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Titolo |
History of technology . Volume eighteen, 1996 / / edited by Graham Hollister-Short and Frank A.J.L. James |
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[London] : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 1997 |
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ISBN |
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1-350-01879-1 |
1-350-01878-3 |
1-350-01877-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (162 p.) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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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 bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Editorial Note -- The Contributors -- Notes for Contributors -- Theory and Responsibility in Sciences and Technology / A. Rupert Hall -- On the Lift Pump / M. T. Wright -- Discoveries, Inventions and Industrial Revolutions: On the Varying Contributions of Technologies and Institutions from an International Historical Perspective / Ian Inkster -- James Watt, Mechanical Engineer / R. L. Hills -- Technological Advance in the Manufacture of Chemicals: The Case of Cyanide, 1888-1930 / Alan L. Lougheed -- Putting the Wind up the Pilot: Cloud Flying with Early Aircraft Instruments, John K. Bradley -- 'Seeing' Is Believing: The Devlopment of Microwave Radar in Britain, Summer 1940 / Stephen N. Travis -- Diffusion of Brewing Technology since 1900: Change and the Consumer / Terry Gourvish -- Contents of Former Volumes. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 collection of essays. Volumes contain technical articles ranging widely in subject, time and region, as well as general papers on the history of technology. In addition to dealing with the history of technical discovery and change, History of Technology also explores the relations of technology to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic - and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred."--Bloomsbury Publishing. |
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