R A Buchanan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1045441 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R A Buchanan |
| GIVEN NAMES | R A |
| FAMILY NAME | Buchanan |
| SIGNATURE | BUCHANAN R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bath |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 63 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 63 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Industrial Archaeology: Retrospect and Prospect
Professor Hoskins has said that the primary article of equipment of the local historian is a strong pair of walking shoes, and Michael Rix has capped this with the remark that the industrial archaeologist requires gum boots. The term was coined in the mid-1950s in response to an urgently felt need to do something to prevent the apparently thoughtless wastage of the industrial heritage of Britain. Any short survey of the development of industrial …
Samuel Smiles and the Construction of Victorian Values
Reviewed by: Samuel Smiles and the Construction of Victorian Values * R. Angus Buchanan (bio) Samuel Smiles and the Construction of Victorian Values. By Adrian Jarvis. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1997. Pp. xvi+176; illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. £25. The idea of "self-help" has become a useful reference point in any discussion of mid-Victorian culture and values. The popularizer of that idea, Samuel Smiles, has thus be…
The Power of the Machine: The Impact of Technology from 1700 to the Present Day
Explores the nature and consequences of technological transformation, seeking to understand its causes and its implications for individuals and societies in the modern world. The emphasis is inevitably Western, where the changes have been most effective and have made available vast increases in productive capacity, rapid transport facilities and instantaneous communication. But the book also attempts to range widely over different societies, some…
The Atmospheric Railway of I.K. Brunel
I.K. Brunel took the daring but carefully calculated decision to recommend the adoption of atmospheric propulsion on the South Devon Railway in 1844. The principle had been convincingly demonstrated in models and small-scale operation, and it offered attractive advantages on the heavy gradients between Exeter and Plymouth. However, the installation proved to be a costly failure for the South Devon Railway, and it was abandoned in 1848, when still…
Theory and Narrative in the History of Technology
The Engineers: A History of the Engineering Profession in Britain, 1750-1914
The Engineers: A History of the Engineering Profession in Britain, 1750-1914
The History of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1871-1971
The Rolt Memorial Lecture 1987 The Lives of the Engineers
The Rolt Memorial Lecture 1987 The Lives of the Engineers
Scientific Colonialism: A Cross-Cultural Comparison ed. by Nathan Reingold, Marc Rothenberg
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 685 endnotes are in the form of scientific referencing, the reader must first look there and then to the appropriate bibliographic section to identify the source. Cambridge University Press should use either scientific referencing or the traditional format. This well-written, well-documented study (with an excellent index) provides much information about the Chinese coal industry and in tegrates technology, ec…
Scientific Colonialism: A Cross-Cultural Comparison
The Making of American Industrial Research: Science and Business at GE and Bell, 1876-1926
The History and Archaeology of Ports
The Diaspora of British Engineering
Imperialism is a complex phenomenon, taking different forms at different times. It flourishes whenever one society seeks to impose itself on another, and it takes advantage of the marked inequalities between societies that enable such an imposition to be effective. There have been two distinct periods when imperialism has been dominant in the modern world: the first occurred during the 16th and 17th centuries, and the second during the late 19th …
Stephensons' Britain
The Victoria History of the Counties of England: A History of Shropshire, Volume XI, Telford
A Bristol Miscellany
Energy in History: The Topicality of the History of Technology-Icohtec Symposium, Lerbach, Federal Republic of Germany, September 2-7, 1984
R. A. Buchanan, Energy in History: The Topicality of the History of Technology-ICOHTEC Symposium, Lerbach, Federal Republic of Germany, September 2-7, 1984, Technology and Culture, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Jul., 1985), pp. 629-630
The Rise of Scientific Engineering in Britain
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Institutional Proliferation in the British Engineering Profession, 1847-1914
The Revolution in Science, 1500-1750
Icohtec Symposium: Smolenice, Czechoslovakia, June 7-12, 1982
The British contribution to Australian engineering: The Australian dictionary of biography entries
(1983). The British contribution to Australian engineering: The Australian dictionary of biography entries. Historical Studies: Vol. 20, No. 80, pp. 401-419
The Great Eastern Controversy: A Comment
Hydrocarbon- and rubber-producing crops: Evaluation of U.S. plant species
Hydrocarbon-and rubber-producing crops: Evaluation of 100 U.S. plant species
Industrial Archaeology in Britain
Industrial Archaeology in Britain
Theory and Narrative in the History of Technology
The Diaspora of British Engineering
Imperialism is a complex phenomenon, taking different forms at different times. It flourishes whenever one society seeks to impose itself on another, and it takes advantage of the marked inequalities between societies that enable such an imposition to be effective. There have been two distinct periods when imperialism has been dominant in the modern world: the first occurred during the 16th and 17th centuries, and the second during the late 19th …
The Industrial Archaeology of Farming in England and Wales
The British contribution to Australian engineering: The Australian dictionary of biography entries
(1983). The British contribution to Australian engineering: The Australian dictionary of biography entries. Historical Studies: Vol. 20, No. 80, pp. 401-419
The Atmospheric Railway of I.K. Brunel
