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Introduction: Basic Tools, Devices and Mechanisms Ian McNeil Part One: Materials 1. Non-ferrous metals A.S. Darling 2. Ferrous metals W.K.V. Gale 3. The chemical industries and non-metallic elements Lance Day Part Two: Power and engineering 4.
Water, wind and animal power Kenneth Major 5. Steam and internal combustion engines E.F.C. Somerscales 6. Electricity Brian Bowers 7. Engineering, methods of manufacture and production A.K. Corry Part Three: Transport 8. Roads, bridges and vehicles Ian
McNeil 9. Inland waterways John Boyes 10. Ports and shipping A.W.H. Pearsall 11. Rail P.J.G. Ransom 12. Aeronautics J.A. Bagley 13. Spaceflight John Griffiths Part Four: Communication and calculation 14. Language, writing, printing and graphic
arts Lance Day 15. Information: Timekeeping, computing, telecommunications and audiovisual technologies Herbert Ohlman Part Five: Technology and Society 16. Agriculture: The production and preservation of food and drink Andrew Patterson 17. Textiles and clothing
Richard Hills 18. Building and architecture Doreen Yarwood 19. The domestic interior: Technology and the home Doreen Yarwood 20. Public Utilities Angus Buchanan 21. Weapons and armour Charles Messenger Index
anyone interested in this field (American Scientist - 1990)
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Brandon Cocke
reviewed An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology on July 25, 2011
An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology
A fun collection of stories about some of the visionaries of computing, but it's ultimately frustrating to read yet another giddy account of how revolutionary NLS and Doug Englebart's work was (to pick one of many examples from those heady days of the sixties and seventies) without actual concrete descriptions of the system and its actual effects on how people work.
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