History of Technology Volume 22

Graham Hollister-Short is an Honorary Lecturer in the History of Technology at Imperial College, London, and a member of the academic staff of the London Centre for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology, University of London.

A failure to communicate - the demise of ELDO; building a hybrid landscape to purify the Ruhr region, 1890-1935; the craft of the bell founder - the Chyaryshnikovs, a Russian bell-founding family; John Farey and his "Treatise on the Steam Engine" of 1827; summer breeze and flushing toilet - deception and reality about our technical past; the establishment of the Society of Chemical Engineers in pre-War Japan; Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege (1777-1855) - a German engineer of mining and metallurgy in Portugal and Brazil. Symposium - the current state of the history of technology in Britain: Reflections on the history of technology in the United kingdom - a critique of antiquarian complaints of "neglect"; where is the history of technology?; reflections on the decline of the history of technology in Britain; some thoughts on the history of technology and its current condition in Britain; pursuing big books - technological change in global history; history of technology in German - a success story?; content of former volumes.