History of Technology Volume 20.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editorial -- The Contributors -- Notes for Contributors -- The PAL-SECAM Colour Television Controversy -- INTRODUCTION -- THE NTSC SYSTEM -- THE SECAM SYSTEM -- THE PAL SYSTEM -- THE PROBLEM OF REACHING A TECHNOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE RIVAL COLOUR TELEVISION SYSTEMS -- THE PAL SECAM CONTROVERSY AS A POLITICAL CASE STUDY -- Notes and References -- Inventing the Miracle Battery: Thomas Edison and the Electric Vehicle -- INTRODUCTION -- THE PLUTO EFFECT -- THE INVENTION OF THE ALKALINE VEHICLE BATTERY -- THE MIRACLE BATTERY -- THE EDISON BATTERY AS A MACHINE -- EDISON'S BATTERY AND THE AUTOMOBILE MARKET -- Notes and References -- Two Knights in Pandemonium: A Worm's-eye View of Boulton, Watt &amp -- Co., c. 1800-1820 -- FAMILY BACKGROUND -- SOCIAL LIFE -- SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS -- THE ROLE OF ENGINEERING REPRESENTATIVE -- ENGINEERING DRAWING -- ENGINE DESIGN AND IMPROVEMENT -- MARINE ENGINES -- GASLIGHTING -- SOHO FOUNDRY -- CONCLUSION -- Notes and References -- The Mechanization of Carving: The Development of the Carving Machine, Especially in Relation to the Manufacture of Furniture and the Working of Wood -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- EARLY HISTORY -- FIRST PHASE -- THE ROLE OF THOMAS JORDAN -- PROGRESS IN PATENT CARVING -- SECOND PHASE -- ATTITUDES TO CARVING MACHINES AND TECHNOLOGY -- Notes and References -- Protection and Promotion: Privileges for Inventions and Books of Machines in the Early Modern Period -- INTRODUCTION -- MILLS AND WATER-LIFTING DEVICES AS OBJECTS OF EARLY MODERN PRIVILEGES FOR INVENTIONS -- THE PROCESS OF GRANTING PRIVILEGES FOR INVENTIONS -- THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF PRIVILEGES FOR INVENTIONS UP TO THE END OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY -- 'MACHINES' AS THE COMMON OBJECT OF PRIVILEGES FOR INVENTIONS AND PRINTED BOOKS OF MACHINES.

THE RISK OF PUBLISHING CONTEMPORARY MACHINE TECHNOLOGY IN PRINT -- RECIPIENTS OF PRIVILEGES FOR INVENTIONS AS AUTHORS OF BOOKS OF MACHINES -- PRIVILEGES FOR INVENTIONS AND BOOKS OF MACHINES: INSTITUTIONS LOOKING AHEAD TO THE FUTURE -- Notes and References -- The Archer's Paradox and Modelling: A Review -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- PHYSICAL MODELS -- MATHEMATICAL MODELS -- TWO ANCIENT ARROWS -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS -- Notes and References -- A New Way of Raising Water by Fire: Denis Papin's Treatise of 1707 and its Reception by Contemporaries -- ABSTRACT -- TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE -- TRANSLATION -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER I -- CHAPTER II -- CHAPTER III -- CHAPTER IV -- CHAPTER V -- CHAPTER VI -- CHAPTER VII -- CHAPTER VIII -- APPENDIX 1 -- APPENDIX 2 -- APPENDIX 3 -- APPENDIX 4 -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Contents of Former Volumes.

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