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Journal articles
2020, 'A new perspective on the natural philosophy of steams and its relation to the steam engine', Technology and Culture, 61, pp. 1129 - 1148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.2020.0113
,2020, 'A ‘revolver’ evolving: the careers of a Boulton & Watt rotative steam engine at the Whitbread Brewery, London and the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, 1784–2020', International Journal for the History of Engineering and Technology, pp. 238 - 263, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17581206.2020.1782619
,2017, 'The story of ‘scientist: The story of a word’', Annals of Science, 74, pp. 255 - 261, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2017.1390155
,2017, 'Winner of the Annals of Science Prize for 2016.', Ann Sci, 74, pp. 253, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2017.1366152
,2016, 'Of patents, principles, and the construction of heroic invention: The case of Neilson's hot blast in iron production', Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 160, pp. 361 - 422
,2016, 'Review of Hjalmar Fors, The Limits of Matter. Chemistry, Mining & Enlightenment', Annals of Science: a review of the history of science since the thirteenth century, 73, pp. 110 - 112
,2016, 'The Limits of Matter. Chemistry, Mining & Enlightenment', ANNALS OF SCIENCE, 73, pp. 110 - 112, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2015.1064997
,2015, 'Review of Neil Chambers, The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, vols 7 and 8', Isis: international review devoted to the history of science and its cultural influences, 106, pp. 924 - 925
,2015, 'The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768-1820, vol 7', ISIS, 106, pp. 924 - 925, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000369575200039&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2015, 'The Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768-1820, vol 8', ISIS, 106, pp. 924 - 925, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000369575200040&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2015, 'David Roger Oldroyd (20 January 1936--7 November 2014) An Appreciation.', Ann Sci, 72, pp. 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2015.994863
,2015, 'David Roger Oldroyd 1936–2014 [Obituary]', Australian Academy of Humanities, Annual Report, 2014-15, pp. 44 - 46
,2015, 'Ivor Owen Grattan-Guinness (1941-2014).', Ann Sci, 72, pp. 276 - 278, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2015.1034782
,2014, 'Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond.', AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, 60, pp. 501 - 502, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000342625400043&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2013, 'Is Water H2O? Evidence, Realism and Pluralism', AMBIX, 60, pp. 295 - 296, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000322369400010&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2012, 'Progressive Enlightenment: The Origins of the Gaslight Industry, 1780-1820.', BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE, 45, pp. 466 - 467, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087412000891
,2012, 'TESTING POWER AND TRUST: THE STEAM INDICATOR, THE 'REYNOLDS CONTROVERSY', AND THE RELATIONS OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND PRACTICE IN LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN', HISTORY OF SCIENCE, 50, pp. 212 - 250, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/007327531205000204
,2012, 'The Historiography of the Chemical Revolution: Patterns of Interpretation in the History of Science', ANNALS OF SCIENCE, 69, pp. 581 - 584, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2011.627454
,2012, 'Climate engineering, past and present', Metascience, 21, pp. 243 - 245, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11016-011-9576-7
,2012, 'Testing Power and Trust: The Steam Indicator, the 'Reynolds Controversy' and Engineering Science and Practice in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain', History of Science, 50, pp. 212 - 250
,2011, 'Pursuing Power and Light: Technology and Physics from James Watt to Albert Einstein', BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE, 44, pp. 609 - 610, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007087411001130
,2011, 'History from Between', TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE, 52, pp. 610 - 613, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.2011.0109
,2011, 'The Singular and the Making of Knowledge at the Royal Society of London in the Eighteenth Century', ANNALS OF SCIENCE, 68, pp. 563 - 565, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00033790903243365
,2011, 'The Mysterious Case of James Watt's '"1785" Steam Indicator': Forgery or Folklore in the HIstory of an Instrument?', Transactions of the Newcomen Society, 81, pp. 129 - 150, http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/175812110X12869022260231
,2011, 'The Paradoxes of Patenting at General Electric: Isador Ladoff's Journey from Siberian Exile to the Heart of Corporate Capitalism', Isis, 102, pp. 634 - 658
,2011, 'The political economy of discovery stories: The case of Dr Irving Langmuir and general electric', Annals of Science, 68, pp. 27 - 60, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00033791003761926
,2010, 'The Making of Modern Science: Science, Technology, Medicine and Modernity: 1789-1914', SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE, 23, pp. 421 - 422, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkq017
,2010, 'The Language of Mineralogy: John Walker, Chemistry, and the Edinburgh Medical School, 1750-1800.', ISIS, 101, pp. 218 - 219, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/653876
,2010, 'Mannered science and political identity', Metascience, 19, pp. 133 - 135, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11016-010-9351-1
,2009, 'Scales of Justice: Assaying Matthew Boulton's Reputation and the Partnership of Boulton and Watt', Midland History, 34, pp. 58 - 76, http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/175638109X406587
,2009, 'Tides of History: Ocean Science and Her Majesty`s Navy', Isis, 100, pp. 429 - 430
,2008, '"Inhale it and See?" The Collaboration between Thomas Beddoes and James Watt in Pneumatic Medicine', AMBIX, 55, pp. 5 - 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/174582308X255389
,2008, 'Joseph Banks and the British Museum: the world of collecting', ISIS, 99, pp. 175 - 176, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/589355
,2008, '`Inhale it and See?` the collaboration between Thomas Beddoes and James Watt in pneumatic medicine', Ambix, 55, pp. 5 - 28
,2008, 'Intellectual property and narratives of discovery/invention: The League of Nations` draft convention on `scientific property` and its fate', History of Science, 46, pp. 299 - 342
,2008, 'Principle, practice and persona in Isambard Kingdom Brunel`s patent abolitionism', British Journal for the History of Science, 41, pp. 43 - 72
,2008, 'Review of Neil Chambers, Joseph Banks and the British Museum', Isis, 99, pp. 175 - 176
,2008, 'Seeing the chemical steam through the historical fog: Watt`s steam engine as chemistry', Annals of Science, 65, pp. 47 - 72, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00033790701503127
,2007, 'Charles Darwin, geologist', American Historical Review, 112, pp. 272 - 272
,2007, 'Science and beliefs: From natural philosophy to natural science, 1700-1900', Annals of Science, 64, pp. 120 - 122
,2006, 'The last man who knew everything: Thomas Young, the anonymous polymath who proved Newton wrong, explained how we see, cured the sick, and deciphered the Rosetta Stone, among other feats of genius', Nature, 441, pp. 409 - 409
,2005, 'Speculative truth: Henry Cavendish, natural philosophy, and the rise of modern theoretical science', Annals of Science, 62, pp. 546 - 547
,2004, 'True myths: James Watt's kettle, his condenser, and his chemistry', HISTORY OF SCIENCE, 42, pp. 333 - 360, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/007327530404200304
,2004, 'Absolutely fabulous history of science?', Social Studies of Science, 34, pp. 453 - 459
,2004, 'Barrington, Daines (1727/8-1800)', New Dictionary of National Biography, 21, pp. 63 - 65
,2004, 'Birch, Thomas (1705-1766)', New Dictionary of National Biography, 21, pp. 802 - 803
,2004, 'Blagden, Charles (bap. 1748, d. 1820)', New Dictionary of National Biography, 21, pp. 59 - 60
,2004, 'Fabulous science: Fact and fiction in the history of scientific discovery', Social Studies of Science, 34, pp. 453 - 459
,2004, 'Gilbert (Giddy), Davies (1767-1839)', New Dictionary of National Biography, 21, pp. 172 - 174
,2004, 'Gompertz, Benjamin (1779-1865)', New Dictionary of National Biography, 21, pp. 720 - 721
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