History of Technology Volume 9 [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.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 includingA History of Dams(P. Davies, 1971)andMan and Water: A History of Hydro-Technology(Scribner, 1975)

Preface

The Origins of Alloy Steels

A Fourteenth-Century Pile Driver: TheEnginof the Bridge at Orl?ans,Marjorie Nice Boyer

Rail Stresses, Impact Loading and Steam Locomotive Design,Michael Duffy

Giovanni Francesco Sitoni, an Hydraulic Engineer of the Renaissance,Jos? A. Garc?a-Diego

Information on Engineering in the Works of Muslim Geographers,Donald R. Hill

The Second-Century Romano-British Watermill at Ickham, Kent,Robert J. Spain

The Gas Engin in British Agriculture, c. 1870-1925,Ian R. Winship

The Contributors

Contents of Former Volumes