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Contents Editorial The Contributors Notes for Contributors A Failure to Communicate: The Demise of ELDO Stephen B. Johnson, University of North Dakota Building a Hybrid Landscape to Purify the Ruhr Region, 1890-1935 Edmund N. Todd, University of New Haven The Craft of the Bell Founder: The Chyaryshnikovs, a Russian Bell-Founding Family Tatyana Shashkina, Odessa, Ukraine John Farey and his Treatise on the Steam Engine of 1827 A.P. Woolrich, Bridgewater, Somerset Summer Breeze and Flushing Toilet: Deception and Reality about our Technical Past Michael Fores, London The Establishment of the Society of Chemical Engineers in pre-War Japan Yuji Jido, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege (1777-1855), A German Engineer of Mining and Metallurgy in Portugal and Brazil Friedrich Toussaint, Velbert-Neviges, Germany SYMPOSIUM: THE CURRENT STATE OF THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY IN BRITAIN Introduction Graham Hollister-Short Reflections on the History of Technology in Britain David Edgerton, Imperial College, London The Flourishing History of Technology in the United Kingdom: A Critique of Antiquarian Complaints of 'Neglect' Graeme Gooday, University of Leeds Where is the History of Technology? Rupert Hall, formerly Imperial College, London Reflections on the Decline of the History of Technology in Britain R. Angus Buchanan, University of Bath Some Thoughts on the History of Technology and its Current Condition in Britain H.S. Torrens, Keele University Pursuing Big Books: Technological Change in Global History Ian Inkster, Nottingham Trent University History of Technology in German. A Success Story? Hans-Joachim Braun, Universitat der Bundeswehr Hamburg Contents of Former Volumes

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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.

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