In this Issue

Table of Contents

James Watt and the Law of Patents

Eric Robinson
pp. 115-139
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The Page Locomotive: Federal Sponsorship of Invention in Mid-19th-Century America

Robert C. Post
pp. 140-169
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The Development of the Semiautomatic Freight-Car Coupler, 1863–1893

Charles H. Clark
pp. 170-208
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The Sinking of the Ma Robert : An Excursion into Mid-19th-Century Steelmaking

J. Gordon Parr
pp. 209-225
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Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (1970)

Jack Goodwin
pp. 226-294
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The Myth of the Machine: The Pentagon of Power by Lewis Mumford (review)

Robert P. Multhauf
pp. 295-299
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The Bronze Age Cultures in Central and Eastern Europe by Marija Gimbutas (review)

Ralph M. Rowlett
pp. 299-301
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The Sublimations of Leonardo da Vinci with a Translation of the Codex Trivulzianus by Raymond S. Stites (review)

Augusto Marinoni
pp. 301-309
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Kulturelle Beziehungen zwischen Nurnberg und den Deutschen im Südosten im 14. bis 16. Jahrhundert by Ute Monika Schwob (review)

Bert S. Hall
pp. 309-310
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Enserfment and Military Change in Muscovy by Richard Hellie (review)

Thomas Esper
pp. 310-312
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Non-ferrous Metals Casting, History and Forecast by Jerzy W. Meier (review)

J. Gordon Parr
p. 312
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The Anatomy of a Scientific Institution: The Paris Academy of Sciences, 1666–1803 by Roger Hahn (review)

J. Morton Briggs Jr.
pp. 312-314
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Henry Maudslay, Machine Builder by K. R. Gilbert (review)

Robert S. Woodbury
p. 314
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From Watts to Clausius: The Rise of Thermodynamics in the Early Industrial Age by Donald S. L. Cardwell (review)

Edward E. Daub
p. 315
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The Locomotives Built by Machinefabriek “Breda” by A. D. de Pater (review)

John H. White Jr.
pp. 315-316
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The Shay Locomotive, Titan of the Timber by Michael Koch (review)

John H. White
pp. 316-318
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The Making of a Railway by L. T. C. Rolt (review)

Robert E. Carlson
p. 318
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The Depletion Myth: A History of Railroad Use of Timber by Sherry H. Olson (review)

G. Terry Sharrer
p. 319
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Prints in and of America to 1850 ed. by John D. Morse (review)

Alan Fern
pp. 319-321
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Stevens Pistols and Pocket Rifles by Kenneth L. Cope, and: American Percussion Revolvers by Frank M. Sellers, Samuel E. Smith (review)

W. H. J. Chamberlain
pp. 321-324
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1972.a893481
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The American Car since 1775 by the Editors of Automobile Quarterly (review)

James J. Flink
pp. 325-326
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Elmer Sperry: Inventor and Engineer by Thomas Parke Hughes (review)

George H. Daniels
pp. 326-328
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Science in Russian Culture, 1861–1917 by Alexander Vucinich (review)

Cyril E. Black
pp. 328-330
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India’s Green Revolution: Economic Gains and Political Costs by Francine R. Frankel (review)

Dana G. Dalrymple
pp. 330-331
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Science and the Future of Man ed. by Robert L. Carovillano, James W. Skehan, S.J. (review)

Irene Taviss
pp. 331-332
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Science, Scientists, and Public Policy by Dean Schooler, Jr (review)

Norman Kaplan
pp. 332-333
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The American Health Empire by Barbara, John Ehrenreich (review)

Walter E. Gross
pp. 333-335
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Historic Towns: Maps and Plans of Towns and Cities in the British Isles with Historical Commentaries, from Earliest Times to circa 1800 ed. by M. D. Lobel (review)

Peter Green
pp. 335-336
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The Metropolitan Economy: The Process of Employment Expansion by Thomas M. Stanback, Jr., Richard V. Knight (review)

Douglas Montgomery
pp. 337-338
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Goals and Means in the Conquest of Space by R. G. Perel’man (review)

Loyd S. Swenson Jr.
pp. 338-340
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1972.a893491
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A Discovery of Cinema by Thorold Dickinson (review)

Louis D. Giannetti
pp. 340-343
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The One Culture by William H. Davenport (review)

Samuel C. Florman
pp. 343-344
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Beiträge zur Technikgeschichte Tirols ed. by Ernst Attlmayr (review)

Ulrich Troitzsch
pp. 344-345
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Announcements

pp. 346-351
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1972.a893495
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