History of technology. Volume twenty-five, 2004 / edited by Ian Inkster.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Inkster, Ian, editor.

Series:

History of Technology

History of technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--History.

Technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Other Title:

History of technology. Volume 25

Place of Publication:

[London] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The technical problems confronting different societies and periods and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. It deals with the history of technical discovery and change and explores the relationship of technology to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic - showing how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Contents; Editorial; The Contributors; Notes for Contributors; An Early Tower Windmill? The Turweston ''Post mill'' Reconsidered; Prefabricating Stories: Innovation in Systems Technology after the Second World War; Impacts of Technology Reassessed: A Retrospective Analysis of Computing Technology; Special Issue: The Global History of the Steam Engine; Introduction. Indisputable Features and Nebulous Contexts: The Steam Engine as a Global Inquisition

Some Reflections on the Use of ''Styles of Scientific Thinking'' to Disaggregate and Sharpen Comparisons Between China and Europe from Sòng to Mid-Qing Times (960-1850 CE)Comments on Mark Elvin; Inside Newcomen''s Fire Engine, or: The Scientific Revolution and the Rise of the Modern World; The Emergence of Science-based Technology. Comments on Floris Cohen''s Paper; The Formation of Knowledge Concerning Atmospheric Pressure and Steam Power in Europe from Aleotti (1589) to Papin (1690); Why the Chinese Failed to Develop a Steam Engine; Response to Kent Deng; Response to Kent Deng

The Development of the Steam Engine from Watt to StephensonThe Resources of Decisive Technological Change: Reflections on Richard Hills; Steam Power and Networks in China, 1860-98: The Historical Issues; A Comment on Sivin and Zhang; Contents of Former Volumes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781350019034

1350019038

9781441196163

1441196161

OCLC:

893331225