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According to Wikipedia, David Edgerton FBA is an English historian and educator. He was educated at St John's College, Oxford, and Imperial College London. After teaching the economics of science and technology and the history of science and technology at the University of Manchester, he became the founding director of the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at Imperial College, London, and Hans Rausing Professor. He has held a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust. In 2013, he led the move of the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine to the Department of History of King's College London.

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The Shock Of The Old: Technology and Global History since 1900 (2019) (257)
From innovation to use: Ten eclectic theses on the historiography of technology (1999) (168)
Warfare State: Britain, 1920-1970 (2006) (156)
Invention of tradition (1991) (110)
Shock of the new (1995) (105)
‘The linear model’ did not exist: Reflections on the history and historiography of science and research in industry in the twentieth century (2004) (105)
Innovation, Technology, or History: What is the Historiography of Technology About? (2010) (103)
British industrial research and development before 1945 (1994) (92)
The ‘White Heat’ Revisited: The British Government and Technology in the 1960s (1996) (71)
The Shock of the Old (2006) (59)
The Contradictions of Techno-Nationalism and Techno-Globalism: A Historical Perspective (2007) (57)
Liberal militarism and the British state (1991) (53)
England and the aeroplane: an essay on a militant and technological nation (1992) (53)
Self-fulfilling prophecies (1996) (49)
Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources, and Experts in the Second World War (2011) (41)
Creole technologies and global histories: rethinking how things travel in space and time (2007) (34)
The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: a Twentieth Century History (2020) (30)
Men, Ideas, and Tanks: British Military Thought and Armoured Forces, 1903–1939 by J. P. Harris (1995) (29)
Science and Technology in British Business History (1987) (29)
Biographical dictionary of the history of technology (1997) (28)
British scientific intellectuals and the relations of science, technology and war (1996) (26)
England And The Aeroplane (1991) (24)
THE POVERTY OF SCIENCE: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY UNDER MRS THATCHER (1989) (24)
England and the aeroplane : militarism, modernity and machines (2013) (21)
British Industrial R. and D. 1900-1970. (1994) (20)
The Prophet Militant and Industrial: The Peculiarities of Correlli Barnett (1991) (20)
Science and the nation: towards new histories of twentieth‐Century Britain* (2005) (16)
Innovation and technology in Europe : from the eighteenth century to the present day (1993) (16)
Technical Innovation, Industrial Capacity and Efficiency: Public Ownership and the British Military Aircraft Industry, 1935–48 (1984) (15)
C. P. Snow as Anti-Historian of British Science: Revisiting the Technocratic Moment, 1959–1964 (2005) (15)
Porton Down: 75 Years of Chemical and Biological Research (1995) (14)
The Rise and Fall of the British Nation (2019) (14)
Technophobia then and now (1995) (13)
The Decline of Declinism (1997) (13)
The charge of technology (2008) (12)
Tilting at paper tigers (1993) (12)
Armstrongs of Elswick : growth in engineering and armaments to the merger with Vickers (1990) (11)
The electric vehicle: technology and expectations in the automobile age (2005) (10)
Time, Money, and History (2012) (9)
In praise of Luddism (2011) (8)
Blackett: Physics, War, and Politics in the Twentieth Century (2005) (8)
The Science-Industry Nexus: History, Policy, Implications. (2004) (8)
The Precision Makers: A History of the Instruments Industry in Britain and France, 1870-1939. Mari E. W. Williams (1996) (7)
Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900 (re-issue) (2019) (7)
Industrial Research and Innovation in Business (1998) (7)
Gassed: British Chemical Warfare Experiments on Humans at Porton Down (2002) (6)
T. S. Ashton Prize Essay for 1991-2: British Industrial Research and Development before 1945 (1994) (6)
War, Reconstruction, and the Nationalization of Britain, 1939–1951 (2011) (6)
The Determinants of Bank Failure : the Evidence from Ukraine and Russia (2009) (4)
The Strange Survival of Liberal England: Political Leaders, Moral Values and the Reception of Economic Debate (2008) (4)
