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Colonial Technology - Science and the Transfer of Innovation to Australia (Hardcover, New)
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Colonial Technology - Science and the Transfer of Innovation to Australia (Hardcover, New)
Series: Studies in Australian History
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Technological Change is at the heart of much industrial and
economic development, but the conversion of scientific and
technical research into economic success stories is not automatic.
Australia has always imported overseas technology, largely out of
necessity, but has this been exploitative, fostering a relationship
of dependence, or used to Australia's advantage? This book explores
such questions in the context of nineteenth-century Australian
science. In her important study, Jan Todd argues that the situation
was far more complex than has been widely acknowledged. In the
context of on-going debates, she shows that technology systems
reflect national characteristics, institutions and priorities,
drawing general conclusions about Australian science and technology
in an imperial context. Much of the book is devoted to two
fascinating cases of technology transfer, that is, importing
technology from one country to another. The first looks at the
transfer of anthrax vaccination, a French innovation, into the
pastoral industry, mainly in New South Wales. The second considers
the transfer of the cyanide process of gold extraction, which
originated in Britain, into the mining industry across Australia.
In both cases, considering a range of economic, political and
cultural factors, she traces a process of creative adaptation to
these technologies.
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