The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century

The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century
Title The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century PDF eBook
Author Edward Wright Byrn
Publisher
Pages 504
Release 1900
Genre Inventions
ISBN

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Novel Science

Novel Science
Title Novel Science PDF eBook
Author Adelene Buckland
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 395
Release 2013-04-12
Genre Science
ISBN 0226079686

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Novel Science is the first in-depth study of the shocking, groundbreaking, and sometimes beautiful writings of the gentlemen of the “heroic age” of geology and of the contribution these men made to the literary culture of their day. For these men, literature was an essential part of the practice of science itself, as important to their efforts as mapmaking, fieldwork, and observation. The reading and writing of imaginative literatures helped them to discover, imagine, debate, and give shape and meaning to millions of years of previously undiscovered earth history. Borrowing from the historical fictions of Walter Scott and the poetry of Lord Byron, they invented geology as a science, discovered many of the creatures we now call the dinosaurs, and were the first to unravel and map the sequence and structure of stratified rock. As Adelene Buckland shows, they did this by rejecting the grand narratives of older theories of the earth or of biblical cosmogony: theirs would be a humble science, faithfully recording minute details and leaving the big picture for future generations to paint. Buckland also reveals how these scientists—just as they had drawn inspiration from their literary predecessors—gave Victorian realist novelists such as George Eliot, Charles Kingsley, and Charles Dickens a powerful language with which to create dark and disturbing ruptures in the too-seductive sweep of story.

The Origins of the World

The Origins of the World
Title The Origins of the World PDF eBook
Author Laura Bossi
Publisher Editions Gallimard
Pages 352
Release 2021-03-26
Genre Art
ISBN 9782072927003

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* At the crossroads of science and art, this catalogue compares the main milestones of scientific discoveries with their parallels in the collective imagination* Featuring 300 works which testify on the influence of scientific discoveries on the imagination and art of the 19th century* Accompanies an exhibition at Musée d'Orsay in Paris: December 2020 - May 2021. The exhibition has been organized with the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada, which will take place from June - 27 September 2021The 19th century saw an unprecedented development of the natural sciences. Darwinian theory questions the origins of man, his place in Nature, his links with animals and his own animality in a world now understood as an ecosystem. This upheaval in the sciences, as well as the public debates throughout the century, deeply influenced the artists. The Musée d'Orsay and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal are devoting an exhibition to the intersection of science and the arts for the first time, in partnership with the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, which will retrace the themes of this questioning and will confront the main milestones of scientific discoveries with their parallel in the art.

The Invention of the Sewing Machine

The Invention of the Sewing Machine
Title The Invention of the Sewing Machine PDF eBook
Author Grace Rogers Cooper
Publisher DigiCat
Pages 230
Release 2022-08-15
Genre History
ISBN

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Invention of the Sewing Machine" by Grace Rogers Cooper. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Mothers and Daughters of Invention

Mothers and Daughters of Invention
Title Mothers and Daughters of Invention PDF eBook
Author Autumn Stanley
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Pages 792
Release 1995
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780813521978

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Stanley traces women's inventions in five vital areas of technology worldwide--agriculture, medicine, reproduction, machines, and computers.

The Invention of News

The Invention of News
Title The Invention of News PDF eBook
Author Andrew Pettegree
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 452
Release 2014-03-25
Genre History
ISBN 0300179081

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DIVLong before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. In the pre-industrial era news was gathered and shared through conversation and gossip, civic ceremony, celebration, sermons, and proclamations. The age of print brought pamphlets, edicts, ballads, journals, and the first news-sheets, expanding the news community from local to worldwide. This groundbreaking book tracks the history of news in ten countries over the course of four centuries. It evaluates the unexpected variety of ways in which information was transmitted in the premodern world as well as the impact of expanding news media on contemporary events and the lives of an ever-more-informed public. Andrew Pettegree investigates who controlled the news and who reported it; the use of news as a tool of political protest and religious reform; issues of privacy and titillation; the persistent need for news to be current and journalists trustworthy; and people’s changed sense of themselves as they experienced newly opened windows on the world. By the close of the eighteenth century, Pettegree concludes, transmission of news had become so efficient and widespread that European citizens—now aware of wars, revolutions, crime, disasters, scandals, and other events—were poised to emerge as actors in the great events unfolding around them./div

The Sources of Invention

The Sources of Invention
Title The Sources of Invention PDF eBook
Author John Jewkes
Publisher Springer
Pages 383
Release 1969-06-18
Genre Technology & Engineering
ISBN 1349000159

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A study of the causes and consequences of industrial innovation through the inventions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.