The technical problems confronting different societies and periods and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. It deals with the history of technical discovery and change and explores the relationship 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.
Volume 27 includes a special issue on The Professional Identity of Engineers: Historical and Contemporary Issues.
The technical problems confronting different societies and periods and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection ...
The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them, form the concern of this annual collection of essays. It deals with the history of technical discovery and change, and explores the relation of technology to other aspects of life.
The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them, form the concern of this annual collection o...
This volume provides an overview of current research in the history of Italian technology in the long run, from the early Middle Ages to the 20th century. The contributors focus on different aspects of Italian creativity in a local, transnational and global dimension, tracing the trajectory from primacy to relative decline. The themes range from the creation and establishment of new technologies in laboratories or enterprises, the processes of learning, diffusion, and copying and the institutions involved in the generation of a national technological capability and innovation system....
This volume provides an overview of current research in the history of Italian technology in the long run, from the early Middle Ages to the 20th c...
While political and social historians have made great progress in trying to understand the making of modern Greece by studying * politics and power struggles, little attention has been given TO the co-evolution of the Greek state and the technologies that were developed during this period. This volume HELPS fills this gap, exploring the formation of the Greek state and the construction of 'modern' Greece through the lens of the history of technology and industry. The contributors look at the role of engineering institutions, the press and of infrastructure technological networks in promoting...
While political and social historians have made great progress in trying to understand the making of modern Greece by studying * politics and power st...
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...
The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of...
This volume is an annual collection of essays which explore how technology is related to other aspects of life - social, cultural, economic. It shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occured.
This volume is an annual collection of essays which explore how technology is related to other aspects of life - social, cultural, economic. It shows ...
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...
The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of...
The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them, form the concern of this annual collection of essays. History of Technology, Volume 22 deals with the history of technical discovery and change and explores the relation 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.Published under the auspices of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London
The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them, form the concern of this annual collection o...
The technical problems confronting different societies in different periods and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. Dealing with the history of technical discovery and change, the volumes in this series explore the relationship of technology to other aspects of life-social, cultural and economic-and show how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it has occurred.
The technical problems confronting different societies in different periods and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual colle...
