History of Technology Volume 15 [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.

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.

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

Editorial

The Contributors

Notes for Contributors

Alexander Graham Bell, Elisha Gray and the Speaking Telegraph: A Cognitive Comparison, Michael E. Gorman, Matthew E. Mehalik, W. Bernard Carlson and Michael Oblon

On the Origins of the Suction Lift Pump, Graham Hollister-Short

Technological Aspirations and the Motivation of Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century England, Alex Keller

Counth Theodore Batthy?ny's Paddle-Wheel Ship

The Kongsberg Silver Mines and the Norwegian Mining Museum, Bj?rn Ivar Berg

Does the Development of Mobility in Traffic Follow a Pattern?, Herman Knoflacher

The Greeks and the Early Windmill, Michael J. T. Lewis

Faraday Reinvented: Moral Imagery and Institutional Icons in Victorian Electrical Engineering, Graeme Goodaye

L?gendes Welsches et Itin?raires Sil?siens: La Prospection Mini?re au XVe Si?cle (English summy by G. H.-S.)

Contents of Former Volumes

Essays covering the entire scope of the history of technology around the lC9