Sökning: "teknikhistoria"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 72 avhandlingar innehållade ordet teknikhistoria.
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. Koppardalen : Om historiens plats i omvandlingen av ett industriområde
Sammanfattning : The empirical focus of this study is the contemporary transition of the industrial area Koppardalen, situated in Avesta in the middle of Sweden. Koppardalen (literary translated “The Copper Valley”) got its name in 1987 when the Avesta municipality bought the area from an iron and steel company. LÄS MER
3. Att bygga kunskapsstaden : en studie av högskolornas framväxt i Stockholm 1850-1960
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4. Bilsamhället : Ideologi, expertis och regelskapande i efterkrigstidens Sverige
Sammanfattning : During the 1950s the number of cars in Sweden increased almost fivefold and the country attained the highest level of car ownership per capita in Europe. The rise and establishment of mass motoring was dramatically illustrated by the violent encounter between the car and the city. LÄS MER
5. Water for a few : a history of urban water and sanitation in East Africa
Sammanfattning : This licentiate thesis describes and analyses the modern history of the socio-technical systems for urban water supply and sanitation in East Africa with focus on Uganda and Kenya. The key objective of the thesis is to evaluate to what extent the historic processes frame and influence the water and sanitation services sectors in these countries today. LÄS MER
