An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 69 potx
An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 108 pptx
... 282 poppet 282 slide 282, 344–5,
404 thermionic 41, 727, see also diode; triode
Wankel rotating disc 328
Van Harinxma Canal 492
Van Starkenborgh Canal 492
Vanguard rocket 656
Variomatic belt dirve ... machines 417
transfer printing (pottery) 194
transformers 371
transistor radios 728
transistors 42, 419, 703
transmission cables 371–2
transplanting 773
transporter bridges 496, 518
trapetum 263...
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, ... fire 5
The second age: the farmer, the smith and the wheel 11
The third age: the first machine age 22
The fourth age: intimations of automation 27
The fifth ag...
An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 2 doc
... how they fought their wars and which side won, was largely dependent
on the state of their technology and that of their enemy. Their motivation was
more often than not economic, and economic history ... history and the history of
technology can surely be considered as twin hand-maidens, the one almost
totally dependent on the other. So far as social history is concer...
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,...
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...
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...
An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 6 docx
... in the materials used in buildings. They caused the decline of many
towns and villages which were not served by the railway lines. They speeded
up the mails and greatly accelerated the spread of ... 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...
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...
An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 8 ppt
... 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...
An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 9 doc
... found its way
into many of the later Roman bronzes, which by the middle of the second century
AD tended to contain comparable quantities of zinc and tin. The characteristics of
these alloys, which ... truly
Roman in origin, the improved standards of living associated with the rapid
dissemination of the Roman way of life stimulated metallurgical demand,
and encourag...