By John Agar
ISBN-10: 9057022583
ISBN-13: 9789057022586
Science and Spectacle relates the development of the telescope to the politics and tradition of post-war Britain. From radar and atomic guns, to the competition of england and, later, Harold Wilson's rhetoric of clinical revolution, technological know-how shaped a cultural source from which post-war careers and a countrywide id might be equipped. The Jodrell financial institution Radio Telescope used to be an emblem of British technological know-how and a far wanted prestigious undertaking for the dep. of medical and commercial learn, however it additionally raised questions in regards to the right position of universities as websites for clinical study.
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At Manchester, too, physicists returned to the university department. Langworthy Professor in Physics, Patrick Blackett returned to resume active directorship of the physics laboratories having had a good war: serving on the Maud Committee on nuclear weapons and the Ministry of Supply RDF Applications Committee, as weIl well as conducting influential research and development at RAE, AA Command, Coastal Command and the Admiralty, where he was Director of Naval Operational Research. , 'Development of solar radio astronomy in Japan up until 1960', in Sullivan (1984).
The second strand was the trajectory of rocket technology, passing at the war's end from the V2 engineers at Peenemunde to a welcoming Russia and the United States, and thence in part to Britain. 64 This historiography of fortune should not obscure the networks of contacts that cemented post-war science. In 1953, the Ministry of Supply made rockets (now thoroughly tested at RAE) available to university scientists. Scientists at Queen's University, Belfast, University College of Wales, Birmingham University, and Imperial College all expressed enthusiasm.
27 28 29 Vig (1968), p. 13. Rose and Rose (1969), p. 59. Vig (1968), p. 14. ,0 Barnet has argued the paradoxical claim that this 'New Jerusalem' culture of planning contined conti ned within it a blinked anti-technical education bias. , of War: the Illusion and Reality oi of Britain as a Great Nation, 1986. The Audit oi London: Papermac. Science in Post-war Britain 9 Increased Expenditure on Research Although expenditure increased, the structure that channelled the funds remained largely unchanged.
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