Colin Divall
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 207331 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Colin Divall |
| PRENOMES | Colin |
| SOBRENOME | Divall |
| ASSINATURA | DIVALL C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of York |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1990 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Bobbie Oliver, A Natural Battleground
Engineers v. industrial designers
This article explores the jurisdictional battle between engineers and industrial designers over railway coach design as an episode in the post-war modernisation of the UK. Engineers’ long domination of the design process was challenged from the mid-1950s by the nationalised British Railways’ employment of industrial designers. These emerging specialists used the new Design Panel to consolidate their professional status by transforming British Rai…
Christian Wolmar, Are trams socialist? Why Britain has no transport policy
Transport Policy
Business history, global networks and the future of mobility
Globalisation raises serious concerns about ecological sustainability and social equality. This article proposes that business historians should write a usable past that is framed by the imperative of addressing these issues. The transport and communication networks that underpin global trade and travel offer an opportunity to narrate such a past. In particular business enterprises have historically helped to shape the ways consumers think about …
Civilising Velocity
Entries
Transport Design
(Alan) Winstan Bond, OBE
The London Transport Museum
The refurbished London Transport Museum remains one of the finest museums of urban transport in the world. Although the main audience is a general one, the museum's exhibitions, archives and study facilities offer much to the specialist historian of technology. The new galleries present a survey of the many ways in which private and public transport has contributed to the development of London over the past two centuries. While public transport v…
Museum Review
Technological networks and industrial research in Britain
Large and complex firms combining service and manufacturing functions such as the railways offer an interesting test of the claim that between the world wars British industry sometimes successfully prosecuted industrial research in ways that do not fit the Chandlerian paradigm. In particular, the largest of the inter-war railway companies relied on networks of external technological experts as well as developing its own in-house capability, there…
Cultures of Transport
Despite its development in the 1960s and 1970s, the idea that transport history could be at the cutting edge of historiographical research seems hardly credible today. This article argues that the `cultural turn' that has remodelled so many other areas of the humanities and social sciences may help recreate an innovative, even controversial, transport history. It would not merely bring the discipline into line conceptually and methodologically wi…
Railways in the Netherlands
Nowadays the Dutch railway system is one of the best in Europe. Its passengers enjoy regular, generally reliable, and modestly priced service over a dense network connecting all major and many minor centers of population [End Page 178] in the Netherlands and providing good—and in some cases, such as the new high-speed link to Brussels and Paris, excellent—connections with the rest of continental Europe. But this success has been bought at a price…
Railways in Britain and the United States, 1830-1940 (review)
Railways have long been a locus for the study of the interaction of technologies with business cultures and organizations, no more so than in the writings of Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Chandler's work on the American railroad, chiefly in The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (1977), frames much of this important collection of twelve studies by one of Britain's leading transport historians. Geoffrey Channon is a sympathetic …
Transport Museums
The many purposes of museums and ways in which they communicate with their visitors are not well understood by transport historians. Transport museums are not normally appropriate places in which to raise the finer points of academic debate. However, they appeal to wide audiences and are important as locations in which visitors can explore collective identities grounded in particular readings of the interaction between transport and everyday life…
Museum Reviews
Institutions in the Transport and Communications Industries
Historians of transport and communications have long faced difficulties in defining what distinguishes their field from major branches of historical inquiry such as economic and business history. Writing in the early 1990s, the British scholar Michael Robbins argued that a thorough knowledge of transport technologies and techniques was the defining feature: without this, historians ran the risk of drawing nonsensical conclusions from their studie…
Professional identity and organisation in a technical occupation
The emergence in Britain of chemical engineering, by mid‐century the fourth largest engineering specialism, was a hesitant and drawn out process. This article analyses the organisational politics behind the recognition of the technical occupation and profession from the First World War through to the end of the 1920s. The collective sense of professional identity among nascent ‘chemical engineers’ developed rapidly during this time owing to assoc…
The Missing Stratum
British Society for the History of Science. Report of Council for the year 1996
Objects The primary objective for which the Society is established is to promote and further the study of the history and philosophy of science. Secondary objectives include the provision of facilities, the arrangement of meetings, the promotion of research and the publishing of papers; full details of all the objectives may be found in the Society's Memorandum of Association . Policies The main policy of the Society is to provide the infrastruct…
Professional Autonomy, the State and Employers
