This quantity offers an summary of present study within the heritage of Italian expertise in the end, from the early heart a while to the 20 th century. The individuals specialise in varied facets of Italian creativity in a neighborhood, transnational and international measurement, tracing the trajectory from primacy to relative decline. the subjects diversity from the construction and institution of recent applied sciences in laboratories or organisations, the approaches of studying, diffusion, and copying and the associations excited by the new release of a countrywide technological potential and innovation procedure. Comparative reviews are incorporated that allows you to illustrate precise good points of the Italian case. The industries lined during this quantity variety from silk, iron and metal creation, to electrical energy new release and telecommunications.

Special factor: Italian expertise from the Renaissance to the 20 th Century
Edited via Anna Guagnini and Luca Mola

Included during this volume:
Inventors, Patents and the marketplace for suggestions in Renaissance Italy
The Microcosm: Technological Innovation and the move of Mechanical wisdom within the Habsburg Empire of the 16th century
Diamonds in Early glossy Venice: know-how, items and foreign Competition
A international Supremacy. the global Hegemony of the Piedmontese Reeling applied sciences, 1720s-1830s
Raw fabrics, Transmission of information and Ceramic options in Early smooth Italy: a Mediterranean perspective
Anabaptist Migration and the Diffusion of the Maiolica from Faenza to critical Europe
A daring jump into electrical mild. The production of the Società Italiana Edison, 1880-1886
Keeping Abreast with the expertise of technology. the industrial lifetime of the Physics Laboratory on the collage of Padua, 1847-1857
Mechanics "Made in Italy”: Innovation and services Evolution. A Case examine from the Packaging undefined, 1960-98
Telecommunications Italian sort. The shaping of the constitutive offerings (1850-1914)
Beyond the parable of the Self-taught Inventor. the training strategy and early life of younger Guglielmo Marconi
Technology move, fiscal suggestions and Politics within the construction of the 1st Italian Submarine Telegraph
Lights and colours: Italian Innovation around the Centuries
European metal vs chinese language cast iron: From Technological swap to Social and Political offerings (4th Century BC-18th Century AD)
The Italian nationwide Innovation procedure. a protracted time period viewpoint, 1861-2011