Book ID: CBB000083041

Science and spectacle: The work of Jodrell Bank in post-war British culture (1998)

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Agar, Jon E. (Author)


Harwood


Publication Date: 1998
Physical Details: xxi + 260 pp.; illus.; notes; bibl.; index

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Review DeVorkin, D. (1999) Review of "Science and spectacle: The work of Jodrell Bank in post-war British culture". History and Technology (pp. 105-8). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Loveli, Bernard
Agar, Jon E.
Zijlstra, Albert A.
Yates, David M.
Sheail, John
Owen, Kenneth
Journals
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Technology and Culture
Southern History: A Review of the History of Southern England
Social Studies of Science
Science
Medical History
Publishers
University of Kent (UK)
Science Museum
Praeger
Oxford University Press
MIT Press
Harwood Academic
Concepts
Research institutes; research stations
Astronomy
Radio astronomy
Telescopes
Scientists
Technology and war; technology and the military
People
Lovell, Alfred Charles Bernard
Tansley, Arthur George
Tyndall, Arthur Mannering
Newman, George
Eckersley, Thomas Lydwell
Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
Places
British Isles
Great Britain
United States
Institutions
Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories, Jodrell Bank
Nature Conservancy, Great Britain
National Physical Laboratory (Great Britain)
University of Bristol
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