An engineer in the universal exposure: André Rebouças and the ghost of the technique

Authors

  • Alfredo Cordivola

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/sig.v13i1.7287

Abstract

This essay focuses on a travel notebook written by the engineer André Rebouças
in 1862, while he was visiting the Great Exhibition of London. The manuscript,
still unpublished and kept at the Fundação Joaquim Nabuco in Recife, contains
detailed observations and projects made by Rebouças. As a traveller, the
engineer pursues just one aim: to be a witness of the novelties of technology.
To learn, to copy, to translate are his goals. Therefore, his writings deal with
visions of modernity and perceptions of the becoming, and postulate crosses
between peripheries and centres, between pre-industrial pasts and the promises
of a future that Rebouças would try to make real throughout the Second Empire.

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Published

2009-09-10

How to Cite

CORDIVOLA, A. An engineer in the universal exposure: André Rebouças and the ghost of the technique. Signótica, Goiânia, v. 13, n. 1, p. 27–46, 2009. DOI: 10.5216/sig.v13i1.7287. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/sig/article/view/7287. Acesso em: 19 may. 2024.

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Vol. 13 No. 1 (2001)

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