History of Technology Volume 20

by Graham Hollister-Short (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. Volumes contain technical articles ranging widely in subject, time and region, as well as general papers on the history of technology. In addition to dealing with the history of technical discovery and change, History of Technology also explores the relations 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:	9781350018884
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	09/30/2016
Series:	History of Technology
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

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.
Dr 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.

Table of Contents

Editorial
The Contributors
Notes for Contributors
The PAL-SECAM Colour Television Controversy, WALTER KAISER
Inventing the Miracle Battery: Thomas Edison and the Electric Vehicle, GIJS MOM
Two Knights in Pandemonium: A Worm's-eye View of Boulton, Watt&Co., c. 1800-1820, JENNIFER TANN
The Mechanization of Carving: The Development of the Carving Machine, Especially in Relation to the Manufacture of Furniture and the Working of Wood, CLIVE EDWARDS
Protection and Promotion: Privileges for Inventions and Books of Machines in the Early Modern Period, MARCUS POPPLOW
The Archer's Paradox and Modelling: A Review, B.W. KOOI
A New Way of Raising Water by Fire: Denis Papin's Treatise of 1707 and its Reception by Contemporaries, ALAN SMITH
Contents of Former Volumes