| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910672173303321 |
|
|
Autore |
Castillo Aponte José |
|
|
Titolo |
Gestión humana integral / / José Castillo Aponte |
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Bogotá : , : Ecoe Ediciones, , 2020 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
958-771-862-3 |
958-771-864-X |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 recurso en línea (291 páginas) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
Ciencias empresariales. Administración |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Manpower planning |
Personnel management |
Planificación de recursos humanos |
Administración de personal |
Libros electrónicos. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910787890403321 |
|
|
Autore |
Agar Jon. |
|
|
Titolo |
Science and spectacle : the work of Jodrell Bank in post-war British culture / / Jon Agar |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
1-317-74302-4 |
1-315-79394-6 |
1-317-74303-2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (283 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine ; ; Volume 5 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Radio astronomy - Great Britain - History - 20th century |
Science - Social aspects - Great Britain - History - 20th century |
Popular culture - Great Britain - History - 20th century |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
First published by Harwood Academic, 1998. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Cover; Science and Spectacle; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables; List of Illustrations; Preface and Introduction; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Science in Post-war Britain; The Context of British Science; The Government Funding of Science; World War II and British Science; War Research; The Promotion of Scientific Advisors in Government; The Retention of War-time Organisation; Research in Post-War Britain; Increased Expenditure on Research; The Expansion of Education; Novel Post-War Sites for Science; A Novel Popular Audience for Science? |
Histories of Radio AstronomyNarratives and Sources; The Early History of Radio Astronomy; Two Historiographies of Radio Astronomy; Organizing Work and Discovery at Jodrell Bank; Jodrell Bank Research Programmes; Research Work; Summary; Chapter 2 Funding the Spectacle of Science; A 218 Foot Paraboloid; A Large Steerable Dish; Finding an Engineer; The Scientific Grants Committee of the DSIR; Peer Support: The Royal Astronomical Society; The SGC Again; The Significances of an Expensive Instrument; The University as a Site for Science |
Instrumental Malleability: Financial Problems, the Nuffield Foundation |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
and the Ministry of SupplyThe Radio Telescope and the Financial Competence of Universities; Sputnik; The Radio Telescope Appeal; Doubts Remain; Discussion: The Contested Boundary between Government and Universities; Summary; Chapter 3 'A Great Public Spectacle': Prestige, Position and Power at Jodrell Bank; Publicity and the Management of Visitors; Photographs and the 'Grip of Publicity'; On Location: The Inquisitive Giant'; Managing the Press; The 'Problem' of Visitors Renewed |
Demonstrating the Telescope, Communicating with SatellitesSputnik Historiography; Sputnik in Britain; The Position of the Engineer; A Clear Message...: Authority and the Reith Lectures; ...and Interference: Public Actions and the Odd Letters; Discussion: Position; Chapter 4 Clearing the Air (Waves): Interference and Frequency Allocation for Radio Astronomy; The National and International Regulation of Radio; The Metaphor of Space - the Spectrum Reified; Radio Frequencies and the New Radio Astronomy; Stage One: Outsiders Seeking the Allocation of Frequencies; A New Ally: The Royal Society |
Territorial Expansion, Occupation of the Spectrum and a Suggested SalientThe Outsiders Come In; Stage Two: Insiders; Interlude: Cambridge, Jodrell Bank and the Gee Chain; Stage Three: The International Allocation of Frequencies; Conclusion; Chapter 5 Clearing the Ground: Bodily Control, the Radio Telescope and the Environment; Internal Discipline; The First Conflicts Over Local Development; The Electrification of the Railways and Grid Lines; Local Development Again; The Codification is Challenged: Appeals Against the Zones; The Legal 'Safeguarding of the Jodrell Bank Radio Telescopes' |
Conclusion |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
Science and Spectacle relates the construction of the telescope to the politics and culture of post-war Britain. From radar and atomic weapons, to the Festival of Britain and, later, Harold Wilson's rhetoric of scientific revolution, science formed a cultural resource from which post-war careers and a national identity could be built. The Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope was once a symbol of British science and a much needed prestigious project for the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, but it also raised questions regarding the proper role of universities as sites for scie |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |