iCHSTM 2013 Programme • Version 5.3.6, 27 July 2013 • ONLINE (includes late changes)
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T181. Cultures of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science and engineering
Mon 22 July, 11:10–17:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.205
T181-A. Cultures of knowledge and practice
Mon 22 July, 11:10–12:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.205
Chair: Geoffrey Cantor | University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Patrick Nott | Retired, United Kingdom
John Milne - knowledge exchange: professessional amateur
Frank James | Royal Institution, United Kingdom
Humphry Davy at work
Edward Davis | University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
The legacy of Lord Rayleigh
Manabu Kobayashi | Chiba Institute of Technology, Japan
Davies Gilbert’s theory of heat and steam: the diffusion of scientific knowledge among scientists and engineers
T181-B. The machine
Mon 22 July, 14:10–15:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.205
Chair: Patrick Nott | Retired, United Kingdom
Amy Bix | Iowa State University, United States
Knowledge and imagination in the history of machine design: from Manchester reality to steampunk style
Alice Reininger | University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
Wolfgang von Kempelen’s steam engine and reaction engine
Matthew Paskins twitter | University College London, United Kingdom
Simple machines
Thomas Palmelund Johansen | Aarhus University, Denmark
Useful knowledge at work in the legitimation of machinery: Charles Knight as a ‘second-hand dealer in ideas’
T181-C. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science and engineering
Mon 22 July, 16:10–17:40 ▪ Uni Place 4.205
Chair: Julia Elton | Newcomen Society, United Kingdom
Matteo Corso | University of Cagliari, Italy
The lunar challenge: science, politics and social legitimation in eighteenth-century Birmingham
Kristen Schranz | University of Toronto, Canada
The successful Tipton Works of Mr Keir: networks of conversants, chemicals, canals and coalmines
Sayaka Oki twitter | Hiroshima University, Japan
River and canal works as a field of conflict for scientific expertise in eighteenth-century France: engineers, academicians and the state
Richard Byrom | University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom
Icons of the Victorian waterfront: the evolution, triumph and demise of the Fairbairn tubular crane, 1850-65
Location: University Place 4.205
Part of: University Place