Contributions from the museum of history and technology.
Subtitle: Papers 34-44 on science and technology.
Series: Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Bulletin -- 240; Bulletin (United States National Museum) -- 240.
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Published: 1966
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Technology -- History; Science -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 34. The 1893 Duryea automobile / Don H. Berkebile; title: 35. The Borghesi astronomical clock / Silvio A. Bedini; title: 36. The engineering contributions of Wendel Bollman / Robert M. Vogel; title: 37. Screw-thread cutting by the master screw method since 1480 / Edwin A. Battison; title: 38. The earliest electromagnetic instruments / Robert A. Chipman; title: 39. Fulton's "steam battery" : blockship and catamaran / Howard I. Chapelle; title: 40. History of phosphorus / Eduard Farber; title: 41. Tunnel engineering : a museum treatment / Robert M. Vogel; title: 42. The "pioneer" : light passenger locomotive of 1851 / John H. White; title: 43. History of the Division of Medical Sciences / Sami Hamarneh; title: 44. Development of gravity pendulums in the 19th century / Victor F. Lenzen and Robert P. Multhauf.