Table of Contents

Editorial
The Contributors
Notes for Contributors

Responding to the Nineteenth Century: The Royal Navy and the Introduction of the Screw Propeller, Andrew D. Lambert

The Emergence of Technical Drawing in China: The Xin Yi Xian Fa Yao and its Antecedents, Peter J. Golas

The Circular Silk Mill: A Factory Before the Industrial Revolution in Early Modern Europe, Carlo Poni

Technology Transfer in the Great Climacteric: Machinofacture and International Patenting in World Development circa 1850-1914, Ian Inkster

What Drives Innovation in Technology? Walter Kaiser

The Industrialization of Chair and Table Manufacture in Japan: Subtle Interactions at the Confluence of Indigenous Culture and Western Technology, Tatsuya Kobayashi

Metals and Metallurgical Processes in North Italy in Biringuccio's Work, Raffaello Vergani

Maîtrise et Transmission des Connaissances Techniques au Moyen Âge (English Summary by Graham Hollister-Short), Philippe Braunstein

Current Research in the History of Technology in Europe, Hans-Joachim Braun

Nieuports and Spads: French Pursuit Planes and American Airpower in World War I, Bert L. Frandsen and W. David Lewis

The Power of Ceremony: Creating an International Engineering Community, Bruce Sinclair

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