The Applied-Science Problem

Papers from a conference at Stevens Institute of Technology. Contents: Contents: James E. McClellan III, What's Problematic about Applied Science -- Lisa M. Dolling, Practical Arrangements and Fictitious Use: Bohr's Photon Box -- Harold Dorn, Simultaneity, Serendipity, and Steel: The Case of the Kelly-Bessemer Process -- M. Akif Kirecci, A Book of Automata from 13th century Turkey: Al-Jazari's The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices -- Sarah Lowengard, George Berg, Musician and Glassmaking Student: Scientific Learning for Technological Applications in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London -- James E. McClellan III, Benjamin Franklin and the Lightning Rod -- Keith A. Nier, Beyond Platonic Prejudice: A Laboratory Perspective on Science as a Subset of Technology -- Philip R. Reilly, The How of Biotechnology -- George Smith, Juice?: Some Recent Discussions of Creativity in Technology -- Nick Taylor, LASER: The Inventor, the Nobel Laureate, and the Thirty Year Patent War