Article ID: CBB000100551

John Richardson, saccharometry and the pounds-per-barrel extract: The construction of a quantity (2001)

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Description Focusing on 18th-century brewing theorist John Richardson and the pounds-per-barrel extract, a brewery-specific quantity, explores how physical quantities are contingent and are constructed and modified by users.


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Authors & Contributors
Sumner, James
Lunteren, Frans van
Carnino, Guillaume
Zarnkow, Martin
Wise, M. Norton
Teich, Mikuláš
Concepts
Technology
Measurement
Clocks and Watches
Steam engines; steam turbines
Nature
Information technology
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
Ancient
20th century, early
20th century
Places
Germany
Middle and Near East
Scotland
United States
Turkey
Ottoman Empire
Institutions
United States. National Bureau of Standards
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