12 research outputs found
Andrew Lambert, Franklin: Tragic Hero of Polar Navigation. London: Faber and Faber, 2009. Pp. xii+428. ISBN 978-0-571-23160-7. £20.00 (hardback).
No full textGuy Ortolano, The Two Cultures Controversy: Science, Literature and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xi+295. ISBN 978-0-521-89204-9. £55.00 (hardback).
No full textMichael Bentley, The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield: History, Science and God. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xv + 381. ISBN 978-1-107-00397-2. £50.00 (hardback).
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Melvyn C. Usselman , Pure Intelligence: The Life of William Hyde Wollaston. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. 424. ISBN 978-0-226-24573-7. £24.50 (hardback).
No full textScience in the pits: Michael Faraday, Charles Lyell and the Home Office Enquiry into the Explosion at Haswell Colliery, County Durham, in 1844
No full textThe explosion at Haswell colliery in September 1844 in which ninety five men and boys were killed has attracted considerable historical attention. This is in some measure due to Michael Faraday and Charles Lyell taking part in the inquest and writing a subsequent report on the cause of the explosion and how to prevent such explosions in the future. Using evidence not used before, this paper examines the context in which the explosion occurred, the inquest process, the political pressure which led to the involvement of Faraday and Lyell, their role at the inquest, their subsequent report and the way in which it was dealt with by the Government of Robert Peel
How Big is a Hole?: The Problems of the Practical Application of Science in the Invention of the Miners’ Safety Lamp by Humphry Davy and George Stephenson in Late Regency England
No full textScience in the pits: Michael Faraday, Charles Lyell and the home office enquiry into the explosion at Haswell Colliery, country Durham, in 1844∗
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