Message-ID: <32EAADCE.7A05@ix.netcom.com> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 20:05:18 -0500 From: The Otts <mailto:ottx4@IX.NETCOM.COM> Subject: Re: Book on Appropriate Technologies for developing countries. To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Rod,Vita's home page, http://www.vita.org contains a pointer to both a gopher menu, gopher://gopher.vita.org:70/1/intl/vita/pubcat and an ftp site, ftp://ftp.vita.org/pub/vita.info/95pubcat.txt with a catalog of their publications. They have also recently put all their publications onto one CD-ROM, available for about $100 US, I believe.
Hope this information is helpful to you and others.
Peggy
Nomad wrote: >
> When I was a Peace Corps Voluteer several years ago, I came across a book on
> appropriate technology for field workers doing appropriate technology
> transfer in developing countries. The book was filled with schematics and
> diagrams on how to easily build suction water pumps, shadoufs,...etc, made
> from readily obtainable products in rural markets. It was like the
> "J.Peterman" approriate technology catalogue for volunteers doing technical
> assitance. Many of the plans had been devised by the USARMY (during the
> Vietnam war, I think), and each plan gave a brief history about where the
> device was used, and the estimated costs for materials.
> I would really like to get a hold of another copy or even a Xerox copy, the
> name, anything. I think it was put out by VITA, many years ago.
>
> Thanks for any help on this,
>
> mailto:@@@ Rod Stubina
> mailto:@@ @@ @@ RPCV Niger, West Africa 90-93
> mailto:@@@@@@@@@\ 352 377 2834
> mailto:@ @ 352 392 6993
> mailto:_@ _@
>
> B356 Turlington Hall
> Department of Anthropology
> University of Florida
> mailto:Nomad@revolutionist.com