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Bücher der Reihe Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology

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  • - A History of the Vertical Water Wheel
    von Terry S. (Michigan Technological University) Reynolds
    51,00 €

    Spanning more than 2000 years, Terry Reynolds's account follows the progression of this labor-saving device from Asia to the Middle East, Europe, and America-covering the evolution of the water wheel itself, the development of dams and reservoirs, and the applications of water power.

  • - Projectors, Popular Politics, and State Building in Early Modern England
    von Eric H. Ash
    71,00 €

    This is compelling reading for British historians, environmental scholars, historians of technology, and anyone interested in state formation in early modern Europe.

  • - The Making of Modern America, 1865-1925
    von Thomas J. (University of Minnesota) Misa
    53,00 €

    A Nation of Steel offers a detailed and fascinating look at an industry that has had a profound impact on American life.

  • von Otto Mayr
    46,00 €

    Otto Mayr, the director of Germany's leading technological museum, explores the relationship between machinery, technological thought, and culture. Contrasting England and the Continent, particularly in the eighteenth century, he uncovers a stikring pattern of technological metaphors applied to political systems-and lays the foundations of a new intellectual history of technology

  • - Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940
    von Arwen P. (University of Delaware) Mohun
    45,00 €

    The British-American comparison further reveals differences owing to culture, regulation, and social structure as well as the unexpected transatlantic character of this seemingly localized business.

  • - American Household Plumbing, 1840-1890
    von Maureen Ogle
    45,00 €

    She examines advancements in water-supply and waste-management technology, the architectural considerations these amenities entailed, and the scientific approach to sanitation that began to emerge by century's end.

  • - Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986
    von Arthur L. (University of Minnesota) Norberg
    55,00 €

    And they show how, by the 1990s, the research results had been assimilated into systems both for the military and for civilian society.

  • - Technology and the American Photographic Industry, 1839-1925
    von Reese V. Jenkins
    60,00 €

    Images and Enterprise vividly portrays the emergence of cinematography in its relationship to traditional photography and reveals the growing importance of institutionalized research, as Eastman Kodak and the other American and European photographic materials manufacturers strove to develop commercially practical color photography.

  • - Analytical Studies from Aeronautical History
    von Walter G. Vincenti
    44,00 €

    To solve their design problems, engineers draw on a vast body of knowledge about how things work. Examining previously unstudied historical cases, this author shows how engineering knowledge is obtained and presents a model to help explain the growth of such knowledge.

  • - Gunpowder, Technology, and Tactics
    von Bert S. Hall
    47,00 €

    Hall details the efforts of armorers across Europe as they experimented with a variety of gunpowder recipes and gunsmithing techniques, and he examines the integration of new weapons into the existing structure of European warfare.

  • von Susan J. (University of Michigan) Douglas
    49,00 €

    Douglas reveals the origins of a corporate media system that today dominates the content and form of American communication.

  • - The Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1835-1955
    von Laurence F. Gross
    47,00 €

    The increased textile demands of World War II, Gross explains, only forestalled the mills' inevitable demise.

  • - Inventor and Engineer
    von Thomas Parker Hughes
    55,00 €

    This is a biography of a major American inventor. Elmer Sperry contributed greatly to the technological changes occurring between 1880 and 1930. Characteristic of his various inventions were feedback controls which have made automation a fact of life.

  • - How Technology Won the Civil War
    von Thomas F. & Jr. Army
    39,00 €

    He reveals massive logistical operations as critical in determining the war's outcome.

  • - Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks after the Roman Empire
    von Roberta J. (University of Oklahoma) Magnusson
    64,00 €

    Focusing attention on gravity-fed water-flow systems in mediaeval cities and monasteries, this is a study of water technology in the Middle Ages. Roberta J. Magnusson challenges the view that hydraulic engineering died with the Romans and remained moribund until the Renaissance.

  • - Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, and Shelby J. Davidson
    von Rayvon (Purdue University) Fouche
    41,00 €

    Describes the struggles of three African American men who try to balance racial identity with a desire to be judged solely on the merit of their inventive work. This book provides a nuanced view of African American contributors to technology during a period of rapid industrialization.

  • von Andre (University of Alabama at Birmingham) Millard
    54,00 €

    From extensive research in the Edison archives at West Orange, New Jersey, Andre Millard presents new information about Edison the businessman and provides new interpretations of old issues.

  • - Machine and Myth in Antebellum America
    von Angela Lakwete
    46,00 €

    Far from being a record of southern failure, Lakwete concludes, the cotton gin-correctly understood-supplies evidence that the slave labor-based antebellum South innovated, industrialized, and modernized.

  • - Research Labs, Start-up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology
    von Ross Knox Bassett
    46,00 €

    To the Digital Age offers a captivating account of the intricate R & D process behind a technological device that transformed modern society.

  • von David Hochfelder
    44,00 - 74,00 €

    With this book, Hochfelder supplies us with an introduction to the early stirrings of the information age.

  • - The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine
    von Donald Kettl & Jonathan Coopersmith
    45,00 €

    Tells the history of the facsimile machine. The author recounts the multigenerational, multinational history of that device from its origins to its workplace glory days, in the process revealing how it helped create the accelerated communications, information flow, and vibrant visual culture that characterize our contemporary world.

  • - Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865
    von Mark R. (Associate Professor Wilson
    42,00 €

    Students of the American Civil War will welcome this fresh study of military-industrial production and procurement on the home front-long an obscure topic.

  • von William M. McBride
    54,00 €

    The evolution and persistence of the "battleship navy,he argues, offer direct insight into the dominance of the aircraft-carrier paradigm after 1945 and into the twenty-first century.

  • - "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction
    von Rachel P. (Cornell University) Maines
    37,00 €

    In The Technology of Orgasm, Rachel Maines offers readers a stimulating, surprising, and often humorous account of hysteria and its treatment throughout the ages, focusing on the development, use, and fall into disrepute of the vibrator as a legitimate medical device.

  • von Robert B. Gordon
    59,00 €

    By mastering founding, fining, puddling, or bloom smelting, ironworkers gained a degree of control over their lives not easily attained by others.

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