Technology and american history : a historical anthology from technology and culture /
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1997.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Stephen H. Cutcliffe and Terry S. Reynods. - Technology in american context / Stephen H. Cutcliffe and Terry S. Reynods.
- Brandywine borrowings from european technology / Norman B. Wilkinson.
- "Drive that branch": Samuel Slater, the power loom, and the writing of america's textile history / James L. Conrad, Jr.
- Raw materials supply and technological change in the american charcoal iron industry / Richard H. Schallenberg and David A. Ault.
- Bursting boilers and the federal power / John G. Burke.
- Who turned the mechanical ideal into mechanical reality? / Robert B. Gordon.
- From i ron to steel: the recasting of the Jones and Laughlins workforce between 1885 and 1896 / David Jardini.
- Technology and the market: George Eastman and the origins of mass amateur photography / Reese V. Jenkins.
- A new role for professional scientists in industry: industrial research at general electric, 1900-1916 / George Wise.
- Custom design, engineering guarantees, and unpatentable data: the air conditioning industry, 1902-1935 / Gail Cooper.
- "Touch someone": the telephone industry discovers sociability / Claude S. Fischer.
- Farmers deskilled: hybrid corn a nd farmers' work / Deborah Fitzgerald.
- The "industrial revolution" in the home: household technology and social change in the 20th century / Ruth Schwartz Cