Thesis ID: CBB001562110

The Making of Steam Power Technology: A Study of Technical Change during the British Industrial Revolution (2004)

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Nuvolari, Alessandro (Author)


Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (The Netherlands)


Publication Date: 2004
Physical Details: 218 pp.
Language: English

This book examines the process through which steam power first emerged and then grew into a major industrial technology over a period going approximately from the early eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century. The book traces in detail the evolution of the technology paying particular attention to the influence of the different economic and institutional contexts. The reconstruction of the history of steam engine technology is carried out by means of analytical tools that reflect some of the most recent developments in the economics of technical change. Besides providing an account of the formative period of a technology that constituted a critical foundation for the industrialization of western economies, the book illuminates a number of wider issues concerning the nature of innovation and economic change during the British Industrial Revolution.

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Description Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. C 65/04 (2004): 900. UMI pub. no. C818505.


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Authors & Contributors
Pertwee, Nicholas
Jun, Suzuki
Russell, Ben
Morrison-Low, A. D.
Wyke, Terry
William, Rosen
Concepts
Technology
Industrial revolution
Steam engines; steam turbines
Industrialization
Technological innovation
Development of technology; change in technology
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
20th century, early
17th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Birmingham (England)
England
Manchester (England)
New England (U.S.)
Institutions
Newcomen Society for the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology
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