Senior Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- b.marsden@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272637
- Office Address
School of Divinity, History, Philosophy and Art History
Crombie Annexe,
Meston Walk,
King's College,
University of Aberdeen,
Old Aberdeen,
AB24 3FX
Room: Crombie Annexe 204- School/Department
- School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History
Biography
BA (MA) Hons in Mathematics, University of Cambridge (1987); Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics (MMath) (Mathematical Tripos Part III), University of Cambridge (1988); PhD in History, Philosophy and Social Relations of Science, University of Kent at Canterbury (1992); British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Leeds (1993-1995); Royal Society - British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow in History of Science, University of Kent at Canterbury (1995-1999) and University of Aberdeen (1999-2000); Lecturer in Cultural History, University of Aberdeen (2000-2009); Senior Fellow, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, MIT/Harvard (2005-2006); Senior Lecturer in History of Science and Technology (2009-present); Deputy Head of School of Divinity, History and Philosophy (2009-2011); Director, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (2009-2010); Director, Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine (2010-2011, 2012-present); Head of Department of History (2018-2023)
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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Founding Director of the CASS Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine, now a Centre in the School of Divinity, History, Philosophy and Art History
- External Memberships
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Include, or have included: Council, British Society for the History of Science (2000-2003); Book Reviews Editor and Editorial Board Member, British Journal for the History of Science (2000-2005); Advisory Editor, Isis (2009-2011); Chair, BSHS Conferences Committee (2013-2016); Editor, Notes and Records: the Royal Society's Journal for the History of Science (2015-2018)
Latest Publications
'Whewell and mechanics'
William Whewell: Victorian Polymath. Verburgt, L. M. (ed.). University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 46-60, 290-296, 23 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersThe Role of Transport and Telecommunications Technology in the Development of the Scottish Highlands and Islands Medical Service: A Historical Perspective
Rural and Remote Health, vol. 21, no. 3Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.22605/RRH6560
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/17325/1/Quinn_etal_RHH_The_Role_Of_VoR.pdf
Institutionalizing the "metropolis of mechanics": Philosophical engineering in the city of Glasgow c. 1825 - c. 1875
Urban histories of science: Making Knowledge in the City, 1820-1940. Nieto-Galan, A., Hochadel, O. (eds.). Routledge, pp. 37-58, 22 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters[Review of] Don Leggett, Shaping the Royal Navy, Manchester University Press
International Journal of Maritime History , vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 208-210Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0843871416678173i
A Protean system of apparatus: Robert Willis and the material invention of mechanism
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
- Research
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Research Overview
Science and technology in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century culture, especially the cultural history of engineering and technology in Britain; the historical relationship between science and music; engineers as authors and readers; cultural history of food.
Selected publications have addressed: the history of engineering education (esp. of W. J. Macquorn Rankine), in the British Journal for the History of Science (1992) and in Crosbie Smith and Jon Agar (eds.), Making space for science (Macmillan, 1998); technological success and failure in History of Science (1998); the history of energy and the relationship between science and music in Hessenbruch (ed.), Readers' guide to the history of science (Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000); and the reading practices of I. K. Brunel in Marsden, O'Connor and Hutchison (eds.), Uncommon contexts (Pickering & Chatto, 2013). His account of James Watt and the separate condenser appeared as Watt's perfect engine: steam and the age of invention (Icon, 2002; Columbia, 2004). He has also contributed extensively to the new Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004). With Crosbie Smith he has written Engineering empires: a cultural history of technology in nineteenth-century Britain (Macmillan, 2005 (hbk), 2006 (pbk)). The first part of an interdisciplinary study of the relationship between the mechanical analysis, architectural history and comparative anatomy of Cambridge professor Robert Willis was published in the British Journal for the History of Science (2004) and a discussion of Willis's models and apparatus appears in the proceedings (eds Alexandrina Buchanan et al.) of a conference on Willis held at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in September 2016. He revisited the history of heat engines, especially those using air as a working substance, in Transactions of the Newcomen Society (2006). He contributed a new entry on meteorologist John Aitken to the new edition of the Dictionary of Scientific Biography (2007); and his study of attitudes towards the engineering science of naval architecture at the British Association for the Advancement of Science appeared in a thematic volume of the Journal for European Administrative History (2008). A further paper on John Aitken's 'outdoor physics' has appeared in a Norwegian journal of cultural history (2009); and a study of perceptions of French technological culture amongst British artisans in the early ninteenth century has appeared in a volume edited by Liliane Hilaire-Perez (2010). He is completing the first major biography of Macquorn Rankine for Ashgate: a preliminary study, 'Ranking Rankine', appeared in History of Science (2013). With Peter McCaffery he edited the Reader in Cultural History (Routledge, 2014). With Ralph O'Connor and Hazel Hutchison he edited Uncommon Contexts, a collection of studies in literature and science in the nineteenth century, including his own study of I. K. Brunel as reader and author. He has also published, in Hochadel and Nieto-Galan (eds) Urban Histories of Science: Making Knowledge in the City (Routledge) a study of nineteenth-century Glasgow as the 'metropolis of mechanics'. He edited Notes and Records: the Royal Society's Journal for the History of Science (2015-2018).
Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in History.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Research Specialisms
- Cultural Studies
- History of Medicine
- History of Science
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
Current Research
He is currently: completing the first book-length study of W. J. M. Rankine and the origins of academic engineering in nineteenth-century Britain (for Ashgate).
Collaborations
He has worked closely with Crosbie Smith on the AHRC-funded project on the cultural history of the ocean-going steamer in nineteenth-century Britain; he maintains close links with staff at the National Museum of Scotland (Science and Technology Division).
Funding and Grants
He received a major grant from the Dibner Institute of the History of Science and Technology, MIT/Harvard (2005-2006) as Senior Fellow there.
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
Includes:
Contributions to the University's interdisciplinary Sixth Century Courses, including 'Fearsome Engines'
Europe in the 20th Century (level 1)
Scientific Revolution (level 1)
Renaissance and Reformations (level 1)
Birth of Modernity (level 2)
History of Medicine for Medical Students (level 3)
Eating History (level 3)
Thinking History (level 3)
Cultures of Victorian Science and Technology (level 4)
Undergraduate Dissertation (level 4)
Engaging with Historiography (level 5)
MLitt in Museum Studies and MLitt in Literature, Science and Medicine
- Publications
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'Whewell and mechanics'
William Whewell: Victorian Polymath. Verburgt, L. M. (ed.). University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 46-60, 290-296, 23 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersThe Role of Transport and Telecommunications Technology in the Development of the Scottish Highlands and Islands Medical Service: A Historical Perspective
Rural and Remote Health, vol. 21, no. 3Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.22605/RRH6560
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/17325/1/Quinn_etal_RHH_The_Role_Of_VoR.pdf
Institutionalizing the "metropolis of mechanics": Philosophical engineering in the city of Glasgow c. 1825 - c. 1875
Urban histories of science: Making Knowledge in the City, 1820-1940. Nieto-Galan, A., Hochadel, O. (eds.). Routledge, pp. 37-58, 22 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters[Review of] Don Leggett, Shaping the Royal Navy, Manchester University Press
International Journal of Maritime History , vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 208-210Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0843871416678173i
A Protean system of apparatus: Robert Willis and the material invention of mechanism
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsEditorial: The view from somewhere
Notes & Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 70, no. 3, pp. 207-208Contributions to Journals: Editorials- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2016.0025
Editorial for Notes & Records of the Royal Society of London
Notes & Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 105-106Contributions to Journals: Editorials- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2016.0012.
