Description “English gardens in Berlin, however, contain a striking anomaly in comparison with those in England: They feature buildings that once housed steam engines. Focusing largely on these engine houses, the following account considers the gardens' role in transferring steam technology from England to Prussia. It shows how the gardens served aesthetically to integrate steam engines into Prussian culture by representing the engine in the vocabulary of past and present Prussian ideals and by identifying engine power with Prussian power. At the same time, it illustrates, using Hermann Helmholtz as exemplar, how the famous generation of scientists that emerged in Berlin at midcentury participated in this cultural projection.”
Book Galison, Peter; Thompson, Emily (1999) The architecture of science.
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