History of Technology

Graham John Hollister- Short, Frank A. J. L. James, Graham Hollister-Short (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

1993
Mansell Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-7201-2160-5 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.9.1993
Reihe/Serie	History of technology series ; 15
Zusatzinfo	85 b&w line illustra
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-7201-2160-4 / 0720121604
ISBN-13	978-0-7201-2160-5 / 9780720121605
Zustand	Neuware