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 He wrote widely on the history of science and edited and translated numerous unpublished works by scientists including Isaac Newton.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
Moving Ahead with the Fifteenth Century: New Ideas in Bridge Construction at Orleans,Marjorie Nice Boyer
Hand-Cranking in Egyptian Antiquity,Andr? Wegener Sleeswyk
The Invention of Computed Tomography,Charles S?sskind
Early Locomotive Building near Manchester,Richard L. Hills
The Artefact as Historical Document. Part 1: The Fine Platinum Wires of W. H. Wollaston,L. L. Coatsworth, B. I. Kronberg and M. C. Usselman
What about the Fulling-Mill?A. Rupert Hall and N. C. Russell
Technik:Or Mumford Reconsidered,Michael Fores
The Contributors
Contents of former volumes
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