{"product_id":"9780792347620","title":"Archimedes: In 19th and Early 20th Century Germany and Britain","description":"\u003ch1\u003eArchimedes: In 19th and Early 20th Century Germany and Britain\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eBuchwald, Jed Z.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe articles in this first volume of \u003cem\u003eARCHIMEDES\u003c\/em\u003e  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 scientific effect. Historical work over the last few decades has  shown that technology cannot be characterized simply, or even usually,  as applied science. The beliefs, the devices, and the natural objects  that are created or discovered by scientists, often play altogether  minor roles in the construction of technologies. Taking this  realization as a given, the essays in \u003cem\u003eScientific Credibility and\u003c\/em\u003e  \u003cem\u003eTechnical Standards\u003c\/em\u003e effectively argue that we must now seek to  go beyond it; we must also begin to think carefully about the role  that science actually did play when it was explicitly deployed by  technologists.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 1996-11-05\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9780792347620\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-94-009-1784-2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 182\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Netherlands","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44499544211596,"sku":"9780792347620","price":49.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780792347620.jpg?v=1776429460","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9780792347620","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}