By
Thomas Kingston Derry,Trevor Illtyd Williams
"THIS book is the sequel to a very much larger work, a five-volume
History of Technology, endowed by Imperial Chemical Industries
Limited and published by the Clarendon Press, Oxford. When the
compilation of this large work was approved in 1949 it was expected
that there might in due course be a demand for a smaller book
covering much the same ground. This expectation has been fulfilled:
many reviewers of the earlier volumes specifically urged the publica-
tion of a shorter version that would introduce the subject to a much
wider body of readers. In view of this, I.C.I. agreed to make avail-
able the further endowment that was necessary and the Clarendon
Press undertook publication: the present book is the result."
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