History of Technology

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.

Heron of Alexandria's "On Automaton-making", Susan Murphy; Archimedes the engineer, D.L. Simms; Moriscos and Marranos as agents of technical diffusion, Thomas F. Glick; variations on mass production - the case of furniture manufacture in the United States, Carroll Pursell; space, time and innovation characteristics - the contribution of diffusion process theory to the history of technology, Jennifer Tann; the German miners at Keswick and the question of bismuth, David Bridge; Jean Errard (1554-1610) and his book of machines, "Le Premier Livre des Instruments Mathematiques Mechaniques" of 1584, Walter Endrei; from the imperial-royal collection of manufactured products to the museum technology and industry in Vienna, Hellmut Janetschek; cranks and scholars, Graham Hollister-Short; contents of former volumes.