -- 4. Experts at the Royal Prussian Porcelain Manufactory -- Experts in a System of Division of Labor -- Early Practices -- Reorganization of the KPM -- Chemical Instruction of Laboratory Workers -- Improvements of the Laboratory -- Work of Invention -- Quantitative Chemical Analysis -- Experiments on "Vital Air" with Alexander von Humboldt -- Continuity of Chemical Training -- 5. The Figure of Technical Expert -- II: The Model: Useful Science at Mining Academies -- 6. Silver Mining and the Freiberg Mining Academy -- Division of Labor: Technical Officials -- Mining Councilors and Mining Masters -- The Freiberg Mining Academy -- The Cameralist Discourse: Mining Science and Mining Scholars -- Geology in the Context of Mining: Werner -- Usefulness of Geognosy -- Werner: A Scientific-Technological Expert -- 7. Mining and Mining Experts in Prussia: Gerhard -- Gerhard's First Inspection in Silesia -- The Second Inspection Trip: Prospecting -- Gerhard's Report to the Academy of Sciences.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780262539296
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Klein, Ursula, 1952 - Technoscience in history Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2020 ISBN 9780262539296
Language:
English
Keywords:
Technologie
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Preußen
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Geschichte 1750-1850
Author information:
Klein, Ursula 1952-
