History of Technology Volume 25
1st Edition
Published on 15. June 2010
238 pages
978-1-4411-9616-3 (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 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.
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English
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New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-9616-3 (9781441196163)
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Ian Inkster
History of Technology Volume 25
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12/2004
Leicester University Press
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Ian Inkster is Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK.
Content
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Editorial
- The Contributors
- Notes for Contributors
- An Early Tower Windmill? The Turweston 'Post mill' Reconsidered
- Notes and References
- Prefabricating Stories: Innovation in Systems Technology after the Second World War
- ACTORS AND CONVERSATIONS
- PREFABRICATION: MORE IN THE MIND?
- INNOVATION, EVALUATION AND LOTS OF PREJUDICE
- CONCLUSION
- Notes and References
- Impacts of Technology Reassessed: A Retrospective Analysis of Computing Technology
- INTRODUCTION
- THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY
- GROWING DEMANDS (1900-60)
- ACCELERATING TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT
- CONNECTIVITY IN THE 1990s
- DISCUSSION
- CONCLUSION
- Acknowledgements
- Notes and References
- Special Issue: The Global History of the Steam Engine
- Introduction. Indisputable Features and Nebulous Contexts: The Steam Engine as a Global Inquisition
- Notes and Footnotes
- Some Reflections on the Use of 'Styles of Scientific Thinking' to Disaggregate and Sharpen Comparisons Between China and Europe from Song to Mid-Qing Times (960-1850 CE)
- INTRODUCTION
- THE POSTULATIONAL STYLE
- THE EXPERIMENTAL STYLE OF THINKING
- MODELLING
- TAXONOMY
- PROBABILISTIC THINKING
- HISTORICAL DERIVATION
- THE MATHEMATIZATION OF NATURE
- THE SOCIAL MATRIX
- Acknowledgements
- Notes and References
- Comments on Mark Elvin
- Inside Newcomen's Fire Engine, or: The Scientific Revolution and the Rise of the Modern World
- A TEXT TO START FROM
- NEWCOMEN'S ENGINE, FROM THE OUTSIDE IN
- REVOLUTIONARY SCIENCE IN THE ENGINE
- BETWEEN THE BACONIAN DREAM AND ITS REALIZATION
- A BRITISH EXCEPTION
- A CHINESE STEAM ENGINE?
- MODERN SCIENCE AND THE WESTERN ORIGINS OF THE MODERN WORLD
- Notes and References
- The Emergence of Science-based Technology. Comments on Floris Cohen's Paper
- Notes and References
- The Formation of Knowledge Concerning Atmospheric Pressure and Steam Power in Europe from Aleotti (1589) to Papin (1690)
- Notes and References
- Why the Chinese Failed to Develop a Steam Engine
- INTRODUCTION: THE ISSUE
- METHODOLOGY AND SOURCE INFORMATION
- CHINESE UNDERSTANDING OF ENERGY AND ITS FORMS
- CHINESE USE OF WATER AND FIRE AS ENERGY SOURCES WITHOUT STEAM
- CHINESE MACHINES WITHOUT AN ENGINE
- WHY MINING WAS NOT THE HOTBED FOR THE STEAM ENGINE IN CHINA
- Notes and References
- Response to Kent Deng
- Notes and References
- Response to Kent Deng
- Notes
- References
- The Development of the Steam Engine from Watt to Stephenson
- THE IMPACT OF THE STEAM ENGINE
- THE INFLUENCE OF JAMES WATT
- THE HIGH-PRESSURE ENGINE
- THE STEAM ENGINE APPLIED TO TRANSPORT
- THE STEAMBOAT
- ROAD TRANSPORT
- RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES
- Notes and References
- The Resources of Decisive Technological Change: Reflections on Richard Hills
- Notes and References
- Steam Power and Networks in China, 1860-98: The Historical Issues
- INTRODUCTION
- CIRCUMSTANCES
- THE TECHNOLOGIES
- THE WEDGE THEORY VS. THE SHANGHAI METHOD
- THE TELEGRAPH: NEW STRATAGEMS
- CHINESE RAILWAY LINES
- CONCLUSION
- CODA
- Notes and References
- A Comment on Sivin and Zhang
- Contents of Former Volumes
