History of Technology Volume 27
Includes special issue on The Professional Identity of Engineers
Published on 26. April 2007
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-8264-9599-0 (ISBN)
Description
The technical problems confronting different societies and periods and the measures are 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. Volume 27 includes a special issue on "The Professional Identity of Engineers: Historical and Contemporary Issues".
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: From Preschool to Kindergarten
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
432 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-9599-0 (9780826495990)
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Ian Inkster
History of Technology Volume 27
Includes special issue on The Professional Identity of Engineers
E-Book
04/2007
1st Edition
Continuum Publishing Corporation
€37.09
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Person
Ian Inkster is Research Professor of International History, Faculty of Humanities, The Nottingham Trent University, UK.
Content
1. The diffusion and transmission of the rotary-fan winnowing machine from China to Europe: New findings and new questions - Hans Ulrich Vogel; 2. Watt in Court: Specifying Steam Engines and Classifying Engineers in the Patent Trials of the 1790s -David P. Miller; 3. Business and geopolitics in the international transfer of technology: The Spanish submarine cables 1849-1930 - Angel Calvo; Special Issue: The Professional Identity of Engineers. Historical and Contemporary Issues; Introduction. Identifying Engineers in History - Irina Gouzevitch and Ian Inkster.; 1. French Engineers: Between Unity and Heterogeneity - Andre Grelon; 2. Industrial Engineering in Spain in the first half of the XX Century: from renewal to crisis - Antoni Roca Rosell, Guillermo Lusa-Monforte, Francaesc Barca-Salomon, Carles Puig-Pla; 3. Being an Engineer in the European Periphery. Three Case Studies on Portuguese Engineering - Maria Paula Diogo and Ana Cardoso de Matos.