Hitting the Brakes. Engineering design and the production of knowledge
Details:
- Author(s) Johnson, Ann
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2009
- Pages 207pp
- Publisher Duke University Press
Topics:
- Name Research & development inc operational research
- Name Knowledge inc transmission/networks
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
Scholarly work illuminating 'the complex social, historical, and cultural dynamics of engineering design, in which knowledge communities come together to produce new products and knowledge' using as a case study the development in 1950s/60s of antilock braking systems for passenger cars'. Relates the complex, unpredictable pathway involving public and private participant internationally located, etc. UK involvement was via British Road Research Laboratory, Dunlop Rubber Co Ltd, etc