History of Technology Volume 23

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2003
Continuum Publishing Corporation (Verlag)
978-0-8264-5616-8 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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
Contents of former volumes

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.3.2003
Reihe/Serie	History of Technology
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
Schlagworte	History of technology series
ISBN-10	0-8264-5616-2 / 0826456162
ISBN-13	978-0-8264-5616-8 / 9780826456168
Zustand	Neuware