Technical standards have received increasing attention in recent years from historians of science and technology, management theorists and economists. Often, inquiry focuses on the emergence of stabil
This is a special issue of the History of Technology series focusing on issues of cross-national technology transfer, specifically with regards to the case of Spain. Sixteen essays are presented under
The 11 essays in this collection were initially published between 1973 and 1990. Four essays discuss Sheffield, illustrating its industrial and technical associations and achievements, the widening ci
New work on early modern Europe has now opened up the hidden avenues that link changes of technologies with a complex of cognitive, institutional, spatial and cultural elements. It is true that all
While political and social historians have made great progress in trying to understand the making of modern Greece by studying the politics and power struggles, little attention has been given in the
This volume provide an overview of current research in the history of Italian technology in the long run, from the early Middle Ages to the 20th century. The contributors focus on different aspects o
