History of Technology Volume 15.

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 -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- 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 -- Preservation Of The Site: Building Complexes -- Ancillary 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.

The Byzantine Vertical Windmill: Greek Sources -- The 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 -- 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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