Article ID: CBB445246378

Technological Nocturne: The Lisbon Industrial Institute and Romantic Engineering (1849–1888) (April 2017)

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This article explores technology as romantic culture in the second half of the nineteenth century. It details how new urban nocturnal experiences emerged from the Lisbon Industrial Institute (Instituto Industrial) founded in 1852. It combines the interest in the space of science production, typical of history of science and science studies, with the attention to production and consumption of lighting more commonly found in history of technology and urban history literature. Engineers' practices are put in a cultural continuum with poetry, opera, and modern city life at large. Industrial Institute directors Vitorino Damásio and Fonseca Benevides are described as romantic engineers for whom technology overcame differences between humans through the forging of new social bonds, produced new aesthetic experiences and new ways of feeling, expressed nature's harmony, and led to heroic lives.

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Authors & Contributors
Cardoso de Matos, Ana
Diogo, Maria Paula
Mota, Teresa Salomé
Ferreira Da Silva, Alvaro
Carneiro, Ana
Coeckelbergh, Mark
Concepts
Engineers
Technology and culture
Professions and professionalization
Technology and government
Engineering
Modernization
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
21st century
18th century
Places
Portugal
Lisbon (Portugal)
Spain
Paris (France)
Great Britain
Institutions
Museum of Science of the University of Lisbon
Royal Horticultural Society
Pulkovo Observatory
École des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris
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