Editorial for Notes & Records of the Royal Society of London
Notes & Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 5-7Contributions to Journals: Editorials- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2015.0061
Editorial
Notes & Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 357-359Contributions to Journals: Editorials- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2015.0054
Good vibrations: [Review of] Peter Pesic, Music and the Making of Modern Science, MIT Press
TLS: The Times Literary Supplement, no. 5871, pp. 24Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesEditorial
Notes & Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 69, no. 2, pp. 105-107Contributions to Journals: Editorials- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2015.0013
The Cultural History Reader
Routledge, London. 358 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksRanking Rankine: W. J. M. Rankine (1820-72) and the making of ‘engineering science’ revisited
History of Science, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 434-456Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Introduction
Uncommon Contexts: Encounters Betweeen Literature and Science, 1800-1914. Marsden, B., Hutchison, H., O'Connor, R. (eds.). Pickering & Chatto, pp. 1-19, 187-192, 25 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersRe-reading Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Engineering literature in the early nineteenth century
Uncommon Contexts: Encounters between Science and Literature, 1800-1914. Marsden, B., Hutchison, H., O'Connor, R. (eds.). Pickering & Chatto, pp. 83-109, 206-214, 35 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersUncommon Contexts: Encounters between Science and Literature, 1800-1914
Pickering & Chatto, London. 239 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksAnti-metrication in metre
Viewpoint: Magazine of the British Socierty for the History of Science, vol. 100, pp. 8-9Contributions to Specialist Publications: ArticlesDavid Philip Miller, James Watt, Chemist: Understanding the Origins of the Steam Age (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009)
British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 298-300Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087412000568
Carriages, coffee-cups and dynamometers: Representing French technical cultures in the London Mechanics’ Magazine, 1823-1848
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsCounting dust and domesticating clouds: inside the "outdoor physics" of John Aitken (1839-1919)
Tidsskrift for Kulturforskning, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 45-56Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDaniel Cohen, Globalization and Its Enemies (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007)
The European Legacy: Towards New Paradigms, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 748-749Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10848770903259276
Robert Fox and Graeme Gooday (eds.), Physics in Oxford 1839-1939. Laboratories, Learning, and College Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)
Ambix, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 194-195Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1179/174582309X441426
The administration of the "engineering science" of naval architecture at the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1831-1872
Jahrbuch für Europäische Verwaltungsgeschichte, vol. 20, pp. 67-94Contributions to Journals: ArticlesJohn Aitken
New Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Koertge, N. (ed.). Charles Scribner's SonsChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersGeoffrey Cantor, Quakers, Jews and Science. Religious Responses to Modernity and the Sciences in Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)
History, vol. 92, no. 305, pp. 122-124Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-229X.2007.388_37.x
Michael A. Taylor, Hugh Miller. Stonemason, Geologist, Writer (Edinburgh: NMS Enterprises Limited – Publishing, National Museums Scotland, 2007)
Northern Scotland, vol. 27, pp. 218-220Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesHasok Chang, Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress. Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 177-178Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesDeconstructing discovery: David Philip Miller, Discovering Water: James Watt, Henry Cavendish and the Nineteenth-Century ‘Water Controversy’. Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004)
Notes & Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 105-106Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2005.0122
Harro Maas, William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics. Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Isis, vol. 97, pp. 770-772Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/512902
Superseding Steam: the Napier and Rankine Hot-air Engine
Transactions of the Newcomen Society, vol. 76, no. 1, pp. 1-22Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1179/175035206X105186
Bernard P. Cronin, Technology, Industrial Conflict and the Development of Technical Education in 19th-Century England (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001)
Isis, vol. 96, no. 2, pp. 288-289Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesEngineering Empires: A Cultural History of Technology in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Palgrave Macmillan. 351 pagesBooks and Reports: Books- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230504127
'The progeny of these two "Fellows''': Robert Willis, William Whewell and the sciences of mechanism, mechanics and machinery in early Victorian Britain
British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 401-434Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087404006144
Gompertz, Lewis (1784?-1861)
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Entries for Encyclopedias and Dictionaries- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/10934
Gordon, Lewis Dunbar Brodie (1815-1876)
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Entries for Encyclopedias and Dictionaries- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/55414
Gregory, Olinthus Gilbert (1774-1841)
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Entries for Encyclopedias and Dictionaries- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/11469
Hann, James (1799-1856)
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Entries for Encyclopedias and Dictionaries- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/12206
Rankine, William John Macquorn (1820-1872)
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Entries for Encyclopedias and Dictionaries- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/23133
Robison, Sir John (1778-1843)
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Entries for Encyclopedias and Dictionaries- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/23895
Stirling, Robert (1790-1878)
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Entries for Encyclopedias and Dictionaries- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/26534
Willis, Robert (1800-1875)
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Entries for Encyclopedias and Dictionaries- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/29584
