Umfang:
1 online resource (238 pages)
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illustrations.
ISBN:
9781350018969
Serie:
History of Technology Volume 23
Inhalt:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editorial -- The Contributors -- Notes for Contributors -- Standards, Trust and Civil Discourse: Measuring the Thickness and Quality of Silk Thread -- Notes and References -- Technological Transfers between Politics, Markets and Culture: Framework Knitting versus Hand-knitting in the Southern Netherlands (Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries) -- Introduction -- The Hosiery Trade In The Southern Netherlands From The Middle Ages To The End Of The Seventeenth Century -- The Introduction And Diffusion Of The Hosiery Frame In The Southern Netherlands -- Hand-Knitting And Framework Knitting: The Relations Between Men And Women -- The Economic And Social Organization Of The Hosiery Industry -- Explanations -- Implications -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- A Philosophical Business: Edward Nairne and the Patent Medical Electrical Machine (1782) -- The Philosophical Avocations Of An Instrument Maker -- Electricity Under The Great Seal -- Advertising The Machine -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- Innovation or Emulation? Silverware and Its Imitations in Britain 1750-1800. The Consumers' Point of View -- Introduction -- Imitative Metalwares: A Brief Survey -- Consumer Attitudes To Precious Metal Substitutes -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- Technology and the Labour Process: A Comparison of British Railway Companies' Approaches to Locomotive Construction before 1914 -- Introduction -- Explaining The British Railway Company Workshops' Technology Policies - Recent Theories And Approaches -- Methodological Approaches -- Britain's railway company workshops, 1840-1914. Britain's locomotive engineering industry, origins and form -- Reviewing The Production Process In Britain's Railway Company Workshops, 1830s-1914 -- Conclusion -- Notes and References.
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. Description based on print version record
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780826456168
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780826456168
Sprache:
Englisch
