History of Technology Volume 21

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.

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• EditorialThe ContributorsNotes for ContributorsResponding to the Nineteenth Century: The Royal Navy and the Introduction of the Screw Propeller, Andrew D. LambertThe Emergence of Technical Drawing in China: The Xin Yi Xian Fa Yao and its Antecedents, Peter J. GolasThe Circular Silk Mill: A Factory Before the Industrial Revolution in Early Modern Europe, Carlo PoniTechnology Transfer in the Great Climacteric: Machinofacture and International Patenting in World Development circa 1850-1914, Ian Inkster What Drives Innovation in Technology? Walter Kaiser The Industrialization of Chair and Table Manufacture in Japan: Subtle Interactions at the Confluence of Indigenous Culture and Western Technology, Tatsuya KobayashiMetals and Metallurgical Processes in North Italy in Biringuccio’s Work, Raffaello Vergani Maîtrise et Transmission des Connaissances Techniques au Moyen Âge (English Summary by Graham Hollister-Short), Philippe Braunstein Current Research in the History of Technology in Europe, Hans-Joachim Braun Nieuports and Spads: French Pursuit Planes and American Airpower in World War I, Bert L. Frandsen and W. David Lewis The Power of Ceremony: Creating an International Engineering Community, Bruce Sinclair Contents of Former Volumes