Search for dissertations about: "history of modern Swedish science"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 27 swedish dissertations containing the words history of modern Swedish science.

  2. 1. Embracing Science : Sino-Swedish Collaborations in the Field Sciences, 1902–1935

    Author : Jan Romgard; Marja Kaikkonen; Stephen Morgan; Hans Ulrich Vogel; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Republican China; history of science; Geological Survey of China; Academia Sinica; Ding Wenjiang; Weng Wenhao; geology; palaeontology; archaeology; palaeoanthropology; geography; modernization; nationalism; scientific communities; international collaboration; Johan Gunnar Andersson; Sven Hedin; Erik Nyström; Swedish Museum of Natural History; Sino-Swedish Expedition; Central Asia; Asian Languages and Cultures; Asiens språk och kulturer;

    Abstract : In 1902, a Swedish professor at Shanxi University started to study the region’s geology and in 1913, he suggested to the Chinese Republican Government an expansion of these surveys nationwide. As a result, the Head of the Geological Survey of Sweden, J. G. Andersson, was employed as a geological adviser to the Chinese Government. READ MORE

  4. 2. Making Reindeer : The Negotiation of an Arctic Animal in Modern Swedish Sápmi, 1920-2020

    Author : Corinna Röver; Sverker Sörlin; Dag Avango; Per Axelsson; Annika Nilsson; David G. Anderson; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Animal history; Reindeer; Sápmi; Arctic humanities; Chernobyl; Slow Food Sápmi; Arctic resources; Reindeer husbandry; Rationalization; Djurhistoria; Renar; Sápmi; Tjernobyl; Arktisk humaniora; Slow Food Sápmi; Renskötsel; Rennäring; Rationalisering; Arktiska resurser; Historiska studier av teknik; vetenskap och miljö; History of Science; Technology and Environment;

    Abstract : The Arctic has long been perceived as a static, timeless place of shielded wilderness. This perception extended to the reindeer as both part of the Arctic environment and of traditional Indigenous livelihoods. READ MORE

  5. 3. Constructing a Pipe-Bound City : A History of Water Supply, Sewerage, and Excreta Removal in Norrköping and Linköping, Sweden, 1860-1910

    Author : Jonas Hallström; Jan-Olof Drangert; Marie C. Nelson; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; water supply; sewerage; waste disposal; actor-network theory; urban history; environmental history; history of technology; history of public health; vatten och avlopp; vattenförsörjning; avfallshantering; hitstoria; Sverige; History; Historia;

    Abstract : In the mid- to late 19th century, modern pipe-bound water and sewer systems proliferated in European cities, a development that has sometimes been regarded as a necessary result of a sanitary awakening and the progress of science and technology. By analyzing the introduction and subsequent expansion of water, sewerage, and excreta collection on the local level, in the Swedish cities Norrköping and Linköping, this oversimplified picture is questioned. READ MORE

  6. 4. Landscapes of Technology Transfer : Swedish Ironmakers in India 1860–1864

    Author : Jan Af Geijerstam; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; History of technology; industrial heritage studies; industrial archaeology; technology transfer; diffusion; technological systems; landscapes of technology; iron and steel; charcoal iron; direct and indirect ironmaking; bloomeries; 19th century; indu; Historiska studier av teknik; vetenskap och miljö; History of Science; Technology and Environment;

    Abstract : In the early 1860s three Swedes, Nils Wilhelm Mitander,Julius Ramsay and Gustaf Wittenström, were engaged by theBritish to build and run charcoal-based ironworks in India.These works, the Burwai Iron Works of the British Government inthe case of Mitander and the privately owned Kumaon Iron Worksin the case of Ramsay and Wittenström, were both to bebased on the most modern European technology. READ MORE

  7. 5. The Role of History in the Modern Company : Ericsson and the Past

    Author : Brita Lundström; KTH; []
    Keywords : industrial history; history of technology; cultural history; use of history; business history; corporate identity; factory buildings; modernism; telecommunication; Ericsson; Telefonplan Midsommarkransen ; Kista; Stockholm; National Museum of Science;

    Abstract : The overall purpose of the thesis is to discuss the presenceand influence of the commercial use of history in modernindustrial companies and history's role in creating andchanging corporate identity. More specifically the aim is toanalyse the way the Swedish telecom company Ericsson has madeuse of its history at three different occasions. READ MORE