History of Technology Volume 19.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editorial -- The Contributors -- Notes for Contributors -- The Early History of the Windmill Brake -- Introduction -- The brake band -- The Fastening -- History -- Conclusions -- Nuremberg as Epicentre of Invention and Innovation towards the End of the Middle Ages -- Organizational And Intellectual Innovations -- Technological Inventions And Innovations -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- Friction According to Jacob Leupold -- Notes and References -- Steam and Sugar: The Diffusion of the Stationary Steam Engine to the Caribbean Sugar Industry 1770-1840 -- Introduction -- The Evolution Of The Sugar Mill -- Natural Sources Of Power -- Early Steam Engines -- Boulton &amp -- Watt And Fawcett &amp -- Littledale -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- Uneven Mirrors: Towards a History of Engines -- Introduction -- Artifice And Designing -- Distance, Industry And 'The Modern World' -- It's About Time -- Notes and References -- John Farey Jr (1791-1851): Engineer and Polymath -- Appendix: The Farey Family -- Acknowledgements -- Notes and References -- À la Recherche des Ingénieurs Disparus - les Hydrauliciens Néerlandais au Dix-huitième Siècle -- Summary -- Les Eaux Et Voies Navigables En Russie Au Dix-Huitième Siècle -- Jan Pieter Van Suchtelen -- Jacob Eduard De Witte -- Quelques Autres: Ver Huell Et Falgoni -- Le Groupe De 1787: De Wolland, Creutz Et Redelijkheid -- Conclusion -- Notes et References -- Book Reviews -- The Scientific Revolution: An Annotated Bibliography -- The History of an International Technology -- Mechanics of Pre-industrial Technology -- Contents of Former Volumes.

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