FOREWORD: Science Streams and Engineering Practices, by Marco Ceccarelli.- PROLOGUE: What's Wrong with Science and Technology Studies? What Needs to Be Done to Put It Right?, by Nicholas Maxwell.- INTRODUCTION by the Editor: History of Science, Society and Technology Studies, by Raffaele Pisano.- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.- REMARKS for the READER.- Electronics and Information Engineering: a New Approach to Modelling 1890-1950, by Chris Bissell.- Science-Technology Cross-Hybridization and its Role in the Crisis of the Scientific Method: an Historical Perspective, by Assunta Bonanno, Michele Camarca, Peppino Sapia.- How the Movie Camera Failed to Become Part of The Standard Astronomical Observational Toolkit (1895-1914), by Vitor Bonifacio.- Heart Matters. The Collaboration between Surgeons and Engineers in the Rise of Cardiac Surgery, by Luca Borghi.- Discovery of Electromagnetic Waves and their Impact on our Life-Style, by Mario Calamia, Giorgio Franceschetti, Alessandro Mori.- Interactions of Science, Technology and Medicine: the Electromagnetic Radiation during the 20th Century, by Yulia Petrovna Chukova.- On the History and Technology of the Atomic Bomb. The Commitment of the Scientists, by Vincenzo Cioci.- Tribology: A historical Overview of the Relation between Theory and Application, by Javier Echávarri, Eduardo de la Guerra, Enrique Chacón.- From Paper to Erected Walls: the Astronomical Observatory of Coimbra: 1772--1799, by Fernando Bandeira Figueiredo.- Jean Hellot and 18th Century Chemistry at the Service of the State, by Rémi Franckowiak.- Engineering Creativity: an Essay on Epistemological Analysis, by Elena Alexandrovna Gavrilina.- Galileo s "Technoscience", by Vitaly Gorokhov.- Mathematical Language as a Bridge between Conceptualization of Motion and Experimental Practice, by Ladislav Kvasz.- 'The Renaissance of Physics': Karl K. Darrow (1891-1982) and the Dissemination of Quantum Mechanics at the Bell Telephone Laboratories, by Roberto Lalli.- The Historical Development of X-Ray Absorption Fine Spectroscopy and of its Applications to Materials Science, Annibale Mottana, Augusto Marcelli.- Mathematics and Technology at the University of Tartu, by Peeter Müürsepp.- Highlights of King Sejong's Astronomical Project: Observatory Ganui-dae and Calendar Chiljeong-san, by Moon-hyon Nam, Il-Seong Nha.- Innovations on the Timekeeping Devices at King Sejong's Observatory Ganui-dae, by Moon-hyon Nam.- Lazare Carnot and the Birth of Machines Science, by Agamenon Rodrigues Eufrásio de Oliveira.- On the History and Engineering of the Human Factor, by Dominique Pécaud.- The Emergencies of Mechanics and Thermodynamics in the Western Society during 18th-19th Century, by Raffaele Pisano, Paolo Bussotti.- A Critical Approach to Open Access Sources with a Focus on the History of Technology, by Birute Railiene.- "Method and Much Scientific Probity" Hugo de Lacerda (1860-1944) and the Chair of Hydrography of the Lisbon Naval School (1897-1907), by Pedro Miguel Pinto Raposo.- Combinatorial Games and Machines, by Lisa Rougetet.- Development of New Steamships and History of the Shipping Industry in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1816-1861), by Maria Sirago.- Unrealized Models of Tesla's Table Fountains From 1917, by Bratislav Stojiljkovic, Svetislav Lj. Markovic.- The Design of Timber Trusses in Italy: from Empiricism to Structural Analysis, by Emanuele Zamperini.- A POINT OF VIEW: Science, Societies, Cultures and Their Evolutions, by Bertrand Bocquet.- Index.