Cyril Stanley Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785217 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cyril Stanley Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cyril Stanley |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH C S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 72 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 72 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1943 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
"In the Matter of "in the Matter of ‘This’
The criterion of ?relevance? in the support of research in the social sciences: 1965?1985
The Tiling Patterns of Sebastien Truchet and the Topology of Structural Hierarchy
Cyril Stanley Smith, Pauline Boucher, The Tiling Patterns of Sebastien Truchet and the Topology of Structural Hierarchy, Leonardo, Vol. 20, No. 4, 20th Anniversary Special Issue: Art of the Future: The Future of Art (1987), pp. 373-385
Islamic Metalwork in the Freer Gallery of Art . Esin Atil , W. T. Chase , Paul Jett
A Matter of Form The Scientific Reinterpretation of Form . Norma E. Emerton
Kodo Zuroku: Illustrated Book on the Smelting of Copper
Theodore Allen Wertime (1919-1982)
Memorials THEODORE ALLEN WERTIME (1919-1982) CYRIL STANLEY SMITH Ted Wertime was trained as a historian and spent most of his professional life as an official of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Information Agency. He had an uncanny knack for understand ing technology and a deep appreciation of the way in which social and intellectual change often has its roots in some simple workshop discov ery that develops into a transmittable, valu…
Transmitted deprivation: The kite that failed
Persian Metal Technology, 790 to 1300 A.D. James W. Allan Aspects of Ancient Indian Technology: A Research Based on Scientific Methods . H. C. Bhardwaj
From Art to Science: Seventy-Two Objects Illustrating the Nature of Discovery
A Search for Structure: Selected Essays on Science, Art, and History
The World of the Javanese Keris
Leonardo: The First Decade
Roy Ascott, Claude Berge, Naomi Boretz, Donald Brook, Nino Calos, Elmer H. Duncan, John Fisher, Herbert W. Franke, John H. Halas, Thomas T. Ichinose, Otto Klineberg, Pauline Bentley Koffler, , Robert Preusser, Harry Rand, Bryan Rogers, M. Sabri, Allan Shields, Cyril Stanley Smith, Kirill Sokolov, Etienne Souriau, Israel Traub, Rhoda Traub, Leonardo: The First Decade, Leonardo, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Summer, 1978), pp. 260-264
Metallurgical Remains of Ancient China by Noel Bernard, Tamotsu Satō, and: The Cradle of the East: An Enquiry into the Indigenous Origins of Techniques and Ideas of Neolithic and Early Historic China,…
Book Reviews Metallurgical Remains ofAncient China. By Noel Bernard and Tamotsu Sato. Tokyo: Nichiohsha, 1975. $99.50. The Cradle ofthe East: An Enquiry into the Indigenous Origins ofTechniques and Ideas of Neolithic and Early Historic China, 5000-1000 B.C. By Ping-Ti Ho. Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong; and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975. Pp. xxii+440. $20.00. These two books are both concerned with the beginnings of tech…
Mappae Clavicula: A Little Key to the World of Medieval Techniques
Metallurgical Remains of Ancient China
Officina Ferraria: A Polish Poem of 1612 Describing the Noble Craft of Ironwork
On Art, Invention, and Technology
Eighteenth Century Gunfounding. The Verbruggens at the Royal Brass Foundry. A Chapter in the History of Technology
Some Speculations on the Corrosion of Ancient Metals
O stali Damascenskiej (About Damascus Steel)
Mappae Clavicula: A Little Key to the World of Medieval Techniques
A Seventeenth-Century Octonary Arithmetic
Mining Lore: An Illustrated Composition and Documentary Compilation with Emphasis on the Spirit and History of Mining
The Employment of Sociologists in Research Occupations in Britain in 1973
The Sociological profession in Britain has changed in fundamental ways over the last decade. This note draws attention to the rapid growth of research occupations and describes the sources and location of this expansion. Most of the recent growth has come from direct financing by central government departments. The note discusses some of the implications of this development for careers, training, and the content of the discipline. It explores som…
Leisure and Society in Britain
Mappae Clavicula: A Little Key to the World of Medieval Techniques
The Employment of Sociologists in Research Occupations in Britain in 1973
The Sociological profession in Britain has changed in fundamental ways over the last decade. This note draws attention to the rapid growth of research occupations and describes the sources and location of this expansion. Most of the recent growth has come from direct financing by central government departments. The note discusses some of the implications of this development for careers, training, and the content of the discipline. It explores som…
On Art, Invention, and Technology
Art, Technology, and Science: Notes on Their Historical Interaction
The Discovery of Carbon in Steel
