History of Technology Volume 22.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editorial -- The Contributors -- Notes for Contributors -- A Failure to Communicate: The Demise of ELDO -- European Rocketry And The Creation Of Eldo -- Ageing Technology And Changing Objectives -- Organizing For Failure -- 'Paris We Have A Problem ...' With Interfaces -- Disaster And Dissolution -- Conclusion -- Acronyms Used In This Paper -- Acknowledgements -- Notes and References -- Building a Hybrid Landscape to Purify the Ruhr Region, 1890-1935 -- Abstract -- Introduction -- 'Industrial Preserve' as 'Trading Zone' -- Forms Of Pollution -- The Ruhrverband As An Organizational Hybrid -- Building A Vigorous Hybrid System -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes and References -- The Craft of the Bell Founder: The Chyaryshnikovs, a Russian Bell-founding Family -- Glorious Is God In His Saints -- Acknowledgements -- Notes and References -- John Farey and His Treatise on the Steam Engine of 1827 -- Part 1 -- Part 2 -- EPILOGUE: THE SUBSEQUENT FATE OF VOLUME TWO -- Appendix 1: Synopsis For Remainder Of The Treatise -- Appendix 2: Annotated List Of Plates And Woodcuts Intended For The Second Volume Of Farey's Treatise On The Steam Engine -- Acknowledgements -- Notes and References -- Summer Breeze and Flushing Toilet: Deception and Reality about Our Technical Past -- 1. Of Robbery, Skill, Making, Faith, Life, Deceit And Magic In The Human Realm -- 2. Of Universals, 'Discoveries', Homocraft And The Clothed Species In Vogue -- 3. About Time, Seams, Communications And Power In Berlin And Elsewhere: A Play -- 4. Back Home To Locality -- Acknowledgements -- Notes and References -- The Establishment of the Society of Chemical Engineers in Pre-war Japan -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Concepts Of Chemical Engineering -- Some Factors Involved In An Institutional Framework For Chemical Engineering.

Chemical Engineering Terminology -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege (1777-1855), a German Engineer of Mining and Metallurgy in Portugal and Brazil -- Notes and References -- Symposium: The Current State Of The History Of Technology In Britain -- Introduction -- Reflections on the History of Technology in Britain -- Notes and references -- The Flourishing of History of Technology in the United Kingdom: A Critique of Antiquarian Complaints of 'Neglect' -- Introduction -- History Of Technology Is More Than Just The History Of Engineering -- History Of Technology Is More Than Just The History Of Artefacts -- History Of Technology Needs More Than Just One Particular 'Historical' Approach -- History Of Technology Should Be About More Than Just Benign Victorious Technologies -- History Of Technology Should Appeal To The Sensibilities Of A Wide Audience -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- Where Is the History of Technology? -- Notes and References -- Reflections on the Decline of the History of Technology in Britain -- Abstract -- Reflections On The Decline Of The History Of Technology In Britain -- Notes and References -- Some Thoughts on the History of Technology and Its Current Condition in Britain -- Introduction -- The Culture Of History Of Technology -- Some Problems Facing The History Of Technology In Britain -- Acknowledgements -- Notes and References -- Pursuing Big Books: Technological Change in Global History -- Introduction -- Technology And Political Economy -- Twists Of Initiative And Sources Of Power -- 450 Dodge Hall - Technology In The Landes-Frank Showdown -- Technology In The World -- Notes and References -- History of Technology in Germany: A Success Story? -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Notes and References -- Contents of Former Volumes.

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