Donald Cardwell, the development of science and technology in nineteenth-century Britain: the importance of Manchester: edited by Richard L. Hills. Variorum Collected Studies Series, CS765 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003)
Notes & Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 318-320Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2004.0059
W. J. M. Rankine
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Entries for Encyclopedias and DictionariesWilliam Youatt
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Entries for Encyclopedias and DictionariesR. Angus Buchanan, The life and times of Isambard Kingdom Brunel (London and New York: Hambledon and London, 2002)
Journal of Transport History, vol. 25, pp. 112-114Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesEngineer
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Entries for Encyclopedias and DictionariesEngineering science
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Entries for Encyclopedias and DictionariesJohn Cantrell and Gillian Cookson (eds.), Henry Maudslay and the Pioneers of the Machine Age (Stroud: Tempus, 2002)
Economic History Review, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 570-571Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2003.00262.x
Gillian Cookson and Colin A. Hempstead, A Victorian Scientist and Engineer: Fleeming Jenkin and the Birth of Electrical Engineering (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000)
Ambix, vol. 49Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesWatt's Perfect Engine: Steam and the Age of Invention
Icon, Cambridge. 214 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksBrunel, Isambard Kingdom (1806-1859)
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Entries for Encyclopedias and DictionariesHarry Collins and Trevor Pinch, The Golem at Large: What You Should Know about Technology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
Annals of Science, vol. 58, pp. 440-441Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesDale H. Porter, The Life and Times of Sir Goldsworthy Gurney, Gentleman Scientist and Inventor 1793-1875 (Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press, 1998)
Ambix, vol. 47, pp. 65-66Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesEnergy
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Entries for Encyclopedias and DictionariesMusic and science: antiquity to 1700
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Entries for Encyclopedias and DictionariesMusic and science: since 1700
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Entries for Encyclopedias and DictionariesF. A. J. L. James (ed.), Semaphore to Short Waves (London: Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce, 1998)
Endeavour, vol. 23, pp. 41-42Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles'A most important trespass': Lewis Gordon and the Glasgow chair of civil engineering and mechanics, 1840-1855
Making Space for Science: Territorial Themes in the Shaping of Knowledge. Smith, C., Agar, J. (eds.). Macmillan Publishers, pp. 87-117, 31 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersBlowing hot and cold: Reports and retorts on the status of the air-engine as success of failure, 1830-1855
History of Science, vol. 36, pp. 373-420Contributions to Journals: ArticlesRobert A. Rosenberg, Paul B. Israel, Keith A. Nier, and Martha J. King (eds.), The Papers of Thomas A. Edison. Volume 3: Menlo Park: The Early Years, April 1876-December 1877 (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994)
British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 29, pp. 247-249Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesRobert Fox and Anna Guagnini (eds.), Education, Technology and Industrial Performance in Europe, 1850-1939 (Cambridge: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme and Cambridge University Press, 1993)
British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 29, pp. 110-112Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesF. A. J. L. James (ed.), The Correspondence of Michael Faraday: Volume 2, 1832-1840 (London: Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1993)
Annals of Science, vol. 52, pp. 619-621Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesHarry Collins and Trevor Pinch, The Golem: What Everyone Should Know About Science (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993)
Isis, vol. 86, pp. 357-358Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesMikael Hård, Machines are Frozen Spirit. The Scientification of Refrigeration and Brewing in the 19th Century - A Weberian Interpretation (Frankfurt: Campus Verlag and Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1994)
Science and Public Policy, vol. 22, pp. 67-69Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesLillian Hoddeson, Ernest Braun, Jürgen Teichmann, and Spencer Weart (eds.), Out of the Crystal Maze: Chapters from the History of Solid-State Physics (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1992)
Times Higher Education Supplement, pp. 26Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesA.N. Kolmogorov and A. P. Yushkevich (eds.), Mathematics of the 19th Century: Mathematical Logic, Algebra, Number Theory, Probability Theory (Basel, Boston and Berlin: Birkhauser, 1992)
British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 27, pp. 236-237Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesB. C. Blake-Coleman, Copper Wire and Electrical Conductors: The Shaping of a Technology (Chur, Reading, Paris, Philadelphia, Tokyo and Melbourne: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1992)
Science and Public Policy, vol. 21, pp. 198-200Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesForty-five biographical entries covering heat, thermodynamics, gases and acoustics
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Entries for Encyclopedias and DictionariesDaniel M. Siegel, Innovation in Maxwell’s Electromagnetic Theory: Molecular Vortices, Displacement Current, and Light (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991)
British Journal for the History of Science, pp. 116-117Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesPaul Tunbridge, Lord Kelvin: His Influence on Electrical Measurements and Units (London: Peter Peregrinus Ltd. for Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1992)
British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 26, pp. 371-372Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesRobert A. Rosenberg, Paul B. Israel, Keith A. Nier, and Melodie Andrews (eds.), The Papers of Thomas A. Edison. Volume 2: From Workshop to Laboratory, June 1873-March 1876 (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992)
British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 26, pp. 118-119Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and ArticlesEngineering science in Glasgow: Economy, efficiency and measurement as prime movers in the differentiation of an academic discipline
British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 25, pp. 319-46Contributions to Journals: ArticlesGraham Hollister-Short and Frank A.J.L. James (eds.), History of Technology, Thirteenth Annual Volume (London and New York: Mansell, 1991)
British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 25, pp. 475-476Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles