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Crosbie W. Smith

24 works· latest 2018· 2 institutionscluster: provisional

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Energy and Empire: A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin1991 · 286 citations
Work and Waste: Political Economy and Natural Philosophy in Nineteenth Century Britain (I)1989 · 134 citations
‘Mechanical philosophy’ and the emergence of physics in Britain: 1800–18501976 · 81 citations
Making space for science : territorial themes in the shaping of knowledge1998 · 69 citations
The Transmission of Physics from France to Britain: 1800-18401978 · 64 citations

Works

24 shown

Coal, Steam and Ships: Engineering, Enterprise and Empire on the Nineteenth-Century Seas

·2018·1 author

25citations

Coal, Steam and Ships

Cambridge University Press eBooks·2018·1 author·book

18citations

Dreadnought Science: The Cultural Construction of Efficiency and Effectiveness

Transactions of the Newcomen Society·2007·1 author

16citations

"Trust in Providence": Building Confidence into the Cunard Line of Steamers

Technology and Culture·2007·1 author

14citations

Engineering Empires

Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks·2005·2 authors·book

36citations

"Avoiding Equally Extravagance and Parsimony": The Moral Economy of the Ocean Steamship

Technology and Culture·2003·3 authors

17citations

Force, Energy, and Thermodynamics

Cambridge University Press eBooks·2001·1 author·chapter

The Science of Energy: A Cultural History of Energy Physics in Victorian Britain

The American Historical Review·2000·2 authors·other

29citations

Making Space for Science

Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks·1998·2 authors·book

54citations

Energy and Empire: A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin

Physics Today·1991·2 authors

286citations

William Hopkins and the shaping of Dynamical Geology: 1830–1860

The British Journal for the History of Science·1989·1 author

30citations

Measurement, Work and Industry in Lord Kelvin's Britain

Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences·1986·2 authors

38citations

From Design to Dissolution: Thomas Chalmers' Debt to John Robison

The British Journal for the History of Science·1979·1 author

30citations

The Transmission of Physics from France to Britain: 1800-1840

Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences·1978·2 authors

64citations

William Thomson and the creation of thermodynamics: 1840?1855

Archive for History of Exact Sciences·1977·1 author

39citations

Natural Philosophy and Thermodynamics: William Thomson and ‘The Dynamical Theory of Heat’

The British Journal for the History of Science·1976·1 author

19citations

SCOTTISH PHILOSOPHY AND BRITISH PHYSICS

Philosophical Books·1976·1 author·other

40citations