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9780826449610

History of Technology

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  • ISBN13:

    9780826449610

  • ISBN10:

    0826449611

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-09-01
  • Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group

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Table of Contents

Editorial vii
The Contributors viii
Notes for Contributors ix
Responding to the Nineteenth Century: The Royal Navy and the Introduction of the Screw Propeller
1(28)
Andrew D. Lambert
The Emergence of Technical Drawing in China: The Xin Yi Xiang Fa Yao and Its Anteccedents
29(36)
Peter J. Golas
The Circular Silk Mill: A Factory Before the Industrial Revolution in Early Modern Europe
65(22)
Carlo Poni
Technology Transfer in the Great Climacteric: Machinofacture and International Patenting in World Development circa 1850-1914
87(20)
Ian Inkester
What Drives Innovation in Technology?
107(18)
Walter Kaiser
The Industrialization of Chair and Table Manufacture in Japan: Subtle Interactions at the Confluence of Indigenous Culture and Western Technology
125(16)
Tatsuya Kobayashi
Metals and Metallurgical Processes in North Italy in Biringuccio's Work
141(14)
Raffaello Vergani
Maitrise et Transmission des Connaissances Techniques au Moyen Age (English Summary by Graham Hollister-Short)
155(12)
Philippe Braunstein
Current Research in the History of Technology in Europe
167(22)
Hans-Joachim Braun
Nieuports and Spads: French Pursuit Planes and American Airpower in World War I
189(14)
Bert L. Frandsen
W. David Lewis
The Power of Ceremony: Creating an International Engineering Community
203(10)
Bruce Sinclair
Contents of Former Volumes 213

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