Technological and industrial change: A comparative essay

The Cambridge History of Science: Eighteenth-Century Science

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 845-882

  Inkster, Ian ^a,b  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Fo kuang University   (Taiwan)

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DOI: 10.1017/CHOL9780521572439.037     Document Type: Chapter

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