Technology transfer and Scandinavian industrialisation / edited by Kristine Bruland
1991, 1st edition. New York : Berg. Near fine copy in the original decorated cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #397894
ISBN: 0854966056
Physical description; xiii, 410 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Social and cultural factors in technology transfer / Svante Lindqvist -- How industrial technology first came to Norway / Trine Parmer -- British influence on developments in the Swedish foundry industry around the turn of the eighteenth century / Martin Fritz -- Industrial espionage and the transfer of technology to the early Norwegian glass industry / Rolv Petter Amdam -- Borrowing and adaptation of British technology by the Swedish iron industry in the early nineteenth century / Rolf Adamson -- Artisan travel and technology transfer to Denmark, 1750-1900 / Poul Strømstad -- Transfer patterns of technology : theory and evidence / Fritz Hodne -- The diffusion of technology and industrial change in Sweden during the nineteenth century / Lennart Jörberg -- Foreign technology and the Danish brick and tile industry, 1830-1870 / Ole Hyldtoft. The Norwegian mechanical engineering industry and the transfer of technology, 1800-1900 / Kristine Bruland -- The introduction of the Bessemer process in Sweden / Claus Wohlert -- Laggards as leaders : some reflections on technology diffusion in Norwegian shipping, 1870-1940 / Håkon With Andersen -- The development and diffusion of European water turbines, 1870-1920 / Gunnar Nerheim -- Norway's entry into the age of paper : the development of the pulp and paper industry in the Drammen district / Eli Moen -- 'To take great pains' : Norwegian wood pulp on the British market in the 1870s / Even Lange. Subjects; Technology transfer Scandinavia. Industries Scandinavia. Industries. Technology transfer. Industrial development. Role of UK. Statistical table. Denmark. Norway. Sweden. Scandinavia Industries. Economic, Social, and Cultural History of Northern Europe.
Price: €160.00