Böcker av Michael Gibbons

Kelvin Hughes: Radar Navigation Aid - Lambeg Industrial Research Association and McCleery and L'Amie: The ATOZ Process - Lucas Aerospace: Brushless Generators for Aircraft - The Introduction of Semiconductor Technology at Joseph Lucas (Electrical) - Lytag: Lightweight Aggregate from Pulverised Fuel Ash - The Marconi Company: The Mark VII Television Camera - The Martin Baker Aircraft Company: Aircraft Ejection Seats - Mirlees Blackstone: Large Diesel Engines of Medium Speed - Oxford Instruments: High Magnetic Fields and Low Temperatures - Plasticisers: Synthetic Material for Cordage - Renold Power Transmission (Holroyd Machine Tools and Rotors): Rotor Milling Machines - Shorts: Seacat Guided Weapon System - The 600: New Methods of Lathe Manufacturing - Smiths Industries: Aircraft Automatic Landing Equipment - Vosper Thornycroft (UK) Limited: Gas-Turbine Powered Fast Patrol Boats - Beecham Group: New Antibiotics - Bonas Machine Company: Shuttleless Looms - Sanders and Forster: Structural Steelwork - Thorium: Rare Earth Separation - References - Index

There are fundamental changes in the ways in which scientific, social and cultural knowledge is produced. The book shows how this trend marks a distinct shift towards a new mode of knowledge production which is replacing or reforming established institutions, disciplines, practices and policies.