The Journal of the Trevithick Society [No. 32].
Author : Trevithick Society
Publisher :
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 19,29 MB
Release : 2005
Category :
ISBN : 9780904040616
Author : Trevithick Society
Publisher :
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 19,29 MB
Release : 2005
Category :
ISBN : 9780904040616
Author : Trevithick Society
Publisher :
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,18 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Technology
ISBN :
Author : Stephen H. Haber
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 22,9 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 019757615X
This essay is the introduction to a book of the same title, forthcoming in summer of 2021 from Oxford University Press. The purpose is to document the ways in which patent systems are products of battles over the economic surplus from innovation. The features of these systems take shape as interests at different points in the production chain seek advantage in any way they can, and consequently, they are riven with imperfections. The interesting historical question is why US-style patent systems with all their imperfections have come to dominate other methods of encouraging inventive activity. The essays in the book suggest that the creation of a tradable but temporary property right facilitates the transfer of technological knowledge and thus fosters a highly productive decentralized ecology of inventors and firms.
Author : Sue Appleby
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 45,22 MB
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1805148893
“Cornwall has for centuries been the source of migrants to all parts of the world. This has generated a broad literature on Cornish emigration and the Cornish abroad, much of it concentrated on the better-known destinations of the USA, Australia, and South Africa; related to the international mining industry of the 19th century; and dominated by men and their stories. Appleby breaks the mould by examining the lives of female indentured servants, wives of mariners, miners, and missionaries, and ‘ladies of quality’, who, for many different reasons, spent time in the Caribbean. There has been a gathering tide of research and literature into the lives of Cornish women in recent years but, so far, less work has concentrated on the women of the Cornish diaspora, so this new book is a very welcome addition to that literature.” Dr Lesley Trotter, Honorary Research Fellow, Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter. Wives - Mothers - Daughters - Widows is the first book to examine the lives of Cornish women who left their homes to spend time in the Caribbean colonies.
Author : Graham Hollister-Short
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 29,42 MB
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1350018937
The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them, form the concern of this annual collection of essays. History of Technology, Volume 22 deals with the history of technical discovery and change and explores the relation of technology to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic - and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.Published under the auspices of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London
Author : Diane Sasson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 32,73 MB
Release : 2012-05-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0253001773
This is a biography of an unconventional female journalist, editor, author, and lecturer in late nineteenth-century America who became involved in progressive women's causes, vegetarianism, and Theosophy.
Author : Nicholas J. Wyatt
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 20,60 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Technology
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Author : Justin McHenry
Publisher : Feral House
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 17,19 MB
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1627311513
Is Lemuria a real place or the fever dream of crackpots, mystics, conspiracy theorists, and Bigfoot hunters? Below the waters where the Pacific and Indian Oceans lies a lost continent. One of hopes and dreams that housed a race of beings that arrived from foreign planets and from which sprang humanity, religion, civilization, and our modern world. It was called Lemuria and it was all fake. What began as a theoretical land bridge to explain the mystery of lemurs on Madagascar quickly got hijacked to become the evolutionary home of humankind, the cradle of spirituality, and then the source of cosmological wonders. Abandoned by science as hokum, Lemuria morphed into a land filled with ancient, advanced civilizations, hollowed-out mountains full of gold and crystals, moon-beings descending in baskets, underground evil creatures, and a breast-feeding Bigfoot. The history of Lemuria is populated with a dizzying array of people from early Darwinists to conspiracy spouting Congressmen, globetrotting madams, Rosicrucians, Hollow-Earthers, sci-fi writers, UFO contactees, sleeping prophets, New Age channelers, a “Mother God”, and a tequila swigging conspiracy theorist. Historian Justin McHenry provides a thoughtful exploration of how pseudo-science hijacked the gentle Victorian-era concept of Lemuria and, in following decades, twisted it into an all-encompassing home for alternative ideas about race, spirituality, science, politics, and the paranormal.
Author : Roger Burt
Publisher : University of Exeter Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 29,11 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Reference
ISBN :
Author : Alfred Rupert Hall
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,52 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Technology
ISBN :