Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology
Subtitle: papers 19-30 on science and technology.
Contributors: Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)
Series: Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Bulletin -- 228
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Published: 1963
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
Subjects: Technology -- History.; Science -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: 19. Elevator systems of the Eiffel Tower 1889 / Robert M. Vogel; value: 20. John Ericsson and the age of caloric / Eugene S. Ferguson; value: 21. The pioneer steamship Savannah : a study for a scale model / Howard I. Chapelle; value: 22. Drawings and pharmacy in al-Zahrawi's 10th-century surgical treatise / Sami Hamarneh; value: 23. The introduction of self-registering meteorological instruments / Robert P. Multhauf; value: 24. Introduction of the locomotive safety truck / John H. White; value: 25. The migrations of an American boat type / Howard I. Chapelle.; value: 26. Holcomb, Fitz, and Peate : three 19th-century American telescope makers; value: 27. Kinematics of mechanisms from the time of Watt / Eugene S. Ferguson; value: 28. The development of electrical technology in the 19th century : the electrochemical cell and the electromagnet / W. James King; value: 29. The development of electrical technology in the 19th century : the telegraph and the telephone / W. James King; value: 30. The development of electrical technology in the 19th century : the early arc light and generator / W. James King.