TY  - BOOK
AU  - Inkster,Ian
TI  - History of Technology Volume 25
T2  - History of Technology Series
SN  - 9781441196163
AV  - T15.H578 2004eb 
U1  - 609 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
KW  - Technology -- History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Editorial -- The Contributors -- Notes for Contributors -- An Early Tower Windmill? The Turweston 'Post mill' Reconsidered -- Notes and References -- Prefabricating Stories: Innovation in Systems Technology after the Second World War -- ACTORS AND CONVERSATIONS -- PREFABRICATION: MORE IN THE MIND? -- INNOVATION, EVALUATION AND LOTS OF PREJUDICE -- CONCLUSION -- Notes and References -- Impacts of Technology Reassessed: A Retrospective Analysis of Computing Technology -- INTRODUCTION -- THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY -- GROWING DEMANDS (1900-60) -- ACCELERATING TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT -- CONNECTIVITY IN THE 1990s -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- Acknowledgements -- Notes and References -- Special Issue: The Global History of the Steam Engine -- Introduction. Indisputable Features and Nebulous Contexts: The Steam Engine as a Global Inquisition -- Notes and Footnotes -- Some Reflections on the Use of 'Styles of Scientific Thinking' to Disaggregate and Sharpen Comparisons Between China and Europe from Song to Mid-Qing Times (960-1850 CE) -- INTRODUCTION -- THE POSTULATIONAL STYLE -- THE EXPERIMENTAL STYLE OF THINKING -- MODELLING -- TAXONOMY -- PROBABILISTIC THINKING -- HISTORICAL DERIVATION -- THE MATHEMATIZATION OF NATURE -- THE SOCIAL MATRIX -- Acknowledgements -- Notes and References -- Comments on Mark Elvin -- Inside Newcomen's Fire Engine, or: The Scientific Revolution and the Rise of the Modern World -- A TEXT TO START FROM -- NEWCOMEN'S ENGINE, FROM THE OUTSIDE IN -- REVOLUTIONARY SCIENCE IN THE ENGINE -- BETWEEN THE BACONIAN DREAM AND ITS REALIZATION -- A BRITISH EXCEPTION -- A CHINESE STEAM ENGINE? -- MODERN SCIENCE AND THE WESTERN ORIGINS OF THE MODERN WORLD -- Notes and References -- The Emergence of Science-based Technology. Comments on Floris Cohen's Paper; Notes and References -- The Formation of Knowledge Concerning Atmospheric Pressure and Steam Power in Europe from Aleotti (1589) to Papin (1690) -- Notes and References -- Why the Chinese Failed to Develop a Steam Engine -- INTRODUCTION: THE ISSUE -- METHODOLOGY AND SOURCE INFORMATION -- CHINESE UNDERSTANDING OF ENERGY AND ITS FORMS -- CHINESE USE OF WATER AND FIRE AS ENERGY SOURCES WITHOUT STEAM -- CHINESE MACHINES WITHOUT AN ENGINE -- WHY MINING WAS NOT THE HOTBED FOR THE STEAM ENGINE IN CHINA -- Notes and References -- Response to Kent Deng -- Notes and References -- Response to Kent Deng -- Notes -- References -- The Development of the Steam Engine from Watt to Stephenson -- THE IMPACT OF THE STEAM ENGINE -- THE INFLUENCE OF JAMES WATT -- THE HIGH-PRESSURE ENGINE -- THE STEAM ENGINE APPLIED TO TRANSPORT -- THE STEAMBOAT -- ROAD TRANSPORT -- RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES -- Notes and References -- The Resources of Decisive Technological Change: Reflections on Richard Hills -- Notes and References -- Steam Power and Networks in China, 1860-98: The Historical Issues -- INTRODUCTION -- CIRCUMSTANCES -- THE TECHNOLOGIES -- THE WEDGE THEORY VS. THE SHANGHAI METHOD -- THE TELEGRAPH: NEW STRATAGEMS -- CHINESE RAILWAY LINES -- CONCLUSION -- CODA -- Notes and References -- A Comment on Sivin and Zhang -- Contents of Former Volumes
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