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Tinker, tiller, technical change : technologies from the people / edited by Matthew Gamser, Helen Appleton and Nicola Carter.
- Title
- Tinker, tiller, technical change : technologies from the people / edited by Matthew Gamser, Helen Appleton and Nicola Carter.
- Publication
- London, UK : Intermediate Technology Publications ; New York, NY : Published in North America by Bootstrap Press, 1990.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | T173.5.D44 T56 1990 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvii, 278 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Technological innovations > Developing countries > Case studies
- Genre/Form
- Case studies
- Note
- Results of field work originally presented at a seminar held at the London Business School in June 1989.
- Latin American case studies translated by Geraldine Skinner.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-278).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Africa: Regional overview / J.G.M. Massaquoi -- Coffee pulper in northern Tanzania / Simon R. Nkonoki -- Residue stoves in Kenya / Mohammed Mwamadzingo -- Grate cooking system in Zimbabwe / Mthuli Ncube -- Salt from silt in Sierra Leone / J.G.M. Massaquoi -- Cassava processing innovations in Nigeria / R.O. Adegboye and J.A. Akinwumi -- Nigerian cassava grater / Selina Adjebeng-Asem -- Asia: Regional overview ; Farmers, fabricators, and formal R & D -- the pipe frame multipurpose tool bar in Gujarat, India / Rakesh Basant -- Blacksmithy in Bangladesh / M. Mainul Haque, M. Nurul Islam, M. Nazrul Islam -- Improved ghattas (water mills) in Nepal / Ganesh Ram Shrestha, Kiran Man Singh -- Artificial fishing reef and bait technologies by artisanal fishermen of southwest India / John Kadappuram.
- Latin America: Regional overview / Guillermo Rochabrun -- Peoples' innovations in housing construction in Huancayo, Peru / Flor de Maria Monzon -- Technologies of survival in the slums of Santo Domingo / David Scott Luther -- Water, myth, and technology in a Peruvian coastal valley / Maria Teresa Oré, Guillermo Rochabrun -- Fire, water, and innovation in Chilean farming communities / Waldo Bustamente Gómez -- From three-stone fires to smokeless stoves in Venezuela / Luis Miguel Abad -- Adoption and adaptation of solar energy technologies in the Bolivian Altiplano / Roxana Mercad Rodas -- Killing artisanal fishing with kindness in Nicaragua / Octavio Tapia.
- ISBN
- 0942850319 (U.S.)
- 1853390615 :
- LCCN
- gb^90039911^
- OCLC
- 22241270
- SCSB-10750478
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library