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,‘Objects of national importance’: Exploration, Mapping and Measurement,t least the eighteenth century. From the point of view of an imperial power, ‘spaces yet vacant on the map’ — especially within existing British territories — meant that ‘possession’ was incomplete, that control, if any, still resided with other forces, and that ‘civilisation’ — in the form of Weste

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Belief in Steamers: Making Trustworthy the Iron Steamship,n an age of Victorian empire. Thirty years on, however, his faith that steam-powered vessels ‘lessened the dangers of voyages’ would have rung hollow. The year 1854 was a disastrous one both for transatlantic steamships and for iron sailing ships out of Liverpool. On 1 March the iron screw steamer .

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Building Railway Empires: Promises in Space and Time,basa with the eastern shore of Lake Victoria in Uganda. Neither tribal opposition nor engineering problems played any part in this brief pause in the onward march of imperial civilisation. Yet before progress recommenced, ‘twenty-eight Indian coolies and an indefinite number of African natives’ had

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,‘The most gigantic electrical experiment’: The Trials of Telegraphy,North America, . told its readers that once the cable was ‘successfully laid down’ it would ‘remain the most gigantic electrical experiment ever made’.. The ambivalence of that statement — the telegraph as a robust product of electrical science, or as vast but fragile innovation — seemed to be justi

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Conclusion: Cultures of Technological Expertise,e cultural construction of empires: usually built as personal and business empires but often closely interconnected one with another and in relation to the larger geopolitical empires of the nineteenth century. In this concluding chapter we expand upon several cultures of technological expertise, al

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Book 2005Engineers are empire-builders. Watt, Brunel, and others worked to build and expand personal and business empires of material technology and in so doing these engineers also became active agents of political and economic empire. This book provides a fascinating exploration of the cultural construction of the large-scale technologies of empire.

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Technical and Vocational Education,aterial technology founded on and sustained by durable networks of trust and expertise. It is our aim in this book to re-examine, from within, the cultural construction of the large-scale technologies of empire. Beginning with an analysis of collective adventures in exploration, mapping and measurem