All Stories

  1. Editorial
  2. Editorial
  3. Editorial
  4. Editorial
  5. Editorial for Notes and Records December 2015 issue
  6. Editorial
  7. Ranking Rankine: W. J. M. Rankine (1820-72) and the Making of 'Engineering Science' Revisited
  8. Quakers, Jews, and Science: Religious Responses to Modernity and the Sciences in Britain, 1650?1900 By Geoffrey Cantor
  9. Superseding Steam: The Napier and Rankine Hot-air Engine
  10. Engineering Empires
  11. Conclusion: Cultures of Technological Expertise
  12. Introduction: Technology, Science and Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century
  13. ‘Objects of national importance’: Exploration, Mapping and Measurement
  14. Power and Wealth: Reputations and Rivalries in Steam Culture
  15. Belief in Steamers: Making Trustworthy the Iron Steamship
  16. Building Railway Empires: Promises in Space and Time
  17. ‘The most gigantic electrical experiment’: The Trials of Telegraphy
  18. Semaphores to short waves
  19. Blowing Hot and Cold: Reports and Retorts on the Status of the Air-Engine as Success or Failure, 1830–1855
  20. ‘A Most Important Trespass’: Lewis Gordon and the Glasgow Chair of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, 1840–55
  21. Engineering science in Glasgow: economy, efficiency and measurement as prime movers in the differentiation of an academic discipline