Sökning: "historia teknik"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 122 avhandlingar innehållade orden historia teknik.
1. Teknik på bönders villkor : de tekniska och politiska aktörernas inflytande på den statsreglerade tekniska förändringen i Sverige 1806-1972
Sammanfattning : The dissertation deals with History of technology in Sweden before, during and after the industrialization. A theory that technical actors have a growing influence on state technology chiefly owing to the industrialization is presented. LÄS MER
2. 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
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. 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
5. Taming exotic beauties : Swedish hydropower constructions in Tanzania in the era of development assistance, 1960s-1990s
Sammanfattning : This study analyses the history of a large hydroelectric scheme – the Great Ruaha power project in Tanzania. The objective is to establish why and how this specific scheme came about, and as part of this to identify the key actors involved in the decision-making process, including the ideological contexts within which they acted. LÄS MER