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History of Technology Volume 12
About this book
The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. Volumes contain technical articles ranging widely in subject, time and region, as well as general papers on the history of technology. In addition to dealing with the history of technical discovery and change, History of Technology also explores the relations of technology to other aspects of life -- social, cultural and economic -- and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.
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Yes, you can access History of Technology Volume 12 by Graham Hollister-Short, Frank James in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & World History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Editorial
- The Contributors
- Notes for Contributors
- Swedish Iron and Sheffield Steel
- Intellectual Dependency and the Sources of Invention: Britain and the Australian Technological System in the Nineteenth Century
- Rational and Irrational Reconstruction: The London Sundial-Calendar and the Early History of Geared Mechanisms
- Some Roman and Byzantine Portable Sundials and the London Sundial-Calendar
- Modern Construction Technology in Low-income Housing Policy: The Case of Industrialized Building and the Manifold Links between Technology and Society in an Established Industry
- Book Review
- Contents of Former Volumes