It is often said that the performance of the British economy is damaged by the influence of political structures and occupational organizations dating from the earliest days of industrialization. In particular, a good deal of criticism has been levelled at the organization of professional engineers. Some critics point out that the engineering associations - established from the early nineteenth century on the model of the self-governing bodies of…
Environment as heritage
The Rise of Environmentalism in Museums by Jean Davallon, Gérald Grandmont and Bernard Schiele, with the collaboration of Marie‐Charlotte De Koninck. Quebec, Musee de la civilisation, 1992,278 pages, no price given, ISBN 2–551–12953–2 (English language edition), 2–7297–0436–1 (French language edition)
Changing Routes? The New London Transport Museum
Le Musee des Transports de Londres qui represente l'un des plus celebres symboles de la ville, a ferme, en 1993, durant 9 mois pour une complete remise a neuf, et pour replacer le developpement technique de chaque vehicule dans le contexte social et economique de sa periode
Professional organisation, employers and the education of engineers for management
Cultures of Transport
Despite its development in the 1960s and 1970s, the idea that transport history could be at the cutting edge of historiographical research seems hardly credible today. This article argues that the `cultural turn' that has remodelled so many other areas of the humanities and social sciences may help recreate an innovative, even controversial, transport history. It would not merely bring the discipline into line conceptually and methodologically wi…
Transport Museums
The many purposes of museums and ways in which they communicate with their visitors are not well understood by transport historians. Transport museums are not normally appropriate places in which to raise the finer points of academic debate. However, they appeal to wide audiences and are important as locations in which visitors can explore collective identities grounded in particular readings of the interaction between transport and everyday life…
Civilising Velocity
A Measure of Agreement
Over the half century to 1940, in England and Wales, university education virtually replaced apprenticeship as the élite entry into professional engineering. Although some employers scorned `college men', other firms, both large and small, welcomed the novel technical skills graduates offered. These employers had the power to influence university teaching through local organizations and the national professional engineering institutions. The earl…
Technological networks and industrial research in Britain
Large and complex firms combining service and manufacturing functions such as the railways offer an interesting test of the claim that between the world wars British industry sometimes successfully prosecuted industrial research in ways that do not fit the Chandlerian paradigm. In particular, the largest of the inter-war railway companies relied on networks of external technological experts as well as developing its own in-house capability, there…
Professional Autonomy, the State and Employers
It is often said that the performance of the British economy is damaged by the influence of political structures and occupational organizations dating from the earliest days of industrialization. In particular, a good deal of criticism has been levelled at the organization of professional engineers. Some critics point out that the engineering associations - established from the early nineteenth century on the model of the self-governing bodies of…
Business history, global networks and the future of mobility
Globalisation raises serious concerns about ecological sustainability and social equality. This article proposes that business historians should write a usable past that is framed by the imperative of addressing these issues. The transport and communication networks that underpin global trade and travel offer an opportunity to narrate such a past. In particular business enterprises have historically helped to shape the ways consumers think about …
The London Transport Museum
The refurbished London Transport Museum remains one of the finest museums of urban transport in the world. Although the main audience is a general one, the museum's exhibitions, archives and study facilities offer much to the specialist historian of technology. The new galleries present a survey of the many ways in which private and public transport has contributed to the development of London over the past two centuries. While public transport v…
Museum Reviews
The Missing Stratum
Changing Routes? The New London Transport Museum
Le Musee des Transports de Londres qui represente l'un des plus celebres symboles de la ville, a ferme, en 1993, durant 9 mois pour une complete remise a neuf, et pour replacer le developpement technique de chaque vehicule dans le contexte social et economique de sa periode
Professional organisation, employers and the education of engineers for management
Education for Design and Production
Colin Divall, Education for Design and Production: Professional Organization, Employers, and the Study of Chemical Engineering in British Universities, 1922-1976, Technology and Culture, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Apr., 1994), pp. 258-288
Fundamental science versus design
A Measure of Agreement
Over the half century to 1940, in England and Wales, university education virtually replaced apprenticeship as the élite entry into professional engineering. Although some employers scorned `college men', other firms, both large and small, welcomed the novel technical skills graduates offered. These employers had the power to influence university teaching through local organizations and the national professional engineering institutions. The earl…
Fundamental science versus design
Professional organisation, employers and the education of engineers for management
Education for Design and Production
Colin Divall, Education for Design and Production: Professional Organization, Employers, and the Study of Chemical Engineering in British Universities, 1922-1976, Technology and Culture, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Apr., 1994), pp. 258-288
Environment as heritage
