History of Technology Volume 28

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2009
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (Verlag)
978-0-8264-3875-1 (ISBN)

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Focuses on morality, locality and 'standardization' in the work of British consulting electrical engineers, 1880-1914. This title deals with the history of technical discovery and change. It explores the relationship of technology to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic.

This special edition focuses on morality, locality and 'standardization' in the work of British consulting electrical engineers, 1880-1914. The technical problems confronting different societies and periods and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. It deals with the history of technical discovery and change and explores the relationship of technology to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic - and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.

Ian Inkster is Research Professor of International History at Nottingham Trent University. He has broad research interests across the history of industrialisation and technological change, and in global history.

- Morality, locality and 'standardization' in the work of British consulting electrical engineers, 1880-1914; - Technology, vision and practice: rethinking closure in the history of artificial illumination; - Standardization across the boundaries of the Bell System, 1920-1938; - Battery birds, 'stimulighting' and 'twilighting': the ecology of standardized poultry technology; - Basicode: co-producing a microcomputer Esperanto; - Standards and compatibility: the rise of the PC platform; IPv6: a history of the next-generation Internet.

Reihe/Serie	History of Technology
Zusatzinfo	15
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8264-3875-X / 082643875X
ISBN-13	978-0-8264-3875-1 / 9780826438751
Zustand	Neuware