History of technology . Volume seventeen, 1996 / / edited by Graham Hollister-Short and Frank A.J.L. James

• Pubblicazione: [London] : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 1996
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (250 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Technology - History
• Persona (resp. second.): Hollister-ShortGraham; JamesFrank A. J. L. <1955->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Editorial -- In Memory of Dr Joseph Needham (1901-1995) -- The Contributors -- Notes for Contributors -- Heron of Alexandria's On Automaton-Making / Susan Murphy --Archimedes the Engineer / D. L. Simms -- Moriscos and Marranos as Agents of Technological Diffusion / Thomas F. Glick -- Variations on Mass Production: The Case of Furniture Manufacture in the United States to 1940 / Carroll Pursell -- Space, Time and Innovation Characteristics: The Contribution of Diffusion Process Theory to the History of Technology / Jennifer Tann -- The German Miners at Keswick and the Question of Bismuth / David Bridge -- Jean Errard (1554-1610) and His Book of Machines: Le Primier Livre des instruments mathématiques méchaniques -of 1584 / Walter Endrei -- From the Imperial-Royal Collection of Manufactured Products to the Museum of Technology and Industry in Vienna / Hellmut Janetschek -- Cranks and Scholars / Graham Hollister-Short -- 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: History of technology
• Titolo autorizzato: History of technology
• ISBN: 1-350-01876-7; 1-350-01874-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465862403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: History of technology series ; ; 17.