History of Technology Volume 17 [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

In Memory of Dr Joseph Needham (1901-1995)

The Contributors

Notes for Contributors

Heron of Alexandria's On Automaton-Making,Susan Murphy

Archimedes the Engineer,D. L. Simms

Moriscos and Marranos as Agents of Technological Diffusion,Thomas F. Glick

Variations on Mass Production: The Case of Furniture Manufacture in the United States to 1940,Carroll Pursell

Space, Time and Innovation Characteristics: The Contribution of Diffusion Process Theory to the History of Technology,Jennifer Tann

The German Miners at Keswick and the Question of Bismuth,David Bridge

Jean Errard (1554-1610) and His Book of Machines: Le Primier Livre des instruments math?matiques m?chaniques of 1584,Walter Endrei

From the Imperial-Royal Collection of Manufactured Products to the Museum of Technology and Industry in Vienna,Hellmut Janetschek

Cranks and Scholars,Graham Hollister-Short

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