The Rise of Environmentalism in Museums by Jean Davallon, Gérald Grandmont and Bernard Schiele, with the collaboration of Marie‐Charlotte De Koninck. Quebec, Musee de la civilisation, 1992,278 pages, no price given, ISBN 2–551–12953–2 (English language edition), 2–7297–0436–1 (French language edition)
Changing Routes? The New London Transport Museum
Le Musee des Transports de Londres qui represente l'un des plus celebres symboles de la ville, a ferme, en 1993, durant 9 mois pour une complete remise a neuf, et pour replacer le developpement technique de chaque vehicule dans le contexte social et economique de sa periode
Professional Autonomy, the State and Employers
It is often said that the performance of the British economy is damaged by the influence of political structures and occupational organizations dating from the earliest days of industrialization. In particular, a good deal of criticism has been levelled at the organization of professional engineers. Some critics point out that the engineering associations - established from the early nineteenth century on the model of the self-governing bodies of…
The Missing Stratum
British Society for the History of Science. Report of Council for the year 1996
Objects The primary objective for which the Society is established is to promote and further the study of the history and philosophy of science. Secondary objectives include the provision of facilities, the arrangement of meetings, the promotion of research and the publishing of papers; full details of all the objectives may be found in the Society's Memorandum of Association . Policies The main policy of the Society is to provide the infrastruct…
Professional identity and organisation in a technical occupation
The emergence in Britain of chemical engineering, by mid‐century the fourth largest engineering specialism, was a hesitant and drawn out process. This article analyses the organisational politics behind the recognition of the technical occupation and profession from the First World War through to the end of the 1920s. The collective sense of professional identity among nascent ‘chemical engineers’ developed rapidly during this time owing to assoc…
Institutions in the Transport and Communications Industries
Historians of transport and communications have long faced difficulties in defining what distinguishes their field from major branches of historical inquiry such as economic and business history. Writing in the early 1990s, the British scholar Michael Robbins argued that a thorough knowledge of transport technologies and techniques was the defining feature: without this, historians ran the risk of drawing nonsensical conclusions from their studie…
Museum Reviews
Railways in the Netherlands
Nowadays the Dutch railway system is one of the best in Europe. Its passengers enjoy regular, generally reliable, and modestly priced service over a dense network connecting all major and many minor centers of population [End Page 178] in the Netherlands and providing good—and in some cases, such as the new high-speed link to Brussels and Paris, excellent—connections with the rest of continental Europe. But this success has been bought at a price…
Railways in Britain and the United States, 1830-1940 (review)
Railways have long been a locus for the study of the interaction of technologies with business cultures and organizations, no more so than in the writings of Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Chandler's work on the American railroad, chiefly in The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (1977), frames much of this important collection of twelve studies by one of Britain's leading transport historians. Geoffrey Channon is a sympathetic …
Transport Museums
The many purposes of museums and ways in which they communicate with their visitors are not well understood by transport historians. Transport museums are not normally appropriate places in which to raise the finer points of academic debate. However, they appeal to wide audiences and are important as locations in which visitors can explore collective identities grounded in particular readings of the interaction between transport and everyday life…
Cultures of Transport
Despite its development in the 1960s and 1970s, the idea that transport history could be at the cutting edge of historiographical research seems hardly credible today. This article argues that the `cultural turn' that has remodelled so many other areas of the humanities and social sciences may help recreate an innovative, even controversial, transport history. It would not merely bring the discipline into line conceptually and methodologically wi…
Technological networks and industrial research in Britain
Large and complex firms combining service and manufacturing functions such as the railways offer an interesting test of the claim that between the world wars British industry sometimes successfully prosecuted industrial research in ways that do not fit the Chandlerian paradigm. In particular, the largest of the inter-war railway companies relied on networks of external technological experts as well as developing its own in-house capability, there…
Museum Review
The London Transport Museum
The refurbished London Transport Museum remains one of the finest museums of urban transport in the world. Although the main audience is a general one, the museum's exhibitions, archives and study facilities offer much to the specialist historian of technology. The new galleries present a survey of the many ways in which private and public transport has contributed to the development of London over the past two centuries. While public transport v…
Entries
Transport Design
(Alan) Winstan Bond, OBE
Civilising Velocity
Business history, global networks and the future of mobility
Globalisation raises serious concerns about ecological sustainability and social equality. This article proposes that business historians should write a usable past that is framed by the imperative of addressing these issues. The transport and communication networks that underpin global trade and travel offer an opportunity to narrate such a past. In particular business enterprises have historically helped to shape the ways consumers think about …
Christian Wolmar, Are trams socialist? Why Britain has no transport policy
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