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History of Technology Volume 22.
"The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them, form the concern of this annual collection of essays. History of Technology, Volume 22 deals with the history of technical discovery and change and explores the relation of technology to o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, UNKNOWN :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2016.
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| Colección: | History of Technology
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Editorial; The Contributors; Notes for Contributors; A Failure to Communicate: The Demise of ELDO; European Rocketry And The Creation Of Eldo; Ageing Technology And Changing Objectives; Organizing For Failure; 'Paris We Have A Problem ... ' With Interfaces; Disaster And Dissolution; Conclusion; Acronyms Used In This Paper; Acknowledgements; Notes and References; Building a Hybrid Landscape to Purify the Ruhr Region, 1890-1935; Abstract; Introduction; 'Industrial Preserve' as 'Trading Zone'; Forms Of Pollution
- The Ruhrverband As An Organizational HybridBuilding A Vigorous Hybrid System; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes and References; The Craft of the Bell Founder: The Chyaryshnikovs, a Russian Bell-founding Family; Glorious Is God In His Saints; Acknowledgements; Notes and References; John Farey and His Treatise on the Steam Engine of 1827; Part 1; Part 2; EPILOGUE: THE SUBSEQUENT FATE OF VOLUME TWO; Appendix 1: Synopsis For Remainder Of The Treatise; Appendix 2: Annotated List Of Plates And Woodcuts Intended For The Second Volume Of Farey's Treatise On The Steam Engine; Acknowledgements
- Notes and ReferencesSummer Breeze and Flushing Toilet: Deception and Reality about Our Technical Past; 1. Of Robbery, Skill, Making, Faith, Life, Deceit And Magic In The Human Realm; 2. Of Universals, 'Discoveries', Homocraft And The Clothed Species In Vogue; 3. About Time, Seams, Communications And Power In Berlin And Elsewhere: A Play; 4. Back Home To Locality; Acknowledgements; Notes and References; The Establishment of the Society of Chemical Engineers in Pre-war Japan; Abstract; Introduction; Concepts Of Chemical Engineering
- Some Factors Involved In An Institutional Framework For Chemical EngineeringChemical Engineering Terminology; Conclusion; Notes and References; Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege (1777-1855), a German Engineer of Mining and Metallurgy in Portugal and Brazil; Notes and References; Symposium: The Current State Of The History Of Technology In Britain; Introduction; Reflections on the History of Technology in Britain; Notes and references; The Flourishing of History of Technology in the United Kingdom: A Critique of Antiquarian Complaints of 'Neglect'; Introduction
- History Of Technology Is More Than Just The History Of EngineeringHistory Of Technology Is More Than Just The History Of Artefacts; History Of Technology Needs More Than Just One Particular 'Historical' Approach; History Of Technology Should Be About More Than Just Benign Victorious Technologies; History Of Technology Should Appeal To The Sensibilities Of A Wide Audience; Conclusion; Notes and References; Where Is the History of Technology?; Notes and References; Reflections on the Decline of the History of Technology in Britain; Abstract