History of Technology Volume 17.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editorial -- In Memory of Dr Joseph Needham (1901-1995) -- The Contributors -- Notes for Contributors -- Heron of Alexandria's On Automaton-Making -- Abstract -- Introduction -- On Automaton-Making -- Notes and References -- Acknowledgements -- Archimedes the Engineer -- Introduction -- Launching The Great Ship -- Moving The Earth -- The Planetarium Or Sphere -- Archimedean Screw -- Archimedes And The Arts Of War -- Archimedes' Attitude To Engineering -- Commentary -- Notes and References -- Moriscos and Marranos as Agents of Technological Diffusion -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Notes and References -- Variations on Mass Production: The Case of Furniture Manufacture in the United States to 1940 -- Notes and References -- Space, Time and Innovation Characteristics: The Contribution of Diffusion Process Theory to the History of Technology -- Introduction -- Social Process Theory -- Social Science Theory And The History Of Technology -- The Innovation And Diffusion Process -- Notes and References -- The German Miners at Keswick and the Question of Bismuth -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Early References To Bismuth -- Local Occurrence Of Bismuth -- Smelting Of The Copper Ores -- A Miner Called Fechtenbach -- Early Uses Of Bismuth -- Notes and References -- Jean Errard (1554-1610) and His Book of Machines: Le Premier Livre des instruments mathematiques mechaniques of 1584 -- Abstract -- Notes and References -- From the Imperial-Royal Collection of Manufactured Products to the Museum of Technology and Industry in Vienna -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Beginnings Of The Collections -- Other Forerunners Of The Museum Of Technology And Industry -- The Idea Of A Technisches Museum Fur Industrie Und Gewerbe And Its Final Realization -- The Equipment Of The Museum.

Public Activities And Numbers Of Visitors -- The Research Institute For The History Of Technology -- Archives, Library And Inventory Of Collections -- Notes and References -- Cranks and Scholars -- Notes and References -- Contents of Former Volumes.

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