History of Technology Volume 21.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editorial -- The Contributors -- Notes for Contributors -- Responding to the Nineteenth Century: The Royal Navy and the Introduction of the Screw Propeller -- Abstract -- Steam, Strategy And Tactics -- The Admiralty And The Steam Warship -- The Ship Propeller Company And The Promotion Of The Screw Propeller, 1836-1852 -- Smith After The Failure Of The Company -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- The Emergence of Technical Drawing in China: The Xin Yi Xiang Fa Yao and Its Antecedents -- Earliest Representations Of Technology In China -- Technical Illustration And Early Chinese Painting -- Technical Illustration From The Third To The Tenth Centuries -- The Xin Yi Xiang Fa Yao: New Armillary Sphere And Celestial Globe System Essentials And Its Illustrations -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- The Circular Silk Mill: A Factory Before the Industrial Revolution in Early Modern Europe -- Postscript -- Notes and References -- Technology Transfer in the Great Climacteric: Machinofacture and International Patenting in World Development circa 1850-1914 -- Introduction -- Britain And Machinofacture -- Machinofacture And International Patenting -- Technology Transfer And Late Development -- Climacteric Limits -- At The Centre: Britain And Declinism Once More -- Summary And Conclusions -- Notes and References -- What Drives Innovation in Technology? -- The Growth Of Technology And The Analogy With Biological Evolution -- Human Actors As Builders Of Planned Systems -- On Intertwined Paths Of Innovation -- Summary -- Acknowledgements -- Notes and References -- The Industrialization of Chair and Table Manufacture in Japan: Subtle Interactions at the Confluence of Indigenous Culture and Western Technology -- Preface -- The Arrival Of The Western Table And Chair.

Bentwood Chairs And The Craftsmen Of Hida -- Karuizawa Wooden Sculpture As A Counter-Example To The Hida Craft Experience -- The Role Of The Jōmin (Ordinary People) -- The Situation Today In The Japanese Wooden Furniture Industry -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- Metals and Metallurgical Processes in North Italy in Biringuccio's Work -- Acknowledgement -- Notes and References -- Maîtrise et Transmission des Connaissances Techniques au Moyen Âge -- Technical Knowledge In The Middle Ages And Its Transmission -- Notes and References -- Current Research in the History of Technology in Europe -- Introduction -- Early Research In The History Of Technology -- Current Research And Research Concepts -- Technology Transfer -- Technical Education -- Failed Innovations -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes and References -- Nieuports and Spads: French Pursuit Planes and American Airpower in World War I -- Note On Nomenclature -- Notes and References -- The Power of Ceremony: Creating an International Engineering Community -- Notes and References -- Contents of Former Volumes.

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