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History of technology . Volume twenty-five, 2004 / / edited by Ian Inkster |
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[London] : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-350-01903-8 |
1-4411-9616-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (238 p.) |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Editorial; The Contributors; Notes for Contributors; An Early Tower Windmill? The Turweston ''Post mill'' Reconsidered; Prefabricating Stories: Innovation in Systems Technology after the Second World War; Impacts of Technology Reassessed: A Retrospective Analysis of Computing Technology; Special Issue: The Global History of the Steam Engine; Introduction. Indisputable Features and Nebulous Contexts: The Steam Engine as a Global Inquisition |
Some Reflections on the Use of ''Styles of Scientific Thinking'' to Disaggregate and Sharpen Comparisons Between China and Europe from Sò€ng to Mid-Qing Times (960-1850 CE)Comments on Mark Elvin; Inside Newcomen''s Fire Engine, or: The Scientific Revolution and the Rise of the Modern World; The Emergence of Science-based Technology. Comments on Floris Cohen''s Paper; The Formation of Knowledge Concerning Atmospheric Pressure and Steam Power in Europe from Aleotti (1589) to Papin (1690); Why the Chinese Failed to Develop a Steam Engine; Response to Kent Deng; Response to Kent Deng |
The Development of the Steam Engine from Watt to StephensonThe Resources of Decisive Technological Change: Reflections on Richard Hills; Steam Power and Networks in China, 1860-98: The Historical Issues; A Comment on Sivin and Zhang; Contents of Former Volumes |
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"The technical problems confronting different societies and periods and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual |
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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 - showing how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred."--Bloomsbury Publishing. |
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