Overview

The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them, form the concern of this annual collection of essays. It deals with the history of technical discovery and change, and explores the relationship of technology to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic. The book shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.

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Author:   Graham John Hollister- Short ,  Frank A. J. L. James ,  Graham Hollister-Short
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Mansell Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9780720122848

ISBN 10:   0720122848
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 January 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Heron of Alexandria's ""On Automaton-making"", Susan Murphy; Archimedes the engineer, D.L. Simms; Moriscos and Marranos as agents of technical diffusion, Thomas F. Glick; variations on mass production - the case of furniture manufacture in the United States, Carroll Pursell; space, time and innovation characteristics - the contribution of diffusion process theory to the history of technology, Jennifer Tann; the German miners at Keswick and the question of bismuth, David Bridge; Jean Errard (1554-1610) and his book of machines, ""Le Premier Livre des Instruments Mathematiques Mechaniques"" of 1584, Walter Endrei; from the imperial-royal collection of manufactured products to the museum technology and industry in Vienna, Hellmut Janetschek; cranks and scholars, Graham Hollister-Short; contents of former volumes."

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Graham Hollister-Short is an Honorary Lecturer in the History of Technology at Imperial College, London, and a member of the academic staff of the London Centre for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology, University of London. Frank A.J.L James, Professor of History of Science, The Royal Institution of Great Britain.

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