History of Technology Volume 1 (History of Technology)

Hall, A. Rupert (EDT)/ Smith, Norman (EDT)

Bloomsbury Academic（2016/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 192 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781350017337
• DDC分類 609

Full Description

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.

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