Ph.D. James Sumner

University of Manchester
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Simon Building
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL
United Kingdom

Online

E-Mail: james.sumner@manchester.ac.uk
Website: http://www.jbsumner.com

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

Stand der Informationen:

August 2012

Beiträge

Heft 2/2012
‘Today, Computers Should Interest Everybody’
The Meanings of Microcomputers

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