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Ivory towers? The commercial activity of British professors of engineering and physics, 1880–1914

Anna GuagniniDipartimento di Filosofia e Comunicazione, Università di Bologna, Bologna, ItalyCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 70-108 | Published online: 06 Jul 2017

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