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<article xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">kaspy</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">THE CASPIAN REGION: politics, economics, culture</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="electronic" /><issn publication-format="print">1818-510X</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="ru">Астраханский государственный университет им. В. Н. Татищева</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">27</article-id><title-group xml:lang="ru"><article-title>On the problem of methodology of history of technics</article-title></title-group><title-group xml:lang="en"><article-title>On the problem of methodology of history of technics</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Pristavakin</surname><given-names>Ilya N.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Pristavakin</surname><given-names>Ilya N.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>antonina_sokolova67@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff36" /></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff36"><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">The Astrakhan State Technical University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="en">The Astrakhan State Technical University</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub"><year>2012</year></pub-date><issue>4</issue><fpage>191</fpage><lpage>197</lpage><history /><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2012/issue/4/article/27">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2012/issue/4/article/27</self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/4(33)/191-197.pdf" content-type="pdf">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/4(33)/191-197.pdf</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>The article offers a different approach to the history of technics. But this is a scientific approach. From the author’s point of view, the history of technics may and should be treated as a history of technological transformations. This way of thinking enables all those who study technics not only to understand the process of technogenesis but to learn to improve technics also.</p></abstract><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The article offers a different approach to the history of technics. But this is a scientific approach. From the author’s point of view, the history of technics may and should be treated as a history of technological transformations. This way of thinking enables all those who study technics not only to understand the process of technogenesis but to learn to improve technics also.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>History</kwd><kwd>Technics</kwd><kwd>Technology</kwd><kwd>Conception</kwd><kwd>Methodology</kwd><kwd>Transformation</kwd><kwd>Invention.</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>History</kwd><kwd>Technics</kwd><kwd>Technology</kwd><kwd>Conception</kwd><kwd>Methodology</kwd><kwd>Transformation</kwd><kwd>Invention.</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group xml:lang="ru"><funding-statement /></funding-group><funding-group xml:lang="en"><funding-statement /></funding-group></article-meta></front><body /><back><ref-list /></back></article>