Title The Brennan torpedo, monorail and helicopter : a study of innovative activity in the process of forming three related military weapons / Michael Kitson

Published [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1999

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Description xii, 342 pages : illustrations, map ; 30 cm Summary In the context of nineteenth-century British defence planning Actor-network theory is used to examine technological and social activity in the development and operation of a secret, successful military weapon, the Brennan torpedo. Also in two subsequent inventions the continuity and development of a core innovative concept, gyroscopy, is traced Notes Submitted to the School of Australian and International Studies of the Faculty of Arts, Deakin University Thesis (Ph.D.)--Deakin University, Victoria, 1999 Bibliography Bibliography: pages 333-342 Subject Brennan, Louis, 1852-1932. Action theory. Gyroscopes -- Design and construction. Helicopters -- History. Monorail railroads. Technological innovations -- Social aspects. Technology -- Social aspects. Torpedoes -- History -- 19th century. Genre/Form Academic theses. Author Deakin University. Faculty of Arts. Deakin University. School of Australian and International Studies.

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