ICON : Volume 9 (2003)

Table of Contents

Title page, Contents, Contributors, Notes for Contributors

I

Ahmad Y. al-Hassan
Gunpowder Composition for Rockets and Cannon in Arabic Military Treaties of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

1

Walter Kaiser
Clean Air Act and American Automobile Industry

31

Frank Uekoetter
The Environmentalists’ Favorite Foe: Electric Power Plants in Germany

44

Ian D. Rae
Mining and Using Arsenic in Australia

62

Reinhold Bauer
An ‘Adapted’ Technology between Policy, Market and Cultural Framework: the Steam Turbine Locomotive as Prime Mover for the Deutsche Reichsbahn

76

Slawomir Lotysz
Alfred Beach Not Alone: the American Patents of Pneumatic Railways in the Nineteenth Century

93

Alfons Gregori i Gomis
Technology and Gender in Spanish Popular Music: Creation and Representation by the Band Mecano

108

Carles Puig-Pla & Antoni Roca-Rosell
A Spanish Project for Submarine Navigation; Narcís Monturiol and the Struggle for Democracy

128

Book Reviews

144

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