History of Technology Volume 16: Volume 16, 1994

Description

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. Cover Half-title Title Copyright Contents Editorial In Memory of Donald Hill (1922-1994) The Contributors Notes for Contributors Drilling Technology Transfer between North America and the North Sea: The Semi-Submersible Drilling Unit The Condeep Concept: The Development and Breakthrough of Concrete Gravity Platforms Edward A. Uehling and the Automatic Pig-Casting Machine: A Case-Study of Technological Transfer The Toledo Water-Clocks of c. 1075 The Other Side of the Coin: Wood Transport Systems in Pre-Industrial Europe The Blast Furnace and the Mass Production of Armour Plate ICOHTEC: Some Informal Personal Reminiscences Hamlet without the Prince: The Strange Death of Technical Skill in Histories History of Technology at the German Mining Museum, Bochum The Structure of Technological Revolution Reforming ICOHTEC: International Committee for the History of Technology Contents of Former Volumes