An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 6 docx

... missions 65 4, 65 6 sand-glass 22, 23 sanitation 918, 921–2 satellites, earth 65 2, 65 6–8 communications 65 7, 7 46 8, 965 6 meteorological 65 7 military 1010 Saturn probes 66 0 61 Saturn rockets 65 3–4, 66 1 Savannah ... terms 60 7 60 8 high-speed 60 3 60 5 horse 555–8 Japanese 5 76 7, 60 3 maglev system 60 3 monorail 5 86 narrow gauge 575 6 preservation 60 6 60 7 rack 559...

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... preservation 60 6 12. Aeronautics 60 9 J.A.Bagley Early attempts at flight 60 9 Balloons 60 9 Airships 61 4 Heavier-than-air flying machines: the pioneers 61 7 Steam power 61 9 AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE HISTORY OF ... technology 2 The archaeological ages 4 The seven technological ages of man 5 The first age: man, the hunter, masters fire 5 The second age: the...

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... CALCULATION 66 3 14. Language, Writing, Printing and Graphic Arts 66 5 Lance Day Language 66 5 Writing 66 6 The invention of printing 66 9 The growth of printing 67 1 Technological innovation in the nineteenth ... Two 64 9 Post-War research 65 1 Manned spaceflight and the space race 65 2 Satellite technology 65 6 Probes to the moon 65 8 Probes to the planets 65 9...

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... 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? ... who studied, rather than the rise and fall of civilizations, the rise and fall of technologies the technologies of hunting and weapon-making,...

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... date. These again were Egyptian and represent the first known application of a natural source of power other than animal power, the wind. The use of wind power to drive the rotating sails of a ... one of the causes of the decline of the Roman Empire. The Dark Ages The last Roman troops left Britain in AD 4 36 and all contact between Britain and Rome had ended...

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... for measuring 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 Pisa marked the start of the use of the pendu...

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... mails and greatly accelerated the spread of news by the rapid distribution of the daily papers. They popularized seaside and other holiday resorts and improved communications by their use of the ... telegraph. Most of all, the railways took away business from the turnpike roads and the canals until the horse and the canal barge became almost obsolete. More and more p...

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... after the arrival of the Spanish invaders by the North American Indian: Giovanni Verazzano, who visited the Atlantic Coast in 1524, 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 very existence of humanity as the only...

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... Tepe Giyan, in the Persian highlands, during the 4th millennium, and subsequently moved southwards to Sumeria and the Persian Gulf, and westwards to the Mediterranean seaboard, during the third ... the fourth millennium BC and were found in the 1930s at the site of Tepe Giyan, near Nahavand in Western Iran. This mountainous region, situated midway between the Persian Gulf...

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... the fourth-millennium sites of Anan and Hissar III in Iran and Naqada in Egypt. The earliest evidence of lead being used for aesthetic rather than practical purposes is provided by an Egyptian ... horses of San Marco in PART ONE: MATERIALS 66 will use for the blocks copper from Marion, the alloy being made of twelve parts, eleven of copper to one of tin. He will deli...

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