History of technology . Volume twenty-three, 2001 / / edited by Ian Inkster

• Pubblicazione: [London] : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Disciplina: 609
• Soggetto topico: Technology - History
• Persona (resp. second.): InksterIan
• 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 -- 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.
• 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. 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--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: 1-350-01898-8; 1-350-01897-X; 1-350-01896-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910975170103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: History of Technology