'Transfer of telegraph technologies in the nineteenth century' in D Jeremy (ed), International Technology Transfer. Europe, Japan and the USA, 1700-1914
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- Author(s) Israel, Paul B, & Keith Nier
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1991
- Pages pp95-121
- Publisher Edward Elgar
- Place Published Aldershot
Topics:
- Name Transfer of technology, processes, management techniques, etc
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
An early essay in a then neglected area of study. Deals with relatively complex issues of transfer where no one country was dominant, where state related issues were intertwined with economic / commercial ones, etc. Covers Britain, France, Germany and USA. 'We attempt to point out common patterns in regard to such transfers. In doing so, our concern is with how technical adaptions were influenced by national differences arising from the organisation of governments, economies, educational institutions and other aspects of these industrializing societies'