The Japanese Connexion: Engineering in Tokyo, London, and Glasgow at the End of the Nineteenth Century

British Journal for the History of Science 14 (3):227-244 (1981)
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That the export of Scottish engineers and engineering teachers to Japan in the 1870s aided that country's astonishingly rapid process of modernization from a feudal to a capitalist, industrialized society will not occasion surprise or dissent. As the Japan weekly mail editorialized in 1878: In no direction has Japan symbolised her advance towards assimilation of the civilisation of the Western world more emphatically than in that of applied science

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