History of Technology, Volume Twenty-Seven

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8264-9599-0
Verlag: Continnuum-3PL

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 432 g

Reihe: History of Technology

Explores the relationship of technology with social and economic development
- Includes a special issue on the Professional Identity of Engineers: Historical and Contemporary Issues
- International authorship with a highly respected editorial board.

The technical problems confronting different societies and periods and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. It deals with the history of technical discovery and change and explores the relationship of technology to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic - and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.

Volume 27 includes a special issue on The Professional Identity of Engineers: Historical and Contemporary Issues.

Zielgruppe

Libraries, Academics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Inkster, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technikgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The diffusion and transmission of the rotary-fan winnowing machine from China to Europe: New findings and new questions - Hans Ulrich Vogel
2. Watt in Court: Specifying Steam Engines and Classifying Engineers in the Patent Trials of the 1790s -David P. Miller
3. Business and geopolitics in the international transfer of technology: The Spanish submarine cables 1849-1930 -Ángel Calvo

Special Issue: The Professional Identity of Engineers. Historical and Contemporary Issues
Introduction. Identifying Engineers in History - Irina Gouzevitch and Ian Inkster.
1. French Engineers: Between Unity and Heterogeneity - André Grelon
2. Industrial Engineering in Spain in the first half of the XX Century: from renewal to crisis - Antoni Roca Rosell, Guillermo Lusa-Monforte, Francaesc Barca-Salomon,
Carles Puig-Pla
3. Being an Engineer in the European Periphery. Three Case Studies on Portuguese Engineering - Maria Paula Diogo and Ana Cardoso de Matos

Über Autor(innen)

Ian Inkster is Research Professor of International History, Faculty of Humanities, The Nottingham Trent University, UK.