from about 2800 B. C. Iron did not, however, become important until methods of relatively large-scale production had been developed, supposedly by the Hittites, and it did not challenge the superiority of bronze (save in the important economic aspect of its availability) until smiths had found how to convert soft iron into that magnificent material, steel, which can be relatively easily worked to shape and metamorphosized by a final heat treatmen…
The Interaction of Science and Practice in the History of Metallurgy
A QUICK LOOK at metallurgy might suggest that its development owed very little to science. An immense and important body of knowledge on the useful alloys had been discovered long before anything approaching modern science existed, and even today the theoretical metallurgist is principally engaged in explaining phenomena that have been known for over 4000 years. Moreover, a majority of workers in metal have unthinkingly followed traditional metho…
The Pirotechnia
Metallographic Examination of a Sample of Metallic Zinc from Ancient Athens
Man the Maker. A History of Technology and Engineering . R. J. Forbes
Metallurgy in Antiquity. A Notebook for Archaeologists and Technologists . R. J. Forbes
The Henry Wood Proms Circle
A Sixteenth-Century Decimal System of Weights
Elizabethan Copper. The History of the Company of Mines Royal, 1568-1605 . M. B. Donald
A History of Technology. Volume II, The Mediterranean Civilizations and the Middle Ages, c. 700 B.C. to c. A.D. 1500 . Charles Singer , E. J. Holmyard , A. R. Hall , Trevor I. Williams , E. Jaffé , Na…
Methods of Making Chain Mail (14th to 18th Centuries): A Metallographic Note
METALLOGRAPHY PROVIDES a useful adjunct to historical or archaeological studies. A great deal can be learned from the microstructure of a metallic object about the techniques used in making and treating it. An example is provided by the use of such a method on links of chain mail armor, the manufacture of which has been discussed by Burges' and Burgess.2 Both authors believe that riveted links were made by coiling drawn wire round an appropriate …
Reason and Chance in Scientific Discovery . R. Taton , A. J. Pomerans
A History of Technology. Vol. V. The Late Nineteenth Century, c. 1850-c. 1900 . Charles Singer , E. J. Holmyard , A. R. Hall , Trevor I. Williams
Reply to Mr. Martin Burgess on Nail-Making Methods
The Relation between Smoking Habits and Physique, Respiratory Symptoms, Ventilatory Function, and Radiological Pneumoconiosis amongst Coal Workers at Three Scottish Collieries
Smoking has for some time been strongly sus- pected of being a major aetiological factor in chronic bronchitis. Confirmatory evidence has accrued from many epidemiological studies involving widely different populations. Abbott, Hopkins, Van Fleit, and Robinson (1953) found that, in 294 hospital patients with emphysema and cough, tobacco smoking could be incriminated as an aetiological factor in about two-thirds of the cases, and Palmer (1954) con…
Iron and Steel in 1627: The "Fidelle Ouverture de l'Art de Serrurier" of Mathurin Jousse
A History of Metals
A History of Metallography: The Development of Ideas on the Structure of Metals before 1890
Cyril Smith's study of the structure of metals and alloys and the properties that result from their processing remains, after more than two decades, a foundational work on the history of metallography. It starts from the intuitive knowledge of metals achieved by such early artists and craftsmen as Biringuccio, Descartes, Raumur, Brant, Osmond, Sorby, Brinell, Tschernoff, Howe, Percy and others, and then describes the evolution of the modern scien…
The Interaction of Science and Practice in the History of Metallurgy
A QUICK LOOK at metallurgy might suggest that its development owed very little to science. An immense and important body of knowledge on the useful alloys had been discovered long before anything approaching modern science existed, and even today the theoretical metallurgist is principally engaged in explaining phenomena that have been known for over 4000 years. Moreover, a majority of workers in metal have unthinkingly followed traditional metho…
Bronze Casting and Bronze Alloys in Ancient China
A History of Platinum
The Discovery of Carbon in Steel
from about 2800 B. C. Iron did not, however, become important until methods of relatively large-scale production had been developed, supposedly by the Hittites, and it did not challenge the superiority of bronze (save in the important economic aspect of its availability) until smiths had found how to convert soft iron into that magnificent material, steel, which can be relatively easily worked to shape and metamorphosized by a final heat treatmen…
Scientific Change: Historical Studies in the Intellectual, Social and Technical Conditions for Scientific Discovery and Technical Invention, from Antiquity to the Present
The Coming of the Age of Steel
Granulating Iron in Filarete's Smelter
Historians of metallurgy will be greatly indebted to Professor Spencer for his excellent translation of Filarete's interesting treatise. There are a number of points which seem to differ from later European practice, and these particularly should be searched for hints as to the conditions surrounding the beginning of cast iron production in Europe. Professor Spencer and others have assumed that Filarete's description of the water-pit is a garbled…
A Speculation on the Origin of Fahrenheit's Temperature Scale
Analysis of Ancient Metals
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