History of Technology Volume 18 [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 Note
The Contributors
Notes for Contributors

Theory and Responsibility in Sciences and Technology,A. Rupert Hall

On the Lift Pump,M. T. Wright

Discoveries, Inventions and Industrial Revolutions: On the Varying Contributions of Technologies and Institutions from an International Historical Perspective,Ian Inkster

James Watt, Mechanical Engineer,R. L. Hills

Technological Advance in the Manufacture of Chemicals: The Case of Cyanide, 1888-1930,Alan L. Lougheed

Putting the Wind up the Pilot: Cloud Flying with Early Aircraft Instruments,John K. Bradley

Seeing Is Believing: The Devlopment of Microwave Radar in Britain, Summer 1940,Stephen N. Travis

Diffusion of Brewing Technology since 1900: Change and the Consumer,Terry Gourvish

Contents of Former Volumes

Essays covering the entire scope of the history of technology around the globe.