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Improving Swedish Steelmaking: Circulation and Localized Knowledge-Making in Early Modernity (2023)

Måns Jansson (Author)
Rydén, Göran (Author)

Technology and Culture
Volume: 64
Issue: 2
Pages: 515-542
Publication date: 2023
Language: English

URI: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/893045

DOI: 10.1353/tech.2023.0060

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Metallurgy Development of technology; change in technology Knowledge circulation Crafts and craftspeople Steel and steel industry 18th century Sweden

This article explores the multicentered processes that transformed artisanal metalworking in early modern Europe. It does so through an in-depth analysis of the attempts to improve steelmaking in eighteenth-century Sweden. Scholarship has traditionally focused on progress in the British steel industry, but the quest for improvement in Sweden's expanding steel sector, integrating various forms of cross-border mobility, illustrates a more spatially and temporally diverse history of technological development. This case study underlines the need to consider a wider group of actors and practices in metallurgical advances and elucidates the interaction between statecraft, scientific inquiry, and artisanal work, thereby highlighting the work-related foundations for novel perceptions of economic and industrial progress.

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