The annual collections in the
History of Technologyseries look at the history of technological discovery and change, exploring the relationship of technology to other aspects of life and showing how technological development is affected by the society in which it occurred.
A. Rupert Hall(1920-2009) was Professor of the History of Science and Technology at Imperial College, London and a former director of the Wellcome Trust. He wrote widely on the history of science and edited and translated numerous unpublished works by scientists including Isaac Newton.
Norman A. F. Smith(1938-2009) was Reader in the History of Science and Technology at Imperial College, London. He is the author of several works includingMan and Water: A History of Hydro-TechnologyandA History of Dams.
Preface
The Order of the Technological World,Thomas P. Hughes
Bronze Roman Piston Pumps,Thorkild Schi?ler
Measurement in Galileo's Science,Stillman Drake
John Ridley and the South Australian 'Stripper',L. J. Jones
Emile Lamm's Self-Propelled Tramcars 1870-72 and the Evolution of the Fireless Locomotive,D. G. Tucker
British Industry in 1767: Extracts from a Travel Journal of Joseph Banks,S. R. Broadbridge
Water, Stampers and Paper in the Auvergne: A Medieval Tradition,Richard L. Hills
The Contributors
Contents of Former Volumes
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