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Technology on Trial: The Introduction of Steam Power Technology into Sweden, 1715–1736 Nobel prizes Specialization has often conflicted withLindqvist, Svante, 1984, xviii + 102pp., illus. The steam engine came to Sweden as something of a paradox: both as a solution and at the same time a threat. It promised to meet industrys need for mechanical energy, but it also threatened the limited resources of thermal energy. Part 1 is a study of this issue in Sweden as a whole during the eighteenth century. Part 2 is a study of how the knowledge of the Newcomer engine was transferred to Sweden.