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Assistants to Enlightenment: William Lewis, Alexander Chisholm and Invisible Technicians in the Industrial Revolution (2008)

Stewart, Larry R. (Author)

Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Volume: 62
Pages: 17--29

Publication Date: 2008
Edition Details: Part of a special issue: “Technicians”
Language: English

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Chemistry Crafts and craftspeople Laboratory technicians Industrial revolution Laboratories Laboratory techniques and procedures 18th century Wedgwood, Josiah

Artisans, assistants and technicians in laboratories remain largely anonymous amid the rapidly expanding experimental practice of the eighteenth century. Where their activities can be traced, it is apparent that the binary conceptions of scholar and craftsman, of philosopher and practitioner, hardly held during the first industrial revolution. Who actually did the work in the early-modern laboratory remains an important issue. In the case explored in this article, William Lewis, chemical lecturer, and Josiah Wedgwood, pottery manufacturer, both employed the skill and expertise of Alexander Chisholm. Chisholm moved among industrial innovators, gathering the knowledge of workmen, and promoted the experimental method ultimately employed in the Wedgwood manufactory.

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Description On Alexander Chisholm's work with William Lewis and Josiah Wedgwood and the workmans' knowledge and experimental method he brought with him.

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Article Iliffe, Rob (2008) Introduction: Technicians. Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (p. 3). unapi

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