History of Technology Volume 21 [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.

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Responding to the Nineteenth Century: The Royal Navy and the Introduction of the Screw Propeller, Andrew D. Lambert

The Emergence of Technical Drawing in China: TheXin Yi Xian Fa Yaoand its Antecedents, Peter J. Golas

The Circular Silk Mill: A Factory Before the Industrial Revolution in Early Modern Europe,Carlo Poni

Technology Transfer in the Great Climacteric: Machinofacture and International Patenting in World Developmentcirca1850-1914,Ian Inkster

What Drives Innovation in Technology?Walter Kaiser

The Industrialization of Chair and Table Manufacture in Japan: Subtle Interactions at the Confluence of Indigenous Culture and Western Technology,Tatsuya Kobayashi

Metals and Metallurgical Processes in North Italy in Biringuccio's Work,Raffaello Vergani

Ma?trise et Transmission des Connaissances Techniques au Moyen ?ge (English Summary by Graham Hollister-Short),Philippe Braunstein

Current Research in the History of Technology in Europe,Hans-Joachim Braun

Nieuports and Spads: French Pursuit Planes and American Airpower in World War I,Bert L. Frandsen and W. David Lewis

The Power of Ceremony: Creating an International Engineering Community,Bruce Sinclair

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