An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 5 docx

An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 108 pptx

An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 108 pptx

... 380 ‘railway mania’ 56 7 railways 35 6, 164, 55 5–608 American 57 2–4, 57 9–80, 58 9–90, 59 3–4, 59 8 atmospheric 57 0–71 automatic train control 602–603 brakes 58 0–81 British 59 0, 59 1, 59 3, 59 4, 59 9–601 British ... Empire 58 8–9, 59 1 central- rail system 58 3 Chinese 57 7, 6 05 coaches 56 2–3, 57 4, 57 9 construction mechanization 470 couplings 56 3 electricfica...
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An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 1 potx

An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 1 potx

... 489 Germany 494 The Rhine 499 Italy 50 0 Greece 50 1 Sweden 50 1 The Soviet Union 50 2 Eastern Europe 50 4 Spain and Portugal 50 5 The Suez Canal 50 5 Japan 50 6 Canada 50 6 The United States 50 9 The Panama ... 329 CONTENTS ix Anchors and cables 54 0 Lights and buoys 54 1 Navigation 54 3 Charts and sailing directions 54 6 Ports and harbours 54 7 Shipbuilding and dock...
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An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 2 doc

An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 2 doc

... 651 Manned spaceflight and the space race 652 Satellite technology 656 Probes to the moon 658 Probes to the planets 659 Launch vehicles 661 PART FOUR: COMMUNICATION AND CALCULATION 663 14. Language, ... how they fought their wars and which side won, was largely dependent on the state of their technology and that of their enemy. Their motivation was more often than not e...
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An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 3 docx

An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 3 docx

... practice, and this is the first step in the process of moving forward to a new solution. Thus the history of technology and the history of invention are very much the same. Why study the history of technology? ... who studied, rather than the rise and fall of civilizations, the rise and fall of technologies the technologies of hunting and weapon-making,...
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An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 4 pps

An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 4 pps

... one of the causes of the decline of the Roman Empire. The Dark Ages The last Roman troops left Britain in AD 436 and all contact between Britain and Rome had ended by 450 . To a great extent the ... numbers of slaves, there was a demand for such mechanization as was available and the successors of the Romans continued to build water mills. At the time of the Do...
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An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 5 docx

An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 5 docx

... for measuring the bores of cannon and the diameter of cannon balls. The crank An important development in the Middle Ages was that of mechanisms for the interconversion of rotary and reciprocating ... weight. All the gears were of brass. Galileo’s observations of the swinging altar lamp in the cathedral of Pisa marked the start of the use of the pendu...
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An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 6 docx

An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 6 docx

... she darted in and out of the lines of ponderous warships. The following year the Admiralty ordered a 55 .5kph (30 knot) turbine-driven destroyer from Parsons. In another three years the first turbined ... launched and, by 1907, this was followed by the 52 MW (70,000hp) 39,000 tonne liner, the Mauretania. The steam turbine and reduction gearing was well and truly launched o...
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An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 7 pdf

An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 7 pdf

... after the arrival of the Spanish invaders by the North American Indian: Giovanni Verazzano, who visited the Atlantic Coast in 152 4, commented upon the vast quantities of copper owned by the Indians, ... ridiculous and to many others a threat to the dignity of themselves as members of the human race or worse, a threat to the very existence of humanity as the only...
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An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 8 ppt

An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 8 ppt

... Tepe Giyan, in the Persian highlands, during the 4th millennium, and subsequently moved southwards to Sumeria and the Persian Gulf, and westwards to the Mediterranean seaboard, during the third ... came from the Caucasus and were instrumental in transferring the arts of metallurgy from the land of Elam (which now forms part of Iran) into Babylonia. The first Sumerian...
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An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 9 doc

An Encyclopedia of the History of Technology part 9 doc

... to the wall thickness of the casting to be produced. The wall thickness of the San Marco horses varies between 7 .5 and 10.5mm, and originally they were gilded. From the duplex structure of the ... fourth-millennium sites of Anan and Hissar III in Iran and Naqada in Egypt. The earliest evidence of lead being used for aesthetic rather than practical purposes is provide...
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