History of Technology

by Hall, A. Rupert; Smith, Norman

• ISBN13: 9781350017337
• ISBN10: 1350017337
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-09-30
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Academic

Summary

The annual collections in the History of Technology series look at the history of technological discovery and change, exploring the relationship of technology to other aspects of life and showing how technological development is affected by the society in which it occurred.

Author Biography

A. Rupert Hall (1920-2009) was Professor of the History of Science and Technology at Imperial College, London and a former director of the Wellcome Trust. He wrote widely on the history of science and edited and translated numerous unpublished works by scientists including Isaac Newton.

Norman A. F. Smith (1938-2009) was Reader in the History of Science and Technology at Imperial College, London. He is the author of several works including Man and Water: A History of Hydro-Technology and A History of Dams.

Table of Contents

Preface

1. Thermodynamics and Practical Engineering in the Nineteenth Century, D. S. L. Cardwell and Richard L. Hills

2. Couplet's Engineering Memoirs, 1726-33, Jacques Heyman

3. Attitudes to Roman Engineering and the question of the Inverted Siphon, Norman P. Smith

4. The Promethean Revolution: Science, Technology and History, R. A. Buchanan

5. The History of Technology: its Aims, its Limits, its Methods, M. Daumas, translated and introduced by A. Rupert Hall

6. Electromagnetic Telegraphy: Early Ideas, Proposals and Apparatus, Keith Dawson

7. The Strange Case of Aluminium, Marie Boas Hall

8. Leads and Lags in late Seventeenth-Century English Technology, G. Hollister-Short

The Contributors