History of technology

Authors:Graham Hollister-Short, University of London Institute of Historical Research

Print Book, English, 2001

Edition:View all formats and editions

Genre:History

Physical Description:288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN:

9780826453396, 0826453392

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:46498666

Subjects:

Technology Social aspects

Contents:

Editorial

vii

The Contributors

Notes for Contributors

xiii

A Failure to Communicate: The Demise of ELDO

(24)

Stephen B. Johnson

Building a Hybrid Landscape to Purify the Ruhr Region, 1890-1935

(18)

Edmund N. Todd

The Craft of the Bell Founder: The Chyaryshnikovs, a Russian Bell-founding Family

(20)

Tatyana Shashkina

John Farey and His Treatise on the Steam Engine of 1827

(44)

A. P. Woolrich

Summer Breeze and Flushing Toilet: Deception and Reality about Our Technical Past

107

(36)

Michael Fores

The Establishment of the Society of Chemical Engineers in Pre-war Japan

143

(12)

Yuji Jido

Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege (1777-1855), a German Engineer of Mining and Metallurgy in Portugal and Brazil

155

(18)

Friedrich Toussaint

Symposium: The Current State of the History of Technology in Britain

171

(2)

Introduction

173

(8)

Graham Hollister-Short

Reflections on the History of Technology in Britain

181

(8)

David Edgerton

The Flourishing of History of Technology in the United Kingdom: A Critique of Antiquarian Complaints of `Neglect'

189

(14)

Graeme Gooday

Where Is the History of Technology?

203

(8)

Rupert Hall

Reflections on the Decline of the History of Technology in Britain

211

(12)

R. Angus Buchanan

Some Thoughts on the History of Technology and Its Current Condition in Britain

223

(10)

H. S. Torrens

Pursuing Big Books: Technological Change in Global History

233

(22)

Ian Inkster

History of Technology in Germany: A Success Story?

255

(10)

Hans-Joachim Braun

Contents of Former Volumes

265

Notes:

Published under the auspices of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London