History of Technology Volume 12 [Hardcover]

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 Technologyalso 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.

Editorial

The Contributors

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Swedish Iron and Sheffield Steel,Kenneth C. Barraclough

Intellectual Dependency and the Sources of Invention: Britain and the Australian Technological System in the Nineteenth Century,Ian Inkster

Rational and Irrational Reconstruction: The London Sundial-Calendar and the Early History of Geared Mechanisms,M. T. Wright

Some Roman and Byzantine Portable Sundials and the London Sundial-Calendar,J. V. Field

Modern Construction Technology in Low-income Housing Policy: The Case of Industrialized Building and the Manifold Links between Technology and Socity in an Established Industry,R. T. McCutcheon

Book Review by Frank A. J. L. James: Andr? Guillerme,Le Temps de l'Eau: La Cit?, L'Eau et les Techniques: Nord de la France Fin IIIe-D?but XIXe Si?cle.Eng. trans.: The Age of Water: The Urban Environment in the North of France, AD 300-1800

Contents of Former Volumes

Graham Hollister-Shortis 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, UK

Frank A.J.L James, Professor of History of Science, The Royal Institution of Great Britain, UK