Table of Contents

Alexander Graham Bell, Elisha Gray and the speaking telegraph - a cognitive comparison, Michael E. Gorman, Matthew M. Mehalik, et al; on the origins of the suction lift pump, Graham Hollister-Short; technological aspirations and the motivation of natural philosophy in seventeenth century England, Alex Keller; count Theodore Batthyany's paddle-wheel ship, Walter Endrei; the kongsberg silver mines and the Norwegian mining museum, Bjorn Ivar Berg; does the development of mobility in traffic follow a pattern?, Hermann Knoflacher; the Greeks and the early windmill; Michael J.T. Lewis; faraday re-invented - moral imagery and institutional icons in victorian electrical engineering.

About the Author

Graham Hollister-Short is an Honorary Lecturer in the History of Technology at Imperial College, London, and a member of the academic staff of the London Centre for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology, University of London.

Frank A.J.L James, Professor of History of Science, The Royal Institution of Great Britain.