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Frei José Mariano da Conceição Veloso e a divulgação de técnicas industriais no Brasil colonial: discussão de alguns conceitos das ciências químicas Friar José Mariano da Conceição Veloso and the promotion of industrial techniques in colonial Brazil: discussion of some concepts from the chemical sciences

História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2009
Na virada para o século XIX, o botânico mineiro frei Veloso desenvolveu intensa atividade de publicação de livros com intuito de divulgar aos colonos do império português técnicas para o melhoramento da produção agrícola e da incipiente indústria química.
Fernando J. Luna
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O desenho e a história da técnica na arquitetura do Brasil colonial The history of technical design in the Brazilian colonial architecture

Varia História, 2011
Com a crescente disponibilização de documentos visuais de Arquitetura, especialmente do período do Brasil colonial, esse artigo propõe aos historiadores um conjunto de procedimentos para explorar os valores artísticos e técnicos desses importantes ...
Marcos Tognon
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Medical technologies and the social strategies of two surgical instrument makers in Denmark and Sweden, 1870–1900

Acta Medico-Historica Rigensia, 2021
Technical professions were important agents in medicine and its knowledge production in the nineteenth century. This paper will look more closely at two examples of the social strategies used by Danish surgical instrument maker Camillus Nyrop and his ...
Kristin Halverson
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Still Life with a Machine

RSA Journal, 2003
Focused on the paradigmatic shift brought about by the typewriter on the compositional habits of Cummings, the paper explores the interrelations between the history of technology and his poetry.
Salvatore Marano
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From Renaissance medals to the Jaguar E-Type car bonnet: mechanised production and the making of luxury goods

Science Museum Group Journal, 2021
It is often assumed that the development of mechanised production technology and the making of luxury goods are incompatible. Arising from familiar narratives of the Industrial Revolution and echoes of Arts and Crafts thinking, high volume commodities ...
Charles Ormrod
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Troublesome telephony: how users and non-users shaped the development of early British exchange telephony

Science Museum Group Journal, 2015
When exchange telephony was first marketed to the British public by the early telephone companies in the late nineteenth century it was as an intuitive technology requiring no specialist knowledge or training.
Dr Michael Kay
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Leonardo Torres Quevedo: el patrimonio histórico, científico, tecnológico y educativo … y las funciones de la universidad [PDF]

Cabás, 2017
Con ocasión de la conmemoración del centenario del Transbordador del Niágara, a lo largo de 2016 se ha llevado a cabo un denso programa de actividades, promovido desde la asociación cultural Amigos de la Cultura Científica, que han dado contenido al ...
Redondo, F. A. G.
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Context, Cosplay, and (Re)configurations: Centering the Geek at the Heart of Science Fiction Pedagogy

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2021
The course "Science Fiction: Humanity, Technology, the Present, the Future" uses fandom as a motivator for pedagogical development, promoting participation and engagement by encouraging students to embrace their fan passions.
Kimon Keramidas, Fiona Haborak
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‘Great ease and simplicity of action’: Dr Nelson’s Inhaler and the origins of modern inhalation therapy

Science Museum Group Journal, 2017
Unveiled at the conclusion of a meeting of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society in 1861,[1] ‘Dr Nelson’s Improved Inhaler’ was one of the most important milestones in the genesis of reliable treatment of respiratory ailments in the modern era ...
Barry Murnane, Darragh Murnane, Mark Sanders, Noel Snell   +3 more
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Paimio Sanatorium under Construction

Arts, 2018
Alvar Aalto created innovative architecture in his breakthrough work, Paimio Sanatorium, located in Southwestern Finland and designed between 1928 and 1933.
Marianna Heikinheimo
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