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Scientific Credibility and Technical Standards
Jed Z. (California Institute Of Technology) . Ed(S): Buchwald
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Description for Scientific Credibility and Technical Standards
Paperback. Contains articles which explicitly and intentionally cross boundaries between science and technology, and illuminate one another. This volume argues that we must begin to think about the role that science actually did play when it was explicitly deployed by technologists. Editor(s): Buchwald, Jed Z. (California Institute of Technology). Series: Archimedes. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: P; TB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 630.
The articles in this first volume of ARCHIMEDES explicitly and intentionally cross boundaries between science and technology, and they also illuminate one another. The first three contributions concern optics and industry in 19th century Germany; the fourth concerns electric standards in Germany during the same period; the last essay in the volume examines a curious development in the early history of wireless signalling that took place in England, and that has much to say about the establishment and enforcement of standard methods in a rapidly-developing technology that emerged out of a ... Read more
The articles in this first volume of ARCHIMEDES explicitly and intentionally cross boundaries between science and technology, and they also illuminate one another. The first three contributions concern optics and industry in 19th century Germany; the fourth concerns electric standards in Germany during the same period; the last essay in the volume examines a curious development in the early history of wireless signalling that took place in England, and that has much to say about the establishment and enforcement of standard methods in a rapidly-developing technology that emerged out of a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
182
Condition
New
Series
Archimedes
Number of Pages
182
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792347620
SKU
V9780792347620
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99-15
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