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History of Technology

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Author: Hollister-Short, Graham
ISBN: 9780720123654

by Hollister-Short, Graham

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9780720123654
ISBN10:
0720123658
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 1998-03-01
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Academic
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Editorial

vii

(3)

The Contributors

(1)

Notes for Contributors

YVES COUTANT

PAUL GROEN

The Early History of the Windmill Brake

(18)

WOLFGANG VON STROMER

Nuremberg as Epicentre of Invention and Innovation towards the End of the Middle Ages

(28)

WILFRED G. LOCKETT

Friction According to Jacob Leupold

(16)

JENNIFER TANN

Steam and Sugar: The Diffusion of the Stationary Steam Engine to the Caribbean Sugar Industry 1770-1840

(22)

MICHAEL FORES

Uneven Mirrors: Towards a History of Engines

(26)

A. P. WOOLRICH

John Farey Jr (1791-1851): Engineer and Polymath

111

(32)

MARTIJN BAKKER

A la Recherche des Ingenieurs Disparus -- les Hydrauliciens Neerlandais au Dix-huitieme Siecle

143

(16)

Book Reviews

159

(8)

A. RUPERT HALL

S.A. Jayawardene

The Scientific Revolution: An Annotated Bibliography

159

(1)

ROBERT SMITH

Brenda J. Buchanan

Gunpowder: The History of an International Technology

160

(2)

DENNIS SIMMS

Brian Cotterell

Johan Kamminga

Mechanics of Pre-industrial Technology

162

(5)

Contents of Former Volumes

167

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