History of Technology Volume 17: Volume 17, 1995

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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 Dr Joseph Needham (1901-1995) The Contributors Notes for Contributors Heron of Alexandria's On Automaton-Making Abstract Introduction On Automaton-Making Notes and References Acknowledgements Archimedes the Engineer Introduction Launching The Great Ship Moving The Earth The Planetarium Or Sphere Archimedean Screw Archimedes And The Arts Of War Archimedes' Attitude To Engineering Commentary Notes and References Moriscos and Marranos as Agents of Technological Diffusion I II III IV V Notes and References Variations on Mass Production: The Case of Furniture Manufacture in the United States to 1940 Notes and References Space, Time and Innovation Characteristics: The Contribution of Diffusion Process Theory to the History of Technology Introduction Social Process Theory Social Science Theory And The History Of Technology The Innovation And Diffusion Process Notes and References The German Miners at Keswick and the Question of Bismuth Abstract Introduction Early References To Bismuth Local Occurrence Of Bismuth Smelting Of The Copper Ores A Miner Called Fechtenbach Early Uses Of Bismuth Notes and References Jean Errard (1554-1610) and His Book of Machines: Le Premier Livre des instruments mathematiques mechaniques of 1584 Abstract Notes and References From the Imperial-Royal Collection of Manufactured Products to the Museum of Technology and Industry in Vienna Abstract Introduction The Beginnings Of The Collections Other Forerunners Of The Museum Of Technology And Industry The Idea Of A Technisches Museum Fur Industrie Und Gewerbe And Its Final Realization The Equipment Of The Museum Public Activities And Numbers Of Visitors The Research Institute For The History Of Technology Archives, Library And Inventory Of Collections Notes and References Cranks and Scholars Notes and References Contents of Former Volumes