Scientific Americans – Invention, Technology, and National Identity Branson

Scientific Americans\nby Susan Branson\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Susan Branson\nTitle: Scientific Americans\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of science\nPublisher: Cornell University Press\nPublication year: 2022\nISBN-13: 9781501760914\nISBN-10: 1501760912\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nIn Scientific Americans, Susan Branson explores the place of science and technology in American efforts to achieve cultural independence from Europe and America''s nation building in the early republic and antebellum eras. This engaging tour of scientific education and practices among ordinary citizens charts the development of nationalism and national identity alongside roads, rails, and machines.\nScientific Americans shows how informal scientific education provided by alm.