Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Study of Medieval Technology, 1924-1974: Personal Reflections [1975]
  • Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages [1940]
  • Natural Science and Naturalistic Art in the Middle Ages [1947]
  • Tibet, India, and Malaya as Sources of Western Medieval Technology [1960]
  • Eilmer of Malmebury, an Eleventh Century Aviator: A Case Study of Technology and Science [1963]
  • Theophilus redivivus [1964]
  • The Legacy of the Middle Ages in the American Wild West [1965]
  • Pumps and Pendula: Galileo and Technology [1966]
  • The Life of the Silent Majority [1967]
  • Jacopo Aconcio as an Engineer [1967]
  • The Invention of the Parachute [1968]
  • The Iconography of Temperantia and the Virtuousness of Technology [1969]
  • The Origins of the Coach [1970]
  • Cultural Climates and Technological Advance in the Middle Ages [1971]
  • The Diffusion of the Lateen Sail [1974]
  • The Crusades and the Technological Thrust of the West [1975]
  • Medical Astrologers and Late Medieval Technology [1975]
  • Medieval Engineering and the Sociology of Knowledge [1975].