Ian Inkster is Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK.

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• EditorialList of Contributors1. Standards, Trust and Civil Discourse: Measuring the Thickness and Quality of Silk, Carlo Poni, University of Bologna2. Technological Transfer between Politics, Markets and Culture: Frame Work Knitting versus Hand Kniting in the Southern Netherlands, 17th to 18th Centuries, Harald Deceular3. A Philosophical Business: Edward Nairne's Electrical Career and the Patent Medical Electrical Machine (1782), Paola Bertucci, University of Bologna4. Innovation or Emulation? Silverware and its Imitations in Britain 1750-1800: The Consumers Point of View, Helen Clifford, Victoria and Albert Museum, London5. Technology and the Labour Process:: A Comparison of British Railway Companies' Approaches to Locomotive Construction Before 1914, D. K. Drummond, University of Leeds6. The Kumaon Iron Works: A Colonial Technology Project, Jan Af Geijerstam7. Learning by the Book: The Problems of Writing Instruction in Manual Skills, Ghillian and Russell Potts8. Civilized Adventure as a Remedy for Nervous Times: Early Automobilism and fin de siecle Culture, Gijs Moms, Technical University Eindhoven9. Chronicle of the Death of a Laboratory: Douglas Engelbart and the Failure of the Knowledge Workshop, Thierry Bardini, University of Montreal and Michael Friedewald, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, KarlsruheContents of former volumes