Synopses & Reviews
<div><br/><div>The technical problems confronting different societies and periods and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. It deals with the history of technical discovery and change and explores the relationship of technology to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic - and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred. </div><br/><div> </div><br/><div>Volume 27 includes a special issue on The Professional Identity of Engineers:Historical and Contemporary Issues.</div></div>>
Synopsis
The technical problems confronting different societies and periods and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. It deals with the history of technical discovery and change and explores the relationship of technology to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic - and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.
Volume 27 includes a special issue on The Professional Identity of Engineers: Historical and Contemporary Issues.
Synopsis
An examination of the literary and theological dynamics of the divine-human encounter as reflected in theophany narratives in the Hebrew Bible. The point of departure for this study is a type-scene analysis which reveals a common structure to theophany narratives. Beginning with the separation of the protagonist from human society, the text moves to a visual and verbal revelation by the Deity, and records a range of human reactions to the experience. Each of the texts concludes with a description of a more externalized reaction, which marks the carrying over of the experience into a larger societal framework. The analysis develops the underlying structural and contentual similarity among texts which have traditionally been understood as belonging to different literary genres. The discussion offers a nuanced treatment of the range of literary strategies employed by the narrative for addressing these elements.In addition to a detailed analysis of each of the above components of the type-scene, there is discussion of issues such as the idea of the lethal nature of the encounter and intertextual relations between the narratives.
Synopsis
<div><br/><div>The technical problems confronting different societies and periods and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. It deals with the history of technical discovery and change and explores the relationship of technology to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic - and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred. </div><br/><div> </div><br/><div>Volume 27 includes a special issue on The Professional Identity of Engineers:Historical and Contemporary Issues.</div></div>>
Table of Contents
1.The diffusion and transmission of the rotary-fan winnowing machine from China to Europe: New findings and new questions - Hans Ulrich Vogel 2. Watt in Court: Specifying Steam Engines and Classifying Engineers in the Patent Trials of the 1790s - David P. Miller3. Business and geopolitics in the international transfer of technology: The Spanish submanrine cables 1849-1930 -Ángel Calvo
Special Issue: The Professional Identity of Engineers. Historical and Contemporary IssuesIntroduction. Identifying Engineers in History - Irina Gouzevitch and Ian Inkster1. French Engineers: Between Unity and Heterogeneity - André Grelon2. Industrial Engineering in Spain in the first half of the XX Century: from renewal to crisis - Antoni Roca Rosell, Guillermo Lusa-Monforte, Francaesc Barca-Salomon, Carles Puig-Pla 3. Being an Engineer in the European Periphery. Three Case Studies on Portuguese Engineering - Maria Paula Diogo and Ana Cardoso de Matos