History of Technology Volume 15.

"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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Main Author: Hollister-Short, Graham
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London, UNKNOWN : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Series:History of Technology
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505 0 |a Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Editorial; The Contributors; Notes for Contributors; Alexander Graham Bell, Elisha Gray and the Speaking Telegraph: A Cognitive Comparison; Abstract; Introduction; A Cognitive Framework For Understanding Invention; Bell's Mental Model For A Multiple Telegraph; Elisha Gray's Path To A Multiple-Harmonic Telegraph; Bell And Gray's Harmonic Multiple Telegraphs: Simultaneous Invention Or Stolen Idea?; Bell And Gray's Harmonic Multiple Telegraphs: Simultaneous Invention Or Stolen Idea?; Bell's Work After The Patent; Gray's Work After His Caveat 
505 8 |a ConclusionAcknowledgements; Notes and References; On the Origins of the Suction Lift Pump; Endnote; Notes and References; Technological Aspirations and the Motivation of Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century England; Notes and References; Count Theodore Batthyány's Paddle-Wheel Ship; Notes and References; The Kongsberg Silver Mines and the Norwegian Mining Museum; Abstract; Introduction; The Kongsberg Silver Mines; An Outline Of The Technological History Of The Silver Mines; The Norwegian Mining Museum And Its Collections; The Preserved Monuments And Equipment 
505 8 |a Preservation Of The Site: Building ComplexesAncillary Structures; Industrial Archaeological Work; Conclusion; Notes and References; Does the Development of Mobility in Traffic Follow a Pattern?; Existing Trends: The Prevailing View; The Question Of Mobility; Human Behaviour As A Result Of Evolution; How Do We Calculate Energy Consumption?; People Are 'Captured' By The Car As A Result Of Their Own Attitude; Solution Of The Problems; Notes and References; The Greeks and the Early Windmill; Abstract; Introduction; Hero's Windmill; The Persian Windmill; The Byzantine Horizontal Windmill 
505 8 |a The Byzantine Vertical Windmill: Greek SourcesThe Byzantine Vertical Windmill: Other Sources; The Rise And Diffusion Of The Vertical Mill; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes and References; Faraday Reinvented: Moral Imagery and Institutional Icons in Victorian Electrical Engineering; Abstract; Faraday Recruited: British Telegraphy 1853-1875; Faraday Reconstrued: Dynamos And Dynamism In The New Electro-Technology; Faraday Redeployed: Fads And 'Farads' In Electrical Nomenclature; Faraday the reconciler: professors vs. Practical men in the iee; Acknowledgements; Notes and References 
505 8 |a Légendes Welsches et Itinéraires Silésiens: La Prospection Miniere au XV Siècle (English summary by G.H.-S.)Summary; Sommaire; Description Utilitaire Et Prospection Minière; Les Legendes Minieres: Les Welsches Dans Le Monde Germanique; Le Débat Sur Les 'Walenbücher; Paysages Et Manuscrits Silésiens; Le 'Pototype' De Breslau Et Antonio 'Der Wale'; Conclusion; Annexes; TEXTE I; TEXTE II; TEXTE III; Notes et References; Contents of Former Volumes 
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