The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Science (2017) (4)
Warfare and Welfare (2018) (3)
The Nationalisation of British History: Historians, Nationalism and the Myths of 1940 (2021) (3)
Tony Blair's warfare state (1998) (3)
State intervention in British manufacturing industry, 1931-1951 : a comparative study of policy for the military aircraft and cotton textile industries (1986) (3)
Over to EU: Review of Continental Drift: Britain and Europe from the End of Empire to the Rise of Euroscepticism By Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon Cambridge University Press and Britain's Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation By Brendan Simms (2016) (2)
The Relationship between Military and Civil Technology: A Historical Perspective (1988) (2)
The British military-industrial complex in history: The importance of political economy (2008) (2)
Controlling resources: coal, iron-ore and oil in the Second World War (2015) (2)
Extensions to the Common Model (1996) (2)
War and the Development of the British Welfare State (2018) (2)
John Law, Aircraft Stories: Decentering The Object In Technoscience (2003) (1)
The State, War and Technical Innovation in Great Britain, 1930–50: the Contrasts of Military and Civil Industry (1990) (1)
Merritt Roe Smith (ed.) Military Enterprise and Technological Change: Perspectives on the American Experience . Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1985. Pp. 391. £29.95. (1987) (1)
The Cambridge History of Science: volume VIII Modern Science in National, Transnational, and Global Context (2018) (1)
Brexit is a necessary crisis – it reveals Britain’s true place in the world (2019) (1)
The Primacy of Foreign Policy in British History, 1660-2000 (2010) (1)
When it comes to national emergencies, Britain has a tradition of cold calculation (2020) (1)
Public ownership and the British arms industry 1920–50 (1995) (1)
The Idea of Deep Continuity in British History is Absurd (2018) (1)
Drawings that Count (2013) (1)
Time for evidence based research policy (2016) (1)
1956: the year of living dangerously (2016) (1)
Myths, Gender and the Military Conquest of Air and Sea (2016) (1)
The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History (paperback) (2019) (1)
Military technology: Science in the trenches (2014) (1)
The Sonic Boom of the Scientific Revolution (1991) (1)
Review: What We Have Lost: The Dismantling of Great Britain by James Hamilton-Paterson — where have all the factories gone? (2018) (1)
Merrit Roe Smith and Leo Marx (eds.), Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism . Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 1994. Pp. xv + 280. ISBN 0-262-19347-7, £31.50 (hardback); 0-262-69167-1, £14.95 (paperback). (1995) (1)
What came between Liberalism and Neo-Liberalism? Rethinking Keynesianism, the welfare state and British Social Democracy (2020) (0)
At last, the truth can be told about Armageddon (2018) (0)
'Flying Boats' and 'Oil from Coal' (2021) (0)
Shadows of Empire – a review (2018) (0)
Jacob Bronowski: the complex life of a science popularizer (2019) (0)
The Brexiteers’ greatest trick was convincing the old they hated Brussels more than London (2019) (0)
United Kingdom (2020) (0)
Book Review (2005) (0)
Why does the left ignore the British nationalism of the post-war government? (2018) (0)
Book Reviews I 622 England and the Aeroplane: An Essay on a Militant and Tech- (2011) (0)
Science and War (2020) (0)
The stuff of technofantasy (2007) (0)
Translation of Warfare State. (2017) (0)
How Britain was sold: Why we need to rethink the case for a national capitalism in the age of uncertainty. (2019) (0)
The British Aircraft Industry. By Keith Hayward · New York: Manchester University Press, 1989. xvi + 221 pp. Charts, tables, notes, and selected bibliography. $59.95 (1991) (0)
Bernhard Rieger. Technology and the Culture of Modernity in Britain and Germany, 1890–1945. New Studies in European History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. x+319. $90.00 (cloth). (2006) (0)
老科技的全球史 (Translation of Shock of the Old - simplified Chinese) (2019) (0)
. By Steven Yearley. (London. Unwin Hyman. 1988. pp.199. £25.00 Hardback. £8.95 paperback) (1989) (0)
Testing Adding Up in the Common Model (1996) (0)
John M. Staudenmaier. Technology's Storytellers: Reweaving the Human Fabric. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Society for the History of Technology and the MIT Press, 1985. Pp. xxvii + 282. ISBN 0-262-19237-3. £39.25. (1987) (0)
