Hempstead / Worthington Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Technology

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-135-45551-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 992 Seiten

Comprising 395 essays arranged alphabetically, mostly on individual objects, artefacts, techniques, and products, this is an up-to-date work of reference for all those involved in teaching or researching the history of twentieth-century technology.

For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encycloped ia of 20th-Century Technology website.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hempstead, Colin

Worthington, William

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Selected Entries Include:

Anaesthetics
Angiography

Artificial intelligence
Audio systems - personal stereo
Battleships and dreadnoughts
Bioengineering materials
Blood transfusion and products
Cancer

Catamarans
Composite materials
Computer-user interface
Concrete
Control technology - computer aided
Dairying
Dams
Electroencephalogram
Fert ilisers
Food preservation, cooling and freezing
Gender and technology
Gene therapy
'Green' chemistry
Intensive care and life support
Internal combustion piston engine
Internet
Isotopic analysis
Lasers

Lighting techniques
Microwave ovens
Motorways
Packet switching
Positron Emission Tomography
Radar - defensive systems, World War II
Rail - high speed
Satellites - intelligence gathering
Space exploration - Moon, manned
Space stations

Technology and law
Technology and leisure
Telecommunications
Telephony

Television

Ultrasound in medicine
Wright Flyers
X-rays in diagnostic medicine

Über Autor(innen)

Colin Hempstead is a former reader in the History of Science and Technology, University of Teesside (UK) and the former chairman of the History of Technology Committee of the Institute of Electrical Engineers (UK). William Worthington is the former curator of the history of technology at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC.