History of Technology Volume 19 [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
Notes for Contributors

The Early History of the Windmill Bike,Yves Coutant and Paul Groen

Nuremberg as Epicentre of Invention and Innovation towards the End of the Middle Ages,Wolfgang von Stromer

Friction According to Jacob Leupold,Wilfred G. Lockett

Steam and Sugar: The Diffusion of the Stationary Steam Engine to the Caribbean Sugar Industry 1770-1840, Jennifer Tann

Uneven Mirrors: Towards a History of Engines,Michael Fores

John Farey Jr (1791-1851): Engineer and Polymath,A. P. Woolrich

? la Recherche des Ing?nieurs Disparus  les Hydrauliciens N?erlandais au Dix-huit?me Si?cle,Martijn Bakker

Book Reviews:

S. A. Jayawardene, The Scientific Revolution: An Annotated Bibliography,A. Rupert Hall

Brenda J. Buchanan (ed.), Gunpowder: The History of an International Technology,Robert Smith

Brian Cotterell and Johan Kamminga, Mechanics of Pre-industrial Technology,Dennis Simms

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.Essays covering the entire scope of the history of technology around tlS'