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History of Technology Volume 21 Dr. Graham Hollister-Short (Imperial College London, UK)

History of Technology Volume 21 By Dr. Graham Hollister-Short (Imperial College London, UK)

History of Technology Volume 21 by Dr. Graham Hollister-Short (Imperial College London, UK)


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This volume is an annual collection of essays which explore how technology is related to other aspects of life - social, cultural, economic. It shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occured.

History of Technology Volume 21 Summary

History of Technology Volume 21 by Dr. Graham Hollister-Short (Imperial College London, UK)

The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. Volumes contain technical articles ranging widely in subject, time and region, as well as general papers on the history of technology. In addition to dealing with the history of technical discovery and change, History of Technology also explores the relations of technology to other aspects of life -- social, cultural and economic -- and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.

History of Technology Volume 21 Reviews

"Highly recommended and should certainly be on the shelves of all universities, colleges and engineering institutions." - Newcomen Bulletin

About Dr. Graham Hollister-Short (Imperial College London, UK)

Graham Hollister-Short is an Honorary Lecturer in the History of Technology at Imperial College, London, and a member of the academic staff of the London Centre for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology, University of London.

Table of Contents

Editorial The Contributors Notes for Contributors Responding to the Nineteenth Century: The Royal Navy and the Introduction of the Screw Propeller, Andrew D. Lambert The Emergence of Technical Drawing in China: The Xin Yi Xian Fa Yao and its Antecedents, Peter J. Golas The Circular Silk Mill: A Factory Before the Industrial Revolution in Early Modern Europe, Carlo Poni Technology Transfer in the Great Climacteric: Machinofacture and International Patenting in World Development circa 1850-1914, Ian Inkster What Drives Innovation in Technology? Walter Kaiser The Industrialization of Chair and Table Manufacture in Japan: Subtle Interactions at the Confluence of Indigenous Culture and Western Technology, Tatsuya Kobayashi Metals and Metallurgical Processes in North Italy in Biringuccios Work, Raffaello Vergani Maitrise et Transmission des Connaissances Techniques au Moyen Age (English Summary by Graham Hollister-Short), Philippe Braunstein Current Research in the History of Technology in Europe, Hans-Joachim Braun Nieuports and Spads: French Pursuit Planes and American Airpower in World War I, Bert L. Frandsen and W. David Lewis The Power of Ceremony: Creating an International Engineering Community, Bruce Sinclair Contents of Former Volumes

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NPB9780826449610
9780826449610
0826449611
History of Technology Volume 21 by Dr. Graham Hollister-Short (Imperial College London, UK)
New
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2000-07-01
320
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