History of Technology: 1993 by Volume editor Graham John Hollister- Short
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History of Technology
History of Technology
Summary
This annual collection of essays explores the technical problems faced by different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them. It examines the history of technical discovery and change, and explores the relation of technology to the social, cultural and economic aspects of life.
History of Technology Summary
Table of Contents
Alexander Graham Bell, Elisha Gray and the speaking telegraph - a cognitive comparison, Michael E. Gorman, Matthew M. Mehalik, et al; on the origins of the suction lift pump, Graham Hollister-Short; technological aspirations and the motivation of natural philosophy in seventeenth century England, Alex Keller; count Theodore Batthyany's paddle-wheel ship, Walter Endrei; the kongsberg silver mines and the Norwegian mining museum, Bjorn Ivar Berg; does the development of mobility in traffic follow a pattern?, Hermann Knoflacher; the Greeks and the early windmill; Michael J.T. Lewis; faraday re-invented - moral imagery and institutional icons in victorian electrical engineering.
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NPB9780720121605
9780720121605
0720121604
History of Technology: 1993 by Volume editor Graham John Hollister- Short
New
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
1993-09-01
256
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