History of Technology - History of Technology Volume 25

Ian Inkster

• 30 september 2016
• 9781350019027

Samenvatting:

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 - showing how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.