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9780720123760

History of Technology Volume 20

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  • ISBN13:

    9780720123760

  • ISBN10:

    0720123763

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-03-10
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Table of Contents

Editorial vi
The Contributors viii
Notes for Contributors ix
The Pal-Secam Colour Television Controversy
1(16)
Walter Kaiser
Inventing the Miracle Battery: Thomas Edison and the Electric Vehicle
17(30)
Gijs Mom
Two Knights in Pandemonium: A Worm's-eye View of Boulton, Watt & Co., c. 1800--1820
47(26)
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
73(30)
Clive Edwards
Protection and Promotion: Privileges for Inventions and Books of Machines in the Early Modern Period
103(22)
Marcus Popplow
The Archer's Paradox and Modelling: A Review
125(14)
B. W. Kooi
A New Way of Raising Water by Fire: Denis Papin's Treatise of 1707 and its Reception by Contemporaries
139(44)
Alan Smith
Contents of Former Volumes 183

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