History of Technology

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

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

1990
Mansell Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-7201-2075-2 (ISBN)

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Contains six essays covering diverse technical subjects, ranging from 600 AD to the end of the 19th century. The aim of the series is to put technological development in a social, cultural and economic context and to show how it has shaped - and been shaped by - the society in which it occurred.

This is a collection of six essays on diverse technical subjects, ranging in time from c.600 AD to the end of the 19th century, drawing on material relating to Australia, the Middle East and Western Europe. The general aim of the series is to explore the relationship of technology to social, cultural and economic aspects of life and to show how technological development has shaped - and been shaped by - the society in which it occurred.

Swedish iron and Sheffield steel; intellectual dependency and the sources of invention; Britian and the Australian technological system in the 19th century; rational and irrational reconstruction; the London sundial-calendar and the early history of geared mechanisms; some Roman and Byzantine portable sundials and the London sundial-calendar; modern construction technology in low-income housing policy; the case of industrialized building and the manifold links between technology and society in an estabished industry; essay review on French water power.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.10.1990
Reihe/Serie	History of technology series ; Vol 12
Zusatzinfo	60 line and b&w half
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-7201-2075-6 / 0720120756
ISBN-13	978-0-7201-2075-2 / 9780720120752
Zustand	Neuware