History of Technology

Dr 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.

The PAL-SECAM colour television controversy; inventing the miracle battery - Thomas Edison and the electric vehicle; two knights at Pandemonium - a worm's-eye view of Boulton; the mechanization of carving; John Farey and his treatise on the steam engine, 1827; protection and promotion - privileges for inventions and books of machines in the early modern period; the archer's paradox and modelling - a review; a new way of raising water by fire - Denis Papin's treatise of 1707 and its reception by contemporaries; contents of former volumes.