History of Technology Volume 32

This volume provide an overview of current research in the history of Italian technology in the long run from the early Middle Ages to the 20th century. The contributors focus on different aspects of Italian creativity in a local transnational and global dimension tracing the trajectory from primacy to relative decline. The themes range from the creation and establishment of new technologies in laboratories or enterprises the processes of learning diffusion and copying and the institutions involved in the generation of a national technological capability and innovation system. Comparative studies are included in order to illustrate special features of the Italian case. The industries covered in this volume range from silk iron and steel production to electricity generation and telecommunications.<br/><br/><b>Special Issue: Italian Technology from the Renaissance to the 20th Century<br/>Edited by Anna Guagnini and Luca Mola</b><br/><br/>Included in this volume: <br/>Inventors Patents and the Market for Innovations in Renaissance Italy<br/>The Microcosm: Technological Innovation and the Transfer of Mechanical Knowledge in the Habsburg Empire of the Sixteenth century<br/>Diamonds in Early Modern Venice: Technology Products and International Competition<br/>A Global Supremacy. The Worldwide Hegemony of the Piedmontese Reeling Technologies 1720s-1830s<br/>Raw Materials Transmission of Know-How and Ceramic Techniques in Early Modern Italy: a Mediterranean perspective<br/>Anabaptist Migration and the Diffusion of the Maiolica from Faenza to Central Europe <br/>A Bold Leap into Electric Light. The Creation of the Società Italiana Edison 1880-1886<br/>Keeping Abreast with the Technology of Science. The Economic Life of the Physics Laboratory at the University of Padua 1847-1857<br/>Mechanics Made in Italy Innovation and Expertise Evolution. A Case Study from the Packaging Industry 1960-98<br/>Telecommunications Italian Style. The shaping of the constitutive choices (1850-1914)<br/>Beyond the Myth of the Self-taught Inventor. The Learning Process and Formative Years of Young Guglielmo Marconi <br/>Technology Transfer Economic Strategies and Politics in the Building of the First Italian Submarine Telegraph <br/>Lights and Shades: Italian Innovation Across the Centuries<br/>European Steel vs Chinese Cast-iron: From Technological Change to Social and Political Choices (4th Century BC-18th Century AD)<br/>The Italian National Innovation System. A Long Term Perspective 1861-2011