An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 88 pot

... 555–8 transfer 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 ... 876 Romans 18 baths and sanitation 918 brass and zinc artefacts 75 bridges 19, 462–3 building and architecture 19–20, 856, 859, 868, 873, 875, 876, 879–80, 885 , 887 –8, 889 canals 4...

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... 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...

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... 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...

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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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... 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 ... sun. The making of pots by coiling strips of clay in a spiral and then moulding them together is supposed to date from about 7000 BC, as is the moulding of clay to...

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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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... 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 people ... by the railway lines. They speeded up the mails and greatly accelerated the spread of news by the rapid distribution of the daily papers. They popular...

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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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... provided the wealth needed to support the 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 ... 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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