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Titolo |
History of technology . Volume twelve, 1990 / / edited by Graham Hollister-Short and Frank A.J.L. James |
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[London] : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 1990 |
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ISBN |
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1-350-01860-0 |
1-350-01858-9 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (194 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 --The Contributors -- Notes for Contributors -- Swedish Iron and Sheffield Steel / Kenneth C. Barraclough -- Intellectual Dependency and the Sources of Invention: Britain and the Australian Technological System in the Nineteenth Century / Ian Inkster -- Rational and Irrational Reconstruction: The London Sundial-Calendar and the Early History of Geared Mechanisms / M. T. Wright -- Some Roman and Byzantine Portable Sundials and the London Sundial-Calendar / J. V. Field -- Modern Construction Technology in Low-income Housing Policy: The Case of Industrialized Building and the Manifold Links between Technology and Socity in an Established Industry / R. T. McCutcheon -- Book Review by Frank A. J. L. James: André Guillerme, Le Temps de l'Eau: La Cité, L'Eau et les Techniques: Nord de la France Fin IIIe-Début XIXe Siècle. Eng. trans.: The Age of Water: The Urban Environment in the North of France, AD 300-1800 -- 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 |
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