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An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 108 pptx

... 583tramways 161, 45 6, 555–8transfer machines 41 7transfer printing (pottery) 1 94 transformers 371transistor radios 728transistors 42 , 41 9, 703transmission cables 371–2transplanting 773transporter ... disc 328Van Harinxma Canal 49 2Van Starkenborgh Canal 49 2Vanguard rocket 656Variomatic belt dirve 45 2vat dyes 199vaulting 8 74 9Velcro fastener 852–3velocipede 44 5 steam-powered 44 7Velox ... 507ridge and furrow 772, 782rifle grenades 991, 10 04 anti-tank 9 94 rifles 40 3, 40 5, 983 4 anti-tank 9 94 Browningautomatic 992 repeating 985ring frames 841 –2Rio Tinto mines 55, 70, 231rivets 14...

An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 1 potx

... transport ancillaries 45 9Road maps 46 1Bridges 46 2Tunnels 46 7Earthmoving and roadbuilding machinery 47 09. Inland Waterways 47 4John Boyes The ancient world 47 4 The British Isles 47 5France 48 2 The ... road transport: initial experiments 43 9Bicycles 44 2Motor cycles 44 7 The motor car 44 9Automotive engines 45 3Trams and trolleybuses 45 6Buses 45 7Electrically operated vehicles 45 8Road transport ... Countries 48 9Germany 49 4 The Rhine 49 9Italy 500Greece 501Sweden 501 The Soviet Union 502Eastern Europe 5 04 Spain and Portugal 505 The Suez Canal 505Japan 506Canada 506 The United States 509The...

An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 2 doc

... DEVICESAND MECHANISMSIAN McNEIL THE PLACE OF TECHNOLOGY IN HISTORY It is strange that, in the study and teaching of history, so little attention is paidto the history of technology. Political and ... wasmore often than not economic, and economic history and the history of technology can surely be considered as twin hand-maidens, the one almosttotally dependent on the other. So far as social history ... behind them all. What monarchs and statesmen did in the past, how they fought their wars and which side won, was largely dependenton the state of their technology and that of their enemy. Their...

An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 3 docx

... practice, and this is the first step in the process of moving forward to a new solution. Thus the history of technology and the history of invention are very much the same.Why study the history of technology? ... whostudied, rather than the rise and fall of civilizations, the rise and fall of technologies the technologies of hunting and weapon-making, of herding anddomesticating animals, of crop-growing and agriculture, ... promises to change human life moreswiftly and more radically than any of its predecessors. THE FIRST AGE: MAN, THE HUNTER, MASTERS FIRE The history of technology can be said to be older than man himself,...

An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 4 pps

... one of the causes of the decline of the Roman Empire. The Dark Ages The last Roman troops left Britain in AD 43 6 and all contact between Britainand Rome had ended by 45 0. To a great extent the ... numbers of slaves, there was a demand for such mechanization as was available and the successors of the Romans continued to build water mills. At the time of the Domesday survey there was an estimated ... groundOn the other hand, the introduction of metallurgy, whether of bronze oriron, and its processes did become the start of a new way of living in whichINTRODUCTION20Water supply was of the greatest...

An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 5 docx

... formeasuring the bores of cannon and the diameter of cannon balls. The crank An important development in the Middle Ages was that of mechanisms for the interconversion of rotary and reciprocating ... weight. All the gears were of brass.Galileo’s observations of the swinging altar lamp in the cathedral of Pisamarked the start of the use of the pendulum as a means of controlling the speed of clocks. ... to the printing of books.Apart from the building of many fortified castles and some notable manorhouses, the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were the peak of the construction of Europe’s many...

An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 6 docx

... 19 14 and to 650, 148 by 1920. In 1938, 44 4,877 vehicles wereproduced in Britain and 2 ,48 9,085 in the United States. There are some 22million cars in Britain today. The rest of the story of the ... in the materials used in buildings. They caused the decline of manytowns and villages which were not served by the railway lines. They speededup the mails and greatly accelerated the spread of ... spread of news by the rapiddistribution of the daily papers. They popularized seaside and other holidayresorts and improved communications by their use of the telegraph. Most of all, the railways...

An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 7 pdf

... after the arrival of the Spanish invaders by the North American Indian:Giovanni Verazzano, who visited the Atlantic Coast in 15 24, commented upon the vast quantities of copper owned by the Indians, ... ridiculous and to many others a threat to the dignity of themselves as members of the human race or worse, a threat to the veryexistence of humanity as the only reasoning animal living on the planet.Americans ... to complain about. Humans aren’t the best ditch-diggers in the world, machines are. And humans can’t lift as much as a crane. They can’tfly without an airplane. And they can’t carry as much as...

An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 8 ppt

... Tepe Giyan, in the Persian highlands, during the 4th millennium, and subsequently movedsouthwards to Sumeria and the Persian Gulf, and westwards to the Mediterranean seaboard, during the third ... the fourthmillennium BC and were found in the 1930s at the site of Tepe Giyan, nearNahavand in Western Iran. This mountainous region, situated midway between the Persian Gulf and the Caspian ... constituent of ancient copper.It has been suggested that the Sumerians who made these artefacts camefrom the Caucasus and were instrumental in transferring the arts of metallurgyfrom the land of Elam...

An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 9 doc

... found its wayinto many of the later Roman bronzes, which by the middle of the second centuryAD tended to contain comparable quantities of zinc and tin. The characteristics of these alloys, which ... trulyRoman in origin, the improved standards of living associated with the rapiddissemination of the Roman way of life stimulated metallurgical demand,and encouraged the rapid diffusion of improved ... fourth-millennium sites of Anan and Hissar III in Iran andNaqada in Egypt. The earliest evidence of lead being used for aesthetic rather than practicalpurposes is provided by an Egyptian figurine 5cm...

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