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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 - and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred. >
List of contents
Editorial; The Contributors; Notes for Contributors
Making things from New Ideas; Howard Dawes and Christopher Dawes in collaboration with Gerry Martin and Alan Macfarlane
The Twenty-One Books of Engines and Machines Attributed to Pedro Juan de Lastanosa; Nicolas García Tapia
Richard Robert's Contributions to Production Engineering; R.L Hills
Promoting British Aviation in 1950s Cinema; Michael Paris
Special Issue: Engineering Disasters
1 Introduction; R. Angus Buchanan
2 Maritime Disasters and the Law; David K. Brown
3 Suspension Bridges; Derek Portman
5 The Causes of the Great Sheffield Flood of 1864; R. Angus Buchanan
6 Semiconductor Manufacturing and the Chemical Contamination within Silicon Valley; P.R. Morris
7 Gunpowder, A Capricious and Unmerciful Thing; Brenda J. Buchanan
8 Engineering Disasters - Thoughts of a Factory Inspector; John H. Boyes
9 Fatigue as a Factor in Aeronautical Disasters; Peter Stokes
10 Design Compromises in the Space Shuttle; David Ashford 11 Past and Future Bridge Failures; Henry Petroski