I.K. Brunel took the daring but carefully calculated decision to recommend the adoption of atmospheric propulsion on the South Devon Railway in 1844. The principle had been convincingly demonstrated in models and small-scale operation, and it offered attractive advantages on the heavy gradients between Exeter and Plymouth. However, the installation proved to be a costly failure for the South Devon Railway, and it was abandoned in 1848, when still…
Scientific Colonialism: A Cross-Cultural Comparison
Institutional Proliferation in the British Engineering Profession, 1847-1914
The Great Eastern Controversy: A Comment
Industrial Archaeology: Retrospect and Prospect
There is no agreed definition of industrial archaeology. My own preference is that it is a field of study concerned with investigating, surveying, recording, and, in some cases, with preserving industrial monuments. An 'industrial monument' in this context iis any relic of an obsolete phase of an industry or transport system, but in practice it is useful to confine attention to the monuments of the last 200 years, both because earlier periods are…
Notes and Comments
Technology in Western Civilization
The Centre for the Study of the History of Technology, Bath University of Technology, England
The Centre for the Study of the History of Technology is a research unit in the new Bath University of Technology, one of the eight English colleges of advanced technology which have been raised to university status in the last few years. The Centre grew out of the Department of General Studies in the Bristol College of Science and Technology, as the university was previously styled, and particularly out of the need to present social history as a…
Techniques of Industrial Archaeology
I. K. Brunel and the Port of Bristol
(1969). I. K. Brunel and the Port of Bristol. Transactions of the Newcomen Society: Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 41-56
Technology and Social Progress
South Kensington to Robbins by Michael Argles, and: The Development of Technical Education in France, 1500–1850 by Frederick B. Artz (review)
308 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE porting roles; in France their part was minor. In places with no indus trialization, banks failed to mobilize savings for investment in industrial plants. The authors also discovered that banks made innovations to meet various local needs and conditions. They also flourished most where private initiative and competition had free play. Restrictive legislation could be disastrous. Shepard B. Clough* South Ke…
New Inventions: A Comprehensive Survey of Scientific and Technical Progress in the Arts, Sciences, and Manufactures as Published during the Reign of Her Majesty ed. by Maurice Rickards (review)
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 443 try was not much affected by technological change until the 1820s mainly because, in the relatively primitive state of machine-making, it was simply not possible to produce an efficient machine at a cost which a manufacturer would be prepared to incur in order to enjoy the powerloom’s expected advantage” (p. 82). Instead, for decades after Cartwright “invented” the power loom (1785), men continued to expend…
Mines, Mills and Furnaces: Industrial Archaeology in Wales
South Kensington to Robbins
New Inventions: A Comprehensive Survey of Scientific and Technical Progress in the Arts, Sciences, and Manufactures as Published during the Reign of Her Majesty
Industrial Archaeology: Retrospect and Prospect
There is no agreed definition of industrial archaeology. My own preference is that it is a field of study concerned with investigating, surveying, recording, and, in some cases, with preserving industrial monuments. An 'industrial monument' in this context iis any relic of an obsolete phase of an industry or transport system, but in practice it is useful to confine attention to the monuments of the last 200 years, both because earlier periods are…
Science and Technology in the Industrial Revolution
Technology and Culture: An Anthology ed. by Melvin Kranzberg, William H. Davenport (review)
I joined SHOT sometime in the mid-1960s mainly to get Technology and Culture, which has provided me with interesting and thought-provoking reading ever since. My reading wasn't close or well informed, because my concept of history was rather naive and simplistic (I was trained as a mechanical engineer and stayed in that field until retiring in 1995). Nevertheless, I strolled blissfully through T&C, looking for interesting tidbits that I could pic…
Industrial Archaeology in Britain
Technology and Culture: An Anthology
Industrial Archaeology in Britain
The Archaeology of the Industrial Revolution
The Secret of Sherwood Forest: Oil Production in England during World War II
Lionel Thomas Caswall Rolt (1910-1974)
Memorials LIONEL THOMAS CASWALL ROLT (1910-1974) R . A . BUCHANAN L. T. C. Rolt, who died on May 9, 1974 at the age of sixty-four, had been for some years a member of the Advisory Council of SHOT. He was one of the most distinguished engineering and transport his torians of his generation, and by the time of his death his works had won for him an international reputation. Over the last thirty years he published almost a book a year, covering a r…
Second International Congress on the Conservation of Industrial Monuments: Bergbau-Museum, Bochum, Germany, September 3-9, 1975
R. A. Buchanan, Second International Congress on the Conservation of Industrial Monuments: Bergbau-Museum, Bochum, Germany, September 3-9, 1975, Technology and Culture, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Apr., 1976), pp. 245-248
Twenty Centuries of British Industry
The Orrell Coalfield, Lancashire, 1740-1850
Science and engineering: A case study in British experience in the mid-nineteenth century
By 1870, civil and mechanical engineers had both achieve a substantial measure of institutional and professional recognition in Britain. The great boom in industrial development and the construction of transport systems had ensured them places of importance and honour in mid-Victorian society. Several engineers had received knighthoods and become members of parliament. Many had grown rich from the practice of their skills, and had acquired large …
Hydrocarbon-and rubber-producing crops: Evaluation of 100 U.S. plant species
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