History of Technology Volume 13

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. Frank A.J.L James, Professor of History of Science, The Royal Institution of Great Britain.

Editorial

The Contributors

Notes for Contributors

Michael Faraday, Cable Telegraphy and the Rise of Field Theory, Bruce J. Hunt

Telegraphy and the Technology of Display: The Electricians and Samuel Morse, Iwan R. Morus

Electromagnetic Engines: Pre-technology and Development Immediately Following Faraday's Discovery of Electromagnetic Rotations, Brian Gee

Teaching Telegraphy and Electrotechnics in the Physics Laboratory: William Ayrton and the Creation of an Academic Space for Electrical Engineering in Britain 1873-1884, Graeme Gooday

'The Engineer Must Be a Scientific Man': The Origins of the Society of Telegraph Engineers, W. J. Reader

An Appraisal of Fleeming Jenkin (1833-1885), Electrical Engineer, C. A. Hempstead

The Sources for a Biography of Oliver Heavside, A. C. Lynch

Building Thomas Edison's Laboratory at West Orange, New Jersey: A Case Study in Using Craft Knowledge for Technological Invention, 1886-1888, W. Bernard Carlson

Edison and Early Electrical Engineering in Britain, Brian Bowers

The Contributions of the Bell Telephone Laboratories to the Early Development of Television, R. W. Burns

Technology Transfer in Russian Electrification, 1870-1925, Jonathan Coopersmith

ICOHTEC XVIII Conference Report: A Personal View, G. Hollister-Short

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