Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology
Subtitle: papers 1 to 11.
Series: United States National Museum. Bulletin -- 218; Bulletin (United States National Museum) -- 218.
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Published: 1959
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Technology -- History; Science -- History
Table of contents: title: 1. The scholfield wool-carding machines / Grace L. Rogers; title: 2. John Deere's steel plow / Edward C. Kendall; title: 3. The beginnings of cheap steel / Philip W. Bishop; title: 4. The auburndale watch company / Edwin A. Battison; title: 5. Development of the phonograph at Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory / Leslie J. Newville; title: 6. On the origin of clockwork, perpetual motion devices, and the compass / Derek J. de Solla Price; title: 7. Mine pumping on Agricola's time and later / Robert P. Multhauf; title: 8. The natural philosophy of William Gilbert and his predecessors / W. James King; title: 9. Conestoga wagons in Braddock's campaign, 1755 / Donald H. Berkebile; title: 10. Old English patent medicines in America / George B. Griffenhagen and James Harvey Young; title: 11. Why Bewick succeeded : a note on the history of wood engraving / Jacob Kainen.