Editorial -- List of Contributors -- 1. Standards, Trust and Civil Discourse: Measuring the Thickness and Quality of Silk / Carlo Poni, University of Bologna -- 2. Technological Transfer between Politics, Markets and Culture: Frame Work Knitting versus Hand Kniting in the Southern Netherlands, 17th to 18th Centuries / Harald Deceular -- 3. A Philosophical Business: Edward Nairne's Electrical Career and the Patent Medical Electrical Machine (1782) / Paola Bertucci, University of Bologna -- 4. Innovation or Emulation? Silverware and its Imitations in Britain 1750-1800: The Consumers Point of View / Helen Clifford, Victoria and Albert Museum, London -- 5. Technology and the Labour Process:: A Comparison of British Railway Companies' Approaches to Locomotive Construction Before 1914 / D. K. Drummond, University of Leeds -- 6. The Kumaon Iron Works: A Colonial Technology Project / Jan Af Geijerstam -- 7. Learning by the Book: The Problems of Writing Instruction in Manual Skills / Ghillian and Russell Potts -- 8. Civilized Adventure as a Remedy for Nervous Times: Early Automobilism and fin de siecle Culture / Gijs Moms, Technical University Eindhoven -- 9. Chronicle of the Death of a Laboratory: Douglas Engelbart and the Failure of the Knowledge Workshop / Thierry Bardini, University of Montreal and Michael Friedewald, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, Karlsruhe -- Contents of former volumes. |