1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910346832003321

Autore

Linke Torsten

Titolo

Sexualität und Familie : Möglichkeiten sexueller Bildung im Rahmen erzieherischer Hilfen / / Torsten Linke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Giessen : , : Psychosozial-Verlag, , 2015

ISBN

3-8379-6943-6

Edizione

[Originalausgabe.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (109 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Angewandte Sexualwissenschaft ; ; Band 1

Disciplina

306.70835

Soggetti

Sex instruction for youth

Sex instruction for children

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-109).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780802903321

Autore

Loadman John

Titolo

The Hancocks of Marlborough [[electronic resource] ] : rubber, art and the industrial revolution : a family of inventive genius / / John Loadman and Francis James

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010

ISBN

1-383-04665-4

0-19-158041-4

1-282-34673-3

9786612346736

0-19-157441-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

JamesFrancis

Disciplina

609.2/242

B

Soggetti

Inventors - England - Marlborough

Rubber industry and trade - Great Britain - History

Industrial revolution - Great Britain - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Family Tree; 1. Marlborough, Wiltshire-Roots; 2. The Hancocks Gather in London; 3. From Seawater to Steam; 4. Life, Death, and Bankruptcy; 5. The Family, the Law, and the End of a Dream; 6. Life's Ups and Downs; 7. A New Industry; 8. Gutta Percha Comes to Town; 9. The Great Hose Controversy; 10. The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations; 11. Back to the Courts; 12. A Life of Ease(?); 13. Death and Dispositions; 14. Marlborough Cottage and the Great Aunts; 15. The Hancock Legacy; 16. James Lyne Hancock & Co.

Epilogue: Thoughts on a DynastyReferences and Source Documents; Notes; Appendix I: The 14 patents of Thomas Hancock 'for the treatment and application of INDIA RUBBER'; Appendix II: Mechanical applications of vulcanized India rubber as described by Thomas Hancock; Appendix III: The evolution of the rubber industry of today; Bibliography; Index



Sommario/riassunto

This book began with the aim of telling the almost forgotten story of Thomas Hancock, the rubber developer who in his own day was acknowledged as one of the great scientific pioneers of the Industrial Revolution. But as research progressed, it was clear that Thomas and his five brothers, the Hancocks of Marlborough, together constituted a unique family which made a tremendous yet virtually unknown contribution to nineteenth-century science and art. Walter designed and ranthe first steam carriages to carry passengers on the common roads of England and so began the age of mechanized transport. T