Sökning: "history of technology"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 842 avhandlingar innehållade orden history of technology.
1. Visionen om outtömlig energi : Bridreaktorn i svensk kärnkraftshistoria 1945–80
Sammanfattning : The fast breeder is a type of nuclear reactor that aroused much attention in the 1950s and 60s. Its ability to produce more nuclear fuel than it consumes offered promises of cheap and reliable energy, and thereby connected it to utopian ideas about an eternal supply of energy. LÄS MER
2. Bränsle för den moderna nationen : Etanol och gengas i Sverige under mellankrigstiden och andra världskriget
Sammanfattning : This thesis investigate Swedish policy-making concerning promotion of wood gas and ethanol distilled from fermented sulphite lye as domestic fuel alternatives in the Interwar years and World War II. With a departure point in the theories of social constructions of technology (SCOT), the sociology of expectations and Thomas P. LÄS MER
3. Tools of Hegemony : Military Technology and Swedish-American Security Relations, 1945-1962
Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis analyze the process whereby Sweden gained access to American guided missiles during the late 1950s and early 1960s. It also tracks the Swedish efforts to develop guided missiles domestically. LÄS MER
4. The Politics of property in a European periphery : The ownership of books, berries, and patents in the Grand Duchy of Finland 1850–1910
Sammanfattning : In the late nineteenth century, the Grand Duchy of Finland benefited from its backward position in the peripheral corner of Europe; its export markets expanded, career opportunities were sought abroad, and foreign ideas and technology were translated and appropriated. At the same time, the identity of the young nation state as a part of the Russian Empire was being put together by its educated elite, whose national projects would react to foreign developments and amalgamate with the expertise acquired abroad. LÄS MER
5. Medieteknik och historieundervisning : diskurser om teknik i klassrummet under 1980-talet och åren kring 2010
Sammanfattning : The present study analyzes attitudes made manifest when media technology is used in teaching at Swedish upper secondary schools. It examines discourses related to the subject of history by comparing contemporary circumstances with those of the mid-1980s, making research in both educational history and history education indispensible to its execution. LÄS MER
