How Scientific Instruments Have Changed Hands
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| Title: | How Scientific Instruments Have Changed Hands |
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| Description: | This collection of essays discusses the marketing of scientific and medical instruments from the eighteenth century to the First World War. The evidence presented here is derived from sources as diverse as contemporary trade literature, through newspaper advertisements, to rarely-surviving inventories, and from the instruments themselves. The picture may not yet be complete, but it has been acknowledged that it is more complex than sketched out twenty-five or even fifty years ago. Here is a collection of case-studies from the United Kingdom, the Americas and Europe showing instruments moving from maker to market-place, and, to some extent, what happened next. Contributors are: Alexi Baker, Paolo Brenni, Laura Cházaro, Gloria Clifton, Peggy Aldrich Kidwell, Richard L. Kremer, A.D. Morrison-Low, Joshua Nall, Sara J. Schechner, and Liba Taub. |
| Authors: | A.D. Morrison-Low, Sara J. Sechner, Paolo Brenni |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Scientific apparatus and instruments--History--19th century, Scientific apparatus and instruments--History--18th century, Scientific apparatus and instruments--Marketing--History, Scientific apparatus and instruments--History--20th century |
| Categories: | SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Social History, SCIENCE / Experiments & Projects, SCIENCE / Scientific Instruments, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | This collection of essays discusses the marketing of scientific and medical instruments from the eighteenth century to the First World War. The evidence presented here is derived from sources as diverse as contemporary trade literature, through newspaper advertisements, to rarely-surviving inventories, and from the instruments themselves. The picture may not yet be complete, but it has been acknowledged that it is more complex than sketched out twenty-five or even fifty years ago. Here is a collection of case-studies from the United Kingdom, the Americas and Europe showing instruments moving from maker to market-place, and, to some extent, what happened next. Contributors are: Alexi Baker, Paolo Brenni, Laura Cházaro, Gloria Clifton, Peggy Aldrich Kidwell, Richard L. Kremer, A.D. Morrison-Low, Joshua Nall, Sara J. Schechner, and Liba Taub. |
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| ISBN: | 9789004324923 9789004324930 |
