History of Technology: Vol.20, 1998
Volume 20
Published on 10. January 1999
Book
Hardback
202 pages
978-0-7201-2376-0 (ISBN)
Description
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 relation of technology to other aspects of life.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Laminated cover
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
473 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7201-2376-0 (9780720123760)
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Previous edition
Graham John Hollister- Short
History of Technology: Vol.19
Book
02/1998
Mansell Publishing
€246.10
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Person
Graham Hollister-Short is an Honorary Lecturer in the History of Technology at Imperial College, London, and a member of the academic staff of the London Centre for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology, University of London.
Content
The PAL-SECAM colour television controversy; inventing the miracle battery - Thomas Edison and the electric vehicle; two knights at Pandemonium - a worm's-eye view of Boulton; the mechanization of carving; John Farey and his treatise on the steam engine, 1827; protection and promotion - privileges for inventions and books of machines in the early modern period; the archer's paradox and modelling - a review; a new way of raising water by fire - Denis Papin's treatise of 1707 and its reception by contemporaries; contents of former volumes.