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Engineering Empires - A Cultural History of Technology in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Paperback, New Ed)
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Engineering Empires - A Cultural History of Technology in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Paperback, New Ed)
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Engineers are empire-builders. James Watt, Isambard Kingdom Brunel,
Robert Stephenson and a host of lesser known figures worked to
build and expand personal and business empires of material
technology founded on and sustained by durable networks of trust
and expertise. In so doing these engineers and their heirs also
became active agents of political and economic empire. Indeed,
steamships, railways and electric telegraph systems increasingly
complemented one another to form what one early twentieth-century
telegraph engineer aptly termed "our most powerful weapon in the
cause of Inter-Imperial Commerce." This book provides a fascinating
exploration of the cultural construction of the large-scale
technologies of empire.
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