Table of Contents:
“…Cover; Copyright; CONTENTS; Introduction by Robert Bud; Byzantine Sundial-Calendar,
c. 520; Islamic Glass Alembic,
c. 1100; The Giustiniani Medicine Chest,
c. 1566; The Standards of the Realm, 1495-1601; Slide Rule by Robert Bissaker, 1654; Napier's Bones,
c. 1690; Hauksbee's Air Pump,
c. 1709; The Original Orrery,
c. 1712; Sisson's Rule,
c. 1742; Shelton's Astronomical Regulator,
c. 1768; Arkwright's Spinning Machine, 1769; Troughton's Dividing Engine, 1778; Herschel's Seven-Foot Telescope,
c. 1781; Boulton and
Watt Rotative Engine, 1788; Symington's Marine Engine, 1788.…”
Call Number: T173.8 .M535 2013
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