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This paper thus complements the discussions of 'technological expertise' in Ben Marsden and Crosbie Smith, Engineering empires: A cultural history of technology in nineteenth-century Britain (Basingstoke, 2005). Since 'expertise' was not an actors' category for forms of technical knowledge in the nineteenth century, I have restricted discussion of it in this paper to authors writing in the twentieth or twenty-first centuries.
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