University of Manchester
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Simon Building
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL
United Kingdom
James Sumner
E-Mail: james.sumner@manchester.ac.uk
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0771-6231
Forschungs- und Interessengebiete:
- scientific and technological identity
- scientific authority and the manufacturing arts, particularly beer-brewing, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
- the role and image of the computer in everyday life
wichtigste Veröffentlichungen:
The Metric Tun. Standardisation, Quantification and Industrialisation in the British Brewing Industry, 1760–1830, PhD thesis, University of Leeds, 2004
Standards and Compatibility: The Rise of the PC Computing Platform, in: History of Technology 28 (2008), pp. 101-127