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.

"Highly recommended and should certainly be on the shelves of all universities, colleges and engineering institutions."--Newcomen Bulletin

• A failure to communicate - the demise of ELDO; building a hybrid landscape to purify the Ruhr region, 1890-1935; the craft of the bell founder - the Chyaryshnikovs, a Russian bell-founding family; John Farey and his "Treatise on the Steam Engine" of 1827; summer breeze and flushing toilet - deception and reality about our technical past; the establishment of the Society of Chemical Engineers in pre-War Japan; Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege (1777-1855) - a German engineer of mining and metallurgy in Portugal and Brazil. Symposium - the current state of the history of technology in Britain: Reflections on the history of technology in the United kingdom - a critique of antiquarian complaints of "neglect"; where is the history of technology?; reflections on the decline of the history of technology in Britain; some thoughts on the history of technology and its current condition in Britain; pursuing big books - technological change in global history; history of technology in German - a success story?; content of former volumes.