Marjorie Nice Boyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3945386 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marjorie Nice Boyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marjorie Nice |
| FAMILY NAME | Boyer |
| SIGNATURE | BOYER M N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brooklyn College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1951 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Building Construction before Mechanization by John Fitchen
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 677 this case most of the social history is lacking. On the other hand, the clear value that the author has gained from his urban perspective may stimulate other scholars to look more closely at social, economic, and—especially—demographic history. Indeed, it is a disappointment in this second volume, in contrast to the first, to find so little com parative material in the all but minimal notes. A more technol…
Building Construction before Mechanization
In this intriguing book John Fitchen explains and illustrates the solutions to these and many other puzzles in preindustrial building construction
Harvesting the Air: Windmill Pioneers in Twelfth-Century England . Edward J. Kealey
The Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Meeting, October 23-26, 1986
Organizational Notes THE PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, MEETING, OCTOBER 23—26, 1986 More than 275 people attended the twenty-ninth annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) at the Pittsburgh Hilton, October 23—26, 1986. The meeting was held simultaneously with those of the History of Science Society (HSS), the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA), and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S); total attendance at Pitt…
Resistance to Technological Innovation: The History of the Pile Driver through the 18th Century
Pilgrimage to Canterbury . Howard Loxton
Medieval French Bridges: A History
On the Bridges of Mediaeval Paris . Virginia Wylie Egbert
Recherches sur la banlieue de Besançon au Moyen Age . Roland Fiétier
Rebuilding the Bridge at Albi, 1408-1410
Status and Travel Stipends in Fourteenth-Century France
The Bridgebuilding Brotherhoods
Pierre Joseph de Haitze, historien
Travel Allowances in Fourteenth-Century France
Historians of medieval prices have relied very heavily on grain prices, which are abundant and easily available. In France, for example, there is an impressive run of biweekly figures from the grain market at Albi. A different category of data, that has not received much attention, concerns the cost of travel in fourteenth-century France
Medieval Pivoted Axles
ONE WHO PUSHES a baby carriage will be struck with the difficulty of making turns on all four wheels; and if he has tried to pull it, he has found it a problem to keep it going where he wishes it to go. The trouble is that the baby carriage has not benefited from a very ancient invention-the pivoted axle or turning train. Fourwheeled vehicles with the pivoted front axle came in at least by the time of the Hallstatt iron age in the second milleniu…
Mediaeval Suspended Carriages
A Day's Journey in Mediaeval France
The Bridgebuilding Brotherhoods
A Day's Journey in Mediaeval France
Medieval Pivoted Axles
ONE WHO PUSHES a baby carriage will be struck with the difficulty of making turns on all four wheels; and if he has tried to pull it, he has found it a problem to keep it going where he wishes it to go. The trouble is that the baby carriage has not benefited from a very ancient invention-the pivoted axle or turning train. Fourwheeled vehicles with the pivoted front axle came in at least by the time of the Hallstatt iron age in the second milleniu…
Status and Travel Stipends in Fourteenth-Century France
Pierre Joseph de Haitze, historien
A Day's Journey in Mediaeval France
Mediaeval Suspended Carriages
Medieval Pivoted Axles
ONE WHO PUSHES a baby carriage will be struck with the difficulty of making turns on all four wheels; and if he has tried to pull it, he has found it a problem to keep it going where he wishes it to go. The trouble is that the baby carriage has not benefited from a very ancient invention-the pivoted axle or turning train. Fourwheeled vehicles with the pivoted front axle came in at least by the time of the Hallstatt iron age in the second milleniu…
Travel Allowances in Fourteenth-Century France
Historians of medieval prices have relied very heavily on grain prices, which are abundant and easily available. In France, for example, there is an impressive run of biweekly figures from the grain market at Albi. A different category of data, that has not received much attention, concerns the cost of travel in fourteenth-century France
Status and Travel Stipends in Fourteenth-Century France
The Bridgebuilding Brotherhoods
Pierre Joseph de Haitze, historien
Rebuilding the Bridge at Albi, 1408-1410
Recherches sur la banlieue de Besançon au Moyen Age . Roland Fiétier
On the Bridges of Mediaeval Paris . Virginia Wylie Egbert
Medieval French Bridges: A History
Pilgrimage to Canterbury . Howard Loxton
Resistance to Technological Innovation: The History of the Pile Driver through the 18th Century
Harvesting the Air: Windmill Pioneers in Twelfth-Century England . Edward J. Kealey
The Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Meeting, October 23-26, 1986
Organizational Notes THE PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, MEETING, OCTOBER 23—26, 1986 More than 275 people attended the twenty-ninth annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) at the Pittsburgh Hilton, October 23—26, 1986. The meeting was held simultaneously with those of the History of Science Society (HSS), the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA), and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S); total attendance at Pitt…
Building Construction before Mechanization by John Fitchen
TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 677 this case most of the social history is lacking. On the other hand, the clear value that the author has gained from his urban perspective may stimulate other scholars to look more closely at social, economic, and—especially—demographic history. Indeed, it is a disappointment in this second volume, in contrast to the first, to find so little com parative material in the all but minimal notes. A more technol…
Building Construction before Mechanization
In this intriguing book John Fitchen explains and illustrates the solutions to these and many other puzzles in preindustrial building construction
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