HPSC 1004 Introduction to Science Policy

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HPSC 1004 Introduction to Science Policy

• Week 2 Slot 2
• Science, Industry and Economy

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Mass production in factories
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The Swainson Birley Mill at Preston,
Lancashire, 1834
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division of labour
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division of labour

• Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, 1776
• Compare one person making a pin from start to
  finish (or an army of such individuals)
• with a series of specialised workers, each doing
  one task and passing on

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division of labour

• Implications
• specialisation in society
• specialised work and special-purpose machines
• eg Portsmouth dockyards pulley-block machines
  and production line

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Marc Brunels Portsmouth blockmaking machinery,
1803
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Marc Brunels Portsmouth blockmaking machinery,
1803
and Naval Power
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division of labour

• Implications
• specialisation in society
• specialised work and special-purpose machines
• mass production, mass markets, mass consumption

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industrious revolution?
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time and work-discipline
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Science and the Industrial Revolution

• Innovation from mere tinkering?
• Musson and Robinson, Science and Technology in
  the Industrial Revolution, 1969
• Margaret Jacob Newtonianism, Britain and
  Industrialisation
• Lunar Society
• From steam engines to thermodynamics

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Lunar Society
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Lunar Society
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Lunar Society
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Lunar Society
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Lunar Society
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Lunar Society
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Boulton and Watts double-acting engine
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Newcomen engine
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Boulton and Watts double-acting engine
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Second Industrial Revolution

• Dyestuffs and organic chemistry
• William Perkin and mauveine
• German aniline dyestuff industry
• British imperial and naval innovation
• cables and turbines
• Systems invention in United States
• electric light and power
• Telephone
• Invention of organised invention industrial
  laboratories

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Linear model

• basic ? applied ? technology ? innovation
  ? economic
• science science and social
• effects

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Pharmaceutical drug development pipeline
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Linear model

• basic ? applied ? technology ? innovation
  ? economic
• science science and social
• effects