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'Imitations of God's Own Works': Making Trustworthy the Ocean Steamship
Autor: Ian N. Higginson, Crosbie Smith, Phillip Wolstenholme
Publikováno v: History of Science. 41:379-426
“?… may we not say in the words of Bacon? — ‘The introduction of new inventions seemeth to be the very chief of all human actions. The benefits of new inventions may extend to all mankind universally, but the good of political achievements ca
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https://doi.org/10.1177/007327530304100402
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'Avoiding Equally Extravagance and Parsimony': The Moral Economy of the Ocean Steamship
Autor: Ian N. Higginson, Phillip Wolstenholme, Crosbie Smith
Publikováno v: Technology and Culture. 44:443-469
Founded by the brothers Alfred and Philip Henry Holt in 1865, the Ocean Steam Ship Company of Liverpool (better known as the Blue Funnel Line) has been widely celebrated by maritime historians and historians of marine engineering as the line which in
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https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2003.0134
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Consuming energies: Henry Adams and 'the tyranny of thermodynamics'
Autor: Ian N. Higginson, Crosbie Smith
Publikováno v: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. 26:103-111
In the closing decade of the nineteenth century, the American historian and descendent of two US presidents Henry Adams identified what he and his circle saw as the most dramatic historical change of the century and one laden with consequences for th
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https://doi.org/10.1179/isr.2001.26.2.103
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‘A magnified piece of thermodynamics’: the Promethean iconography of the refrigerator in Paul Theroux's The Mosquito Coast
Autor: Ian N. Higginson, Crosbie Smith
Publikováno v: The British Journal for the History of Science. 32:325-342
Refrigeration has become so well established over the last 125 years that today a crude ice maker becomes a boon for primitive people in the jungle or desert. Only a total dislocation in energy sources will quickly loosen the connections between peop
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https://doi.org/10.1017/s000708749900374x
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Jack London's Klondike speculation: capitalist critique and the sled as heterotopia in The call of the wild
Autor: Ian N. Higginson
Publikováno v: Polar Record. 34:317-332
In 1903 Jack London (1876–1916) wrote The call of the wild. This deceptively complex adventure novel concealed the author's vision and critique of a ‘Southland’ society ensnared in a system of capitalism. To reveal the limits of capitalist cons
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https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400026024
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The first Antarctic voyage of Edgar Allan Poe
Autor: Ian N. Higginson
Publikováno v: Polar Record. 30:287-298
The Palmer-Pendleton sealing and exploring expedition (1829–1831) was the first American voyage of discovery to the Antarctic that had official government sanction. For the writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), this expedition was an important land
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https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400024554
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