Research, Invent, Improve

After nearly a quarter century of war, France faced the challenge of retooling for peace. From 1822 to 1835 a team of five savant-technologists challenged elitism through the twenty-six-volume Dictionnaire Technologique. They promoted research and innovation by redistributing technological knowledge to the general public through an accessible, comprehensive, up-to-date publication. This study illustrates the Dictionnaire's approach by focusing on innovative products made by tinsmiths and how the authors' synthesis of theory and practice promoted the acceleration of industrial change via a consumer-oriented alternative to a war economy. This study thus challenges the dominant historical narrative that has framed French technology as focused on theory against a British emphasis on practice, instead of integrated theory and practice; a French lag behind Britain, instead of a unique French artisanal path of innovation; and a repressive aristocratic political regime, instead of the pragmatic opposition of politics through dissemination of technology to non-elites

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• Recent Articles on French History

  Jean‐pierre V M Herubel, Jean-Pierre Hérubel•French Historical Studies•2022

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• The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe

  Open Access•Stephen Broadberry, Kevin H O''Rourke et al.•Cambridge Economic History of…•2010

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• Traite? d?e?conomie politique, ou, simple exposition de la manie?re dont se forment, se distribuent ou se consomment les richesses.

  Jean Baptiste Say•Traite? d?e?conomie politique,…•2002

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• The French Generation of 1820

  Alan Barrie Spitzer•French Generation Of 1820•1987

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• The Athénée de Paris and the Bourbon Restoration

  Barbara Haines•History and Technology•1988

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• The Annales de l’Industrie (1820–1827)

  Joost Mertens•History and Technology•2004

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• Les salaires et la condition ouvriere en France a l'aube du machinisme (1815-1830)

  Paul Paillat•Revue économique•1951

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• Inventing Industrial Education

  Open Access•John R Pannabecker•History of Education Quarterly•2004

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• L'oeuvre Economique de Jean-Baptiste Say

  Alexander Gray, Alexander I Gray et al.•The Economic Journal•1929

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• Technological Innovation

  Benoit Godin•Technology and Culture•2016

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• School for Industry

  John R Pannabecker•Technology and Culture•2002

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• "Representing Mechanical Arts in Diderot's "Encyclopedie

  John R Pannabecker•Technology and Culture•1998

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• Medieval Religion and Technology-Collected Essays

  Joseph R Strayer, Lynn White•Technology and Culture•1980

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• The Greatest Missions Never Flown

  Lisa Messeri, Janet Vertesi•Technology and Culture•2015

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• Technik Comes to America

  Eric Schatzberg•Technology and Culture•2006

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• Histoire de l'industrie en France, Du 16e siecle a nos jours

  Alain Beltran, Denis Woronoff•Vingtième Siècle Revue d histoire•1997

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• Le travail de la routine

  Open Access•François Jarrige•Annales Histoire Sciences Sociales•2010

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