Table of Contents

Theory and responsibility in science and technology, A.R. Hall; on the lift pump, M.T. Wright; discoveries, inventions and industrial revolutions - on the varying contributions of technologies and institutions from an international historical perspective, Ian Inkster; James Watt, engineer, R.L. Hills; technological advance in the manufacture of chemicals - the case of cyanide, 1888-1930, Alan L. Lougheed; putting the wind up the pilot - cloud flying with early aircraft instruments John K. Bradley; "seeing is believing" - the development of microwave radar in Britain, summer 1940, Stephen N. Travis; diffusion of brewing technology since 1900 - change and the consumer, Terry Gourvish.

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.