History of technology . Volume twenty-one, 2000 / / edited by Graham Hollister-Short

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910964249603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [London] : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2000
• ISBN: 1-350-01892-9; 1-350-01890-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (234 p.)
• Collana: History of technology
• Disciplina: 609
• Soggetti: Technology - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: Editorial -- The Contributors -- Notes for Contributors -- Responding to the Nineteenth Century: The Royal Navy and the Introduction of the Screw Propeller / Andrew D. Lambert --The Emergence of Technical Drawing in China: The Xin Yi Xian Fa Yao - and its Antecedents / Peter J. Golas -- The Circular Silk Mill: A Factory Before the Industrial Revolution in Early Modern Europe / Carlo Poni -- Technology Transfer in the Great Climacteric: Machinofacture and International Patenting in World Development circa -- 1850-1914 / Ian Inkster -- What Drives Innovation in Technology? / Walter Kaiser -- The Industrialization of Chair and Table Manufacture in Japan: Subtle Interactions at the Confluence of Indigenous Culture and Western Technology / Tatsuya Kobayashi -- Metals and Metallurgical Processes in North Italy in Biringuccio's Work / Raffaello Vergani -- Maîtrise et Transmission des Connaissances Techniques au Moyen Âge (English Summary by Graham Hollister-Short) / Philippe Braunstein -- Current Research in the History of Technology in Europe / Hans-Joachim Braun -- Nieuports and Spads: French Pursuit Planes and American Airpower in World War I / Bert L. Frandsen and W. David Lewis -- The Power of Ceremony: Creating an International Engineering Community / Bruce Sinclair -- Contents of Former Volumes.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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.