History of Technology Volume 26, 2005

by Ian Inkster (Editor)

Overview

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 - and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826489708
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/13/2006
Series:	History of Technology , #26
Pages:	214
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

Table of Contents

Editorial; The Contributors; Notes for ContributorsMaking things from New Ideas; Howard Dawes and Christopher Dawes in collaboration with Gerry Martin and Alan Macfarlane The Twenty-One Books of Engines and Machines Attributed to Pedro Juan de Lastanosa; Nicolas García Tapia Richard Robert's Contributions to Production Engineering; R.L Hills Promoting British Aviation in 1950s Cinema; Michael Paris Special Issue: Engineering Disasters 1 Introduction; R. Angus Buchanan 2 Maritime Disasters and the Law; David K. Brown 3 Suspension Bridges; Derek Portman 5 The Causes of the Great Sheffield Flood of 1864; R. Angus Buchanan 6 Semiconductor Manufacturing and the Chemical Contamination within Silicon Valley; P.R. Morris 7 Gunpowder, A Capricious and Unmerciful Thing; Brenda J. Buchanan 8 Engineering Disasters - Thoughts of a Factory Inspector; John H. Boyes 9 Fatigue as a Factor in Aeronautical Disasters; Peter Stokes10 Design Compromises in the Space Shuttle; David Ashford 11 Past and Future Bridge Failures; Henry Petroski