History of Technology Volume 18.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editorial Note -- The Contributors -- Notes for Contributors -- Theory and Responsibility in Science and Technology -- Notes -- On the Lift Pump -- Introduction -- Mechanical Principles -- Action Of Pumps -- History In Outline -- Taccola's Pumps -- Comparison And Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes and References -- Acknowledgements -- Discoveries, Inventions and Industrial Revolutions: On the Varying Contributions of Technologies and Institutions from an International Historical Perspective -- Introduction -- Interpretations -- James Watt And All That -- Catching Up And Taking Over -- Conclusions -- Notes and References -- James Watt, Mechanical Engineer -- Notes and References -- Technological Advance in the Manufacture of Chemicals: The Case of Cyanide, 1888-1930 -- Introduction -- The Early Years -- The Early British-German Connection -- The First Extension Of Cyanide Technology -- Increasing Competition And The Price War Of 1896-7 -- Further Development In Cyanide Manufacturing Technology -- State Of The Cyanide Industry, 1904-14 -- World War I And Its Aftermath -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes and References -- Putting the Wind up the Pilot: Cloud Flying with Early Aircraft Instruments -- Problems Of Vibration And Acceleration -- Early Aircraft Compasses -- Wartime Compasses Development By Keith Lucas At Farnborough -- Darwin's Static Turn Indicator -- Pendulums, French Tops And Gyroscopic Turn Indicators -- Summary -- Notes and References -- 'Seeing' Is Believing: The Development of Microwave Radar in Britain, Summer 1940 -- Introduction -- The Klystron Experiments -- The Magnetron Arrives: The Initial Success On 10 Cm -- Conclusions: What Was Achieved -- Notes and References -- Diffusion of Brewing Technology since 1900: Change and the Consumer -- Brewing Technology And History.

Brewing: Traditional Or Progressive? -- Theories Of Innovation And Technological Chang -- Science, New Beers And The Consumer -- Notes and References -- Contents of Former Volumes.

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