LEADER 03442nam 22006131 450 001 9910456775803321 005 20161110093859.0 010 $a1-350-01903-8 010 $a1-4411-9616-1 024 7 $a10.5040/9781350019034 035 $a(CKB)2550000000044712 035 $a(EBL)1750540 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000643823 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11393713 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000643823 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10668797 035 $a(PQKB)10419967 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1750540 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1750540 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10867470 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL615826 035 $a(OCoLC)893331225 035 $a(OCoLC)1058974787 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09260157 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000044712 100 $a20161128d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aHistory of technology$hVolume twenty-five, 2004 /$fedited by Ian Inkster 210 1$a[London] :$cBloomsbury Academic,$d2004. 215 $a1 online resource (238 p.) 225 0 $aHistory of technology 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8264-7187-0 327 $aContents; Editorial; The Contributors; Notes for Contributors; An Early Tower Windmill? The Turweston ''Post mill'' Reconsidered; Prefabricating Stories: Innovation in Systems Technology after the Second World War; Impacts of Technology Reassessed: A Retrospective Analysis of Computing Technology; Special Issue: The Global History of the Steam Engine; Introduction. Indisputable Features and Nebulous Contexts: The Steam Engine as a Global Inquisition 327 $aSome Reflections on the Use of ''Styles of Scientific Thinking'' to Disaggregate and Sharpen Comparisons Between China and Europe from So?ng to Mid-Qing Times (960-1850 CE)Comments on Mark Elvin; Inside Newcomen''s Fire Engine, or: The Scientific Revolution and the Rise of the Modern World; The Emergence of Science-based Technology. Comments on Floris Cohen''s Paper; The Formation of Knowledge Concerning Atmospheric Pressure and Steam Power in Europe from Aleotti (1589) to Papin (1690); Why the Chinese Failed to Develop a Steam Engine; Response to Kent Deng; Response to Kent Deng 327 $aThe Development of the Steam Engine from Watt to StephensonThe Resources of Decisive Technological Change: Reflections on Richard Hills; Steam Power and Networks in China, 1860-98: The Historical Issues; A Comment on Sivin and Zhang; Contents of Former Volumes 330 $a"The technical problems confronting different societies and periods and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. It deals with the history of technical discovery and change and explores the relationship of technology to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic - showing how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 410 0$aHistory of Technology 517 3 $aHistory of technology. 606 $aTechnology$xHistory 606 $2General & world history 615 0$aTechnology$xHistory. 676 $a265/.3 702 $aInkster$b Ian 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456775803321 996 $aHistory of technology$956332 997 $aUNINA