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Titolo |
History of technology . Volume nineteen, 1998 / / edited by Graham Hollister-Short |
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[London] : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 1997 |
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ISBN |
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1-350-01882-1 |
1-350-01881-3 |
1-350-01880-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (186 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 -- The Early History of the Windmill Bike / Yves Coutant and Paul Groen -- Nuremberg as Epicentre of Invention and Innovation towards the End of the Middle Ages / Wolfgang von Stromer -- Friction According to Jacob Leupold / Wilfred G. Lockett -- Steam and Sugar: The Diffusion of the Stationary Steam Engine to the Caribbean Sugar Industry 1770-1840 / Jennifer Tann -- Uneven Mirrors: Towards a History of Engines / Michael Fores -- John Farey Jr (1791-1851): Engineer and Polymath / A. P. Woolrich -- À la Recherche des Ingénieurs Disparus - les Hydrauliciens Néerlandais au Dix-huitème Siècle / Martijn Bakker. Book Reviews: S. A. Jayawardene, The Scientific Revolution: An Annotated Bibliography / A. Rupert Hall -- Brenda J. Buchanan (ed.), Gunpowder: The History of an International Technology / Robert Smith -- Brian Cotterell and Johan Kamminga, Mechanics of Pre-industrial Technology / Dennis Simms -- 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 - |
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and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred."--Bloomsbury Publishing. |
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