Manchester Region History Review
Volume 18
2007
http://www.mcrh.mmu.ac.uk/pubs/mrhrind.htm
THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE NORTH WEST
Guest edited by Professor John Pickstone
CONTENTS
John V. Pickstone
- Editorial
John V. Pickstone
- Science and technology in Manchester: an introduction to the history
Allan Chapman
- Under a Lancashire heaven: William Crabtree, Jeremiah Horrocks and
their circle, and the origins of research astronomy in
seventeenth-century England
Richard Hills
- Richard Roberts (1789-1864), pioneer of production engineering in
Manchester
Graeme Gooday
- Cosmos, climate and culture: Manchester meteorology made universal
Tim Cooper
- The early development of scientific research in industry: the case of
Metropolitan-Vickers Ltd, 1901-1933
Mary Jo Nye
- Manchester friends at odds: Michael Polanyi, P.M.S. Blackett and the
scientist as political speaker
Samuel J.M.M. Alberti
- Molluscs, mummies and moon rock: the Manchester Museum and Manchester
science
Francis Neary
- Exhibition review: ‘Manchester Science: Discoveries that changed the
World’, Manchester Museum of Science and Industry
Jan Hargreaves
- The Collections Centre at the Museum of Science and Industry in
Manchester
Kevin Kilburn
- Manchester Astronomical Society
Long Reviews
Short reviews
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Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
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