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History of Technology Volume 23 Professor Ian Inkster (SOAS, University of London, UK)

History of Technology Volume 23 By Professor Ian Inkster (SOAS, University of London, UK)

History of Technology Volume 23 by Professor Ian Inkster (SOAS, University of London, UK)


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History of Technology Volume 23 by Professor Ian Inkster (SOAS, University of 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. It deals with the history of technical discovery and change and explores the relationship 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 23 Reviews

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

About Professor Ian Inkster (SOAS, University of London, UK)

Ian Inkster is Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK.

Table of Contents

Editorial
List of Contributors
1. Standards, Trust and Civil Discourse: Measuring the Thickness and Quality of Silk, Carlo Poni, University of Bologna
2. Technological Transfer between Politics, Markets and Culture: Frame Work Knitting versus Hand Kniting in the Southern Netherlands, 17th to 18th Centuries, Harald Deceular
3. A Philosophical Business: Edward Nairne's Electrical Career and the Patent Medical Electrical Machine (1782), Paola Bertucci, University of Bologna
4. Innovation or Emulation? Silverware and its Imitations in Britain 1750-1800: The Consumers Point of View, Helen Clifford, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
5. Technology and the Labour Process:: A Comparison of British Railway Companies' Approaches to Locomotive Construction Before 1914, D. K. Drummond, University of Leeds
6. The Kumaon Iron Works: A Colonial Technology Project, Jan Af Geijerstam
7. Learning by the Book: The Problems of Writing Instruction in Manual Skills, Ghillian and Russell Potts
8. Civilized Adventure as a Remedy for Nervous Times: Early Automobilism and fin de siecle Culture, Gijs Moms, Technical University Eindhoven
9. Chronicle of the Death of a Laboratory: Douglas Engelbart and the Failure of the Knowledge Workshop, Thierry Bardini, University of Montreal and Michael Friedewald, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, Karlsruhe
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NPB9780826456168
9780826456168
0826456162
History of Technology Volume 23 by Professor Ian Inkster (SOAS, University of London, UK)
New
Hardback
Continuum Publishing Corporation
2003-03-01
256
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