Technical choice, innovation, and British steam engineering, 1800-50

Economic History Review

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 685-710

  Nuvolari, Alessandro ^a   Verspagen, Bart ^b  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC HISTORY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY MARKET; ENGINE; FUEL CONSUMPTION; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 67651031215     PISSN: 00130117     EISSN: 14680289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2009.00472.x     Document Type: Article

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