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Science, Technology and Education: The development of scientificresearch in modern universities - a comparative study of motives andopportunities; Reflections on some problems in the history of science; Theacademic study of the history of technology; Science, technology andindustry; The two-way mirror. Power Technologies, Thermodynamics andElectricity: Power technologies and the advance of science, 1700-1825; Powerand textiles in the Industrial Revolution; Thermodynamics and practicalengineering in the 19th century; Science and technology - the work of JamesPrescott Joule; Science and the steam engine in the early-19th centuryreconsidered; Industry, thermodynamics and society in the 19th century; Steamengine theory in the 19th century - from duty to thermal efficiency; fromParkes to Sankey; On Michael Faraday, Henry Wilde and the dynamo. TheImportance of Manchester: Science and the European tragedies; The patronageof science in 19th century Manchester; Two centuries of the Manchester Lit. &Phil.; They made Manchester; Thoughts on voluntary scientific societies fromthe time of de Magalhaes to the present day.