An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 9 doc
An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 108 pptx
... Canal 507 ridge and furrow 772, 782 rifle grenades 99 1, 1004 anti-tank 99 4 rifles 403, 405, 98 3–4 anti-tank 99 4 Browning automatic 99 2 repeating 98 5 ring frames 841–2 Rio Tinto mines 55, 70, 231 rivets ... 96 2–3 watches 24, 392 , 696 , 697 water clock 16, 22–3, 392 , 694 water closets 92 1–2 water conservation 95 4–5 water desalination 95 5 water heaters 91 9–20, 92 8 9...
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An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 1 potx
... Devices and Mechanisms 1 Ian McNeil The place of technology in history 1 Science and technology 2 The archaeological ages 4 The seven technological ages of man 5 The first age: man, the hunter, ... 501 Sweden 501 The Soviet Union 502 Eastern Europe 504 Spain and Portugal 505 The Suez Canal 505 Japan 506 Canada 506 The United States 5 09 The Panama Canal 514 Canal...
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An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 2 doc
... era 96 8 The Dark Ages 97 1 The age of chivalry 97 2 The introduction of gunpowder 97 5 The Renaissance 97 6 Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 97 8 The industrial age 98 3 The First World War 98 9 The ... facilities 91 7 Cleaning in the home 92 2 Laundering 92 8 The kitchen and cooking 93 4 Plastics in the home 94 7 CONTENTS xiii 20. Public Utilities...
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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? ... 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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An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 4 pps
... 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 ... of his mount to the weapon in his hand, be it sword, axe or lance. Some idea of the state of manufactures in the sixth and seventh centuries is given by artefacts...
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An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 5 docx
... 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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An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 6 docx
... 191 4 and to 650,148 by 192 0. In 193 8, 444,877 vehicles were produced in Britain and 2,4 89, 085 in the United States. There are some 22 million cars in Britain today. The rest of the story of the ... launched and, by 190 7, this was followed by the 52MW (70,000hp) 39, 000 tonne liner, the Mauretania. The steam turbine and reduction gearing was well and truly launched on...
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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 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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An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 8 ppt
... the fourth millennium BC and were found in the 193 0s at the site of Tepe Giyan, near Nahavand in Western Iran. This mountainous region, situated midway between the Persian Gulf and the Caspian ... 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,...
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An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 9 doc
... Athenian Empire. Other famous silver mines were those in the Pangaean region of Macedonia, and the Cycladic island of Siphnos. Mining at Siphnos began some time between 3150 and 2 790 BC. The silver ... truly Roman in origin, the improved standards of living associated with the rapid dissemination of the Roman way of life stimulated metallurgical demand, and encouraged...
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