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White, John Henry: 



1932: History of the phlogiston theory ( 192 p., London; Isis 19, 593). 

 See the Critical Bibliographies of Isis, section 25. Chemistry. 



TECHNOLOGY, "INVENTIONS " 



Beckmann, Johann (1739-1811): 



1797-180?: History of inventions and discoveries (4 vols., London). — Second 

 ed., 4 vols., 1814; Srd ed., 4 vols., 1817; 4th ed., 2 vols., 1846.— German original, 

 Beitrage zur Geschichte der Erfindungen (5 vols., Leipzig 1780, 1786-1805). 



Cressy, Edward: 



1937: A hundred years of mechanical engineering (340 p., 64 pi.. New York; 

 Isis 31, 94-95). 



Ducasse, Pierre: 



1945: Histoire des techniques (136 p., Paris; Isis 36, 228). 



Feldhaus, Franz Maria (1874- ): 



1910: Ruhmesblatter der Technik von den Urfindungen bis zur Gegenwart 

 (639 p., 232 fig., Leipzig). 



1914: Die Technik der Vorzeit, der geschichthchen Zeit und der Naturvolker. 

 (xvi p., 1400 col., 873 ill., Leipzig). 



1931: Die Technik der Antike und des Mittelalters (442 p., 452 ill., 15 pi., Pots- 

 dam; Isis 16, 167-69). 



Fleming, Arthur Percy Morris; Brocklehurst, Harold John Stanley: 



1925: History of engineering (320 p., London). 



Forbes, Robert James: 



1950: Man the maker. History of technology and engineering (376 p., ill.. New 

 York; Isis 42, 79), 



Gilfillan, Seabury Columba ( 1889- ) : 



1935: Inventing the ship. Study of the inventions made in her history be- 

 tween floating log and rotorship (294 p., 80 fig., Chicago; Isis 24, 450-53). 



1935: The sociology of invention (204 p., Chicago; Isis 25, 166-67), 



Kaempffert, Waldemar (1877- ): 



1924: Popular history of American inventions (2 vols.. New York). 



Karmarsch, Karl: 



1872: Geschichte der Technologic seit der Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts (940 p., 

 Munich ) . 



Knight, Edward Henry (1824-83): 



1874-77: American mechanical dictionary. A description of tools, instruments, 

 machines, processes and engineering; history of inventions, general technological 

 vocabulary (3 vols., 2831 p., 7000 ill.. New York). 



1882-84: New Mechanical dictionary. A supplement to the former work (1 vol. 

 in 4 parts, 968 p., 2549 ill., 56 pi., Boston). 



These almost forgotten volumes contain an immense amount of valuable informa- 

 tion. The author was a patent attorney of EngUsh birth (DAB 10, 464). 



Kraemer, Hans (1870- ) (editor): 



1902-04: Weltall und Menschheit. Geschichte der Erforschung der Natur und 

 der Verwertung der Naturkrafte im Dienste der Volker (5 vols., Berlin), 



Mason, Otis Tufton (1838-1908): 



1895: The origins of invention, A study of industry among primitive peoples 

 (419 p., ill., London). 



