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. Miller
3. 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 Issues Introduction. Identifying Engineers in History - Irina Gouzevitch and Ian Inkster
1. French Engineers: Between Unity and Heterogeneity - André Grelon
2. 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

About the Author

Ian Inkster is Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK.