History of Technology Volume 12.
"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....
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Bloomsbury Publishing,
2016
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Editorial; The Contributors; Notes for Contributors; Swedish Iron and Sheffield Steel; The Use Of Swedish Iron; Hull Iron Merchants And Sheffield Steel; Note; References; Intellectual Dependency and the Sources of Invention: Britain and the Australian Technological System in the Nineteenth Century; Introduction-Commanding Themes; The Australian Context; The Australian Inventors; Summary And Conclusions; Acknowledgement; References; Rational and Irrational Reconstruction: The London Sundial-Calendar and the Early History of Geared Mechanisms.
- IntroductionEvidence From The Original Fragments; The Form Of The Instrument: Minimal Reconstruction; A 'Minimal Reconstruction' Of The Lost Wheelwork; Mechanical Arrangement And Details; The Manufacture Of Toothed Wheels; Practical Reconstruction; Al-Biruni's 'Box Of The Moon' Reconsidered; Beyond The Minimal Reconstruction; Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; Some Roman and Byzantine Portable Sundials and the London Sundial-Calendar; Other Dials Of The Same Type; How The Dials Worked; Dials With Inscriptions In Latin; The Dials With Inscriptions In Greek; Why A Sundial-Calendar?
- From Sun To StarsAppendix: The Rockford Dial; Acknowledgements; References; 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; Introduction; Theory, Rhetoric And Links To Society; Technical Advice And Initiation Of Policy; Implementation: Quantitative Analysis, Effect Of Social Factors, And Comparison Between Rhetoric And Reality; Present Status Of The Theory; Conclusions; Summary; Acknowledgement; Footnotes and References; Book Review; Contents of Former Volumes.