Laura Garwin and Tim Lincoln (eds), A century of nature: twenty-one discoveries that changed science and the world , Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2003, pp. xviii, 360, £17.50, US $25.00 (paperback 0-226-28415-8). (2005) (0)
The Primacy of Foreign Policy? Britain in the Second World War (2010) (0)
Rethinking Britain: ruptures and global connections (2020) (0)
Going up for Air (1991) (0)
Devil's Advocates (Chief Scientific Advisers) (2014) (0)
Understanding decline: perceptions and realities of British economic performance. Edited by Peter Clarke and Clive Trebilcock. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi+313. ISBN 0-521-56317-8. £40.00. (1999) (0)
Science, Technolgy and Medicine in Britain, 1750-2000 (2009) (0)
Book reviews (2003) (0)
Labour has to free itself from the shackles of its own invented histories (2020) (0)
G UY H ARTCUP , The Effect of Science on the Second World War. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xvii+214. ISBN 1-4039-0643-2. £17.99 (paperback). (2004) (0)
The Misremembered Empire (2019) (0)
Technology and Empire (1991) (0)
Haldane principle’s ‘centenary’ is a good time to bury its myth (2018) (0)
What was modernity (2014) (0)
Creole Technologies: Extract from paper first published in History of Science and Technology 2007 (2017) (0)
Elites and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century, by Jost Duelffer and Marc Frey (2014) (0)
Shock of the Old, or, the Uruguayan view of world history (2008) (0)
Michael Adas, Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission . Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. 542. ISBN 0-674-01876-2. £18.95, $29.95, €25.50 (hardback). (2008) (0)
Technology in Postwar America: A History (review) (2008) (0)
Unpublished Contribution to Book (2008) (0)
What has British science policy really been (2019) (0)
Knowing the technological future (1994) (0)
The United Kingdom's disappearing wartime imports 1939–45: A statistical, ideological, and historiographical accounting (2023) (0)
A Mixed Career: The World Made New. (1996) (0)
Spin-off from British and German Aircraft Technology after the Great War (1995) (0)
The stuffof technofantasy (2007) (0)
Extract from Quoi de Neuf (2018) (0)
L'Etat entrepreneur de science (2015) (0)
R&D for industry. A century of technical innovation at Alcoa: By Margaret B. W. Graham and Bettye H. Pruitt. Pp. 643. Cambridge University Press. 1990. £50.00, US $49.50 (1991) (0)
Book reviews: Biographies (1995) (0)
Book Reviews (2007) (0)
Never Alone and Always Strong: The British War Economy in 1940 and After (2020) (0)
The train not now leaving this platform (1997) (0)
Research with a vengeance (1995) (0)
The Strange Birth of Aeronautical England (1991) (0)
FALKLAND ISLANDS-Field Day for British Hypocrisy (1982) (0)
Brexit is not a product of history: it’s something entirely new (2019) (0)
The Wellcome Fall of the UK: (NB different title in electronic version) (2020) (0)
Money Talk review of Nine Crises: Fifty Years of Covering the British Economy from Devaluation to Brexit, by William Keegan (2019) (0)
Leonard S. Reich. The Making of American Industrial Research: Science and Business at GE and Bell, 1876–1926. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xvi + 309. ISBN 0-521-30529-2. Price £25.00, $24.95. (1987) (0)
The Oxford Illustrated History of World War Two (2015) (0)
Lance Day and Ian McNeil (eds), Biographical dictionary of the history of technology , London and New York, Routledge, 1996, pp. xiii, 844, £85.00 (0-415-06042-7). (1997) (0)
Books in brief (2011) (0)
Barnett's audit of war: An audit (1990) (0)
Doomed to failure? Wilson’s ‘white heat of the scientific revolution’ and renewal of Britain (2014) (0)
The New Age of Autarky (2020) (0)
Colin Chant (ed.). Science and Technology in Everyday Life . London: Routledge in association with the Open University, 1989. Pp. 391. (Hardback). ISBN 0-415-00037-8. £40.00. (Paperback) 0-415-03557-0. £14.95. (1990) (0)
And the Word became Technology (2013) (0)
The Political Economy of Science (2017) (0)
Book Review: Army, Empire, and Cold War: The British Army and Military Policy, 1945–1971 by David French (2013) (0)
Over to EU (2016) (0)
‘Science, Technology and Medicine in the United Kingdom, 1750-2000’, unpublished paper (2008). (2008) (0)
The Many and the Few (1991) (0)
Harald Penrose. An Ancient Air: A Biography of John Stringfellow of Chard, the Victorian Aeronautical Pioneer . Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988. Pp. 183. ISBN 0-87474-752-X. $22.50. (1990) (0)

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Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources, and Experts in the Second World War