Format:
1 online resource (234 pages)
,
illustrations.
ISBN:
9781350018907
Series Statement:
History of Technology Volume 21
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editorial -- The Contributors -- Notes for Contributors -- Responding to the Nineteenth Century: The Royal Navy and the Introduction of the Screw Propeller -- Abstract -- Steam, Strategy And Tactics -- The Admiralty And The Steam Warship -- The Ship Propeller Company And The Promotion Of The Screw Propeller, 1836-1852 -- Smith After The Failure Of The Company -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- The Emergence of Technical Drawing in China: The Xin Yi Xiang Fa Yao and Its Antecedents -- Earliest Representations Of Technology In China -- Technical Illustration And Early Chinese Painting -- Technical Illustration From The Third To The Tenth Centuries -- The Xin Yi Xiang Fa Yao: New Armillary Sphere And Celestial Globe System Essentials And Its Illustrations -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- The Circular Silk Mill: A Factory Before the Industrial Revolution in Early Modern Europe -- Postscript -- Notes and References -- Technology Transfer in the Great Climacteric: Machinofacture and International Patenting in World Development circa 1850-1914 -- Introduction -- Britain And Machinofacture -- Machinofacture And International Patenting -- Technology Transfer And Late Development -- Climacteric Limits -- At The Centre: Britain And Declinism Once More -- Summary And Conclusions -- Notes and References -- What Drives Innovation in Technology? -- The Growth Of Technology And The Analogy With Biological Evolution -- Human Actors As Builders Of Planned Systems -- On Intertwined Paths Of Innovation -- Summary -- Acknowledgements -- Notes and References -- The Industrialization of Chair and Table Manufacture in Japan: Subtle Interactions at the Confluence of Indigenous Culture and Western Technology -- Preface -- The Arrival Of The Western Table And Chair.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 1, 2016)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780826449610
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780826449610
Language:
English
