Graham Hollister-Short is an Honorary Lecturer in the History of Technology at Imperial College, London, and a member of the academic staff of the London Centre for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology, University of London.
Editorial
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The Contributors
xi
Notes for Contributors
xiii
A Failure to Communicate: The Demise of ELDO
1
(24)
Stephen B. Johnson
Building a Hybrid Landscape to Purify the Ruhr Region, 1890-1935
25
(18)
Edmund N. Todd
The Craft of the Bell Founder: The Chyaryshnikovs, a Russian Bell-founding Family
43
(20)
Tatyana Shashkina
John Farey and His Treatise on the Steam Engine of 1827
63
(44)
A. P. Woolrich
Summer Breeze and Flushing Toilet: Deception and Reality about Our Technical Past
107
(36)
Michael Fores
The Establishment of the Society of Chemical Engineers in Pre-war Japan
143
(12)
Yuji Jido
Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege (1777-1855), a German Engineer of Mining and Metallurgy in Portugal and Brazil
155
(18)
Friedrich Toussaint
Symposium: The Current State of the History of Technology in Britain
171
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Introduction
173
(8)
Graham Hollister-Short
Reflections on the History of Technology in Britain
181
(8)
David Edgerton
The Flourishing of History of Technology in the United Kingdom: A Critique of Antiquarian Complaints of `Neglect'
189
(14)
Graeme Gooday
Where Is the History of Technology?
203
(8)
Rupert Hall
Reflections on the Decline of the History of Technology in Britain
211
(12)
R. Angus Buchanan
Some Thoughts on the History of Technology and Its Current Condition in Britain
223
(10)
H. S. Torrens
Pursuing Big Books: Technological Change in Global History
233
(22)
Ian Inkster
History of Technology in Germany: A Success Story?
255
(10)
Hans-Joachim Braun
Contents of Former Volumes
265
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