History of Technology Volume 18
History of Technology Volume 18

Author: Graham Hollister-Short

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-09-30

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1350018775

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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.

Science and Technology in World History, Volume 2
Science and Technology in World History, Volume 2

Author: David Deming

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 0786456426

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Science is a living, organic activity, the meaning and understanding of which have evolved incrementally over human history. This book, the second in a roughly chronological series, explores the evolution of science from the advents of Christianity and Islam through the Middle Ages, focusing especially on the historical relationship between science and religion. Specific topics include technological innovations during the Middle Ages; Islamic science; the Crusades; Gothic cathedrals; and the founding of Western universities. Close attention is given to such figures as Paul the Apostle, Hippolytus, Lactantius, Cyril of Alexandria, Hypatia, Cosmas Indicopleustes, and the Prophet Mohammed.

History of Technology Volume 29
History of Technology Volume 29

Author: Ian Inkster

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2010-06-15

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1441177086

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The common question from the western point of view is of the sort; why did China lose its early leadership of productive technologies to Europe during the early modern period? Answers to this seemingly clear enquiry vary from general cultural inwardness to the interferences of imperial governance. This collection surveys such theories but alters the issue by raising the notion that Chinese technologies did not so much fail as move along a path different from that of Europe. Our second collection on the Mindful Hand, also shifts common ground by querying and modifying common views of the links between knowledge and technique in early-modern European development. Scientific or related knowledge was not brought to technique as a socio-cultural gift from an educated elite to the working man. Rather, educated gents, practitioners, instrument makers, craftsfolk and technicians of all kinds intermingled both socially and in terms of the recognition of technical problems as well as in the assemblage of the mental, commercial and cognitive resources required to pursue innovative production projects.

History of Technology Volume 10
History of Technology Volume 10

Author: Norman Smith

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-09-30

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1350018414

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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.

History of Technology Volume 11
History of Technology Volume 11

Author: Norman Smith

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-09-30

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 1350018481

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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.

History of Technology Volume 15
History of Technology Volume 15

Author: Graham Hollister-Short

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-09-30

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 1350018694

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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.

History of Technology Volume 20
History of Technology Volume 20

Author: Graham Hollister-Short

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-09-30

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1350018880

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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.

History of Technology Volume 4
History of Technology Volume 4

Author: A. Rupert Hall

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-09-30

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1350017582

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The annual collections in the History of Technology series look at the history of technological discovery and change, exploring the relationship of technology to other aspects of life and showing how technological development is affected by the society in which it occurred.

History of Technology Volume 28
History of Technology Volume 28

Author: Ian Inkster

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2009-05-31

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 082643875X

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Technical standards have received increasing attention in recent years from historians of science and technology, management theorists and economists. Often, inquiry focuses on the emergence of stability, technical closure and culturally uniform modernity. Yet current literature also emphasizes the durability of localism, heterogeneity and user choice. This collection investigates the apparent tension between these trends using case studies from across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The History of Technology addresses tensions between material standards and process standards, explores the distinction between specifying standards and achieving convergence towards them, and examines some of the discontents generated by the reach of standards into ‘everyday life'. Includes the Special Issue "By whose standards? Standardization, stability and uniformity in the history of information and electrical technologies"