History of Technology Volume 12.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editorial -- The Contributors -- Notes for Contributors -- Swedish Iron and Sheffield Steel -- The Use Of Swedish Iron -- Hull Iron Merchants And Sheffield Steel -- Note -- References -- Intellectual Dependency and the Sources of Invention: Britain and the Australian Technological System in the Nineteenth Century -- Introduction-Commanding Themes -- The Australian Context -- The Australian Inventors -- Summary And Conclusions -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Rational and Irrational Reconstruction: The London Sundial-Calendar and the Early History of Geared Mechanisms -- Introduction -- Evidence From The Original Fragments -- The Form Of The Instrument: Minimal Reconstruction -- A 'Minimal Reconstruction' Of The Lost Wheelwork -- Mechanical Arrangement And Details -- The Manufacture Of Toothed Wheels -- Practical Reconstruction -- Al-Biruni's 'Box Of The Moon' Reconsidered -- Beyond The Minimal Reconstruction -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Some Roman and Byzantine Portable Sundials and the London Sundial-Calendar -- Other Dials Of The Same Type -- How The Dials Worked -- Dials With Inscriptions In Latin -- The Dials With Inscriptions In Greek -- Why A Sundial-Calendar? -- From Sun To Stars -- Appendix: The Rockford Dial -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Modern Construction Technology in Low-income Housing Policy: The Case of Industrialized Building and the Manifold Links between Technology and Society in an Established Industry -- Introduction -- Theory, Rhetoric And Links To Society -- Technical Advice And Initiation Of Policy -- Implementation: Quantitative Analysis, Effect Of Social Factors, And Comparison Between Rhetoric And Reality -- Present Status Of The Theory -- Conclusions -- Summary -- Acknowledgement -- Footnotes and References -- Book Review.

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