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Technological Nocturne The Lisbon Industrial Institute and Romantic Engineering (1849-1888)
Technology and culture, v 58(2), pp 422-458
01 Apr 2017
PMID: 28649114
Abstract
This article explores technology as romantic culture in the second half of the nineteenth century. It details how new urban nocturnal experiences emerged from the Lisbon Industrial Institute (Instituto Industrial) founded in 1852. It combines the interest in the space of science production, typical of history of science and science studies, with the attention to production and consumption of lighting more commonly found in history of technology and urban history literature. Engineers' practices are put in a cultural continuum with poetry, opera, and modern city life at large. Industrial Institute directors Vitorino Darnasio and Fonseca Benevides are described as romantic engineers for whom technology overcame differences between humans through the forging of new social bonds, produced new aesthetic experiences and new ways of feeling, expressed nature's harmony, and led to heroic lives.
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- Title
- Technological Nocturne The Lisbon Industrial Institute and Romantic Engineering (1849-1888)
- Creators
- Tiago Saraiva - Drexel UniversityAna Cardoso de Matos - Univ Evora, Dept Hist, Evora, Portugal
- Publication Details
- Technology and culture, v 58(2), pp 422-458
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins Univ Press
- Number of pages
- 37
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- History
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000403529000005
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85022061680
- Other Identifier
- 991019167598504721
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- History & Philosophy Of Science