History of Technology Volume 22 [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. History of Technology, Volume 22 deals with the history of technical discovery and change and explores the relation 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.Published under the auspices of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London

Contents

Editorial
The Contributors
Notes for Contributors

A Failure to Communicate: The Demise of ELDO
Stephen B. Johnson, University of North Dakota

Building a Hybrid Landscape to Purify the Ruhr Region, 1890-1935
Edmund N. Todd, University of New Haven

The Craft of the Bell Founder: The Chyaryshnikovs, a Russian Bell-Founding Family
Tatyana Shashkina, Odessa, Ukraine

John Farey and his Treatise on the Steam Engine of 1827
A.P. Woolrich, Bridgewater, Somerset

Summer Breeze and Flushing Toilet: Deception and Reality about our Technical Past
Michael Fores, London

The Establishment of the Society of Chemical Engineers in pre-War Japan
Yuji Jido, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan

Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege (1777-1855), A German Engineer of Mining and Metallurgy in Portugal and Brazil
Friedrich Toussaint, Velbert-Neviges, Germany

SYMPOSIUM: THE CURRENT STATE OF THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY IN BRITAIN

Introduction
Graham Hollister-Short

Reflections on the History of Technology in Britain
David Edgerton, Imperial College, London

The Flourishing History of Technology in the United Kingdom: A Critique of Antiquarian Complaints of 'Neglect'
Graeme Gooday, University of Leeds

Where is the History of Technology?
Rupert Hall, formerly Imperial College, London

Reflections on the Decline of the History of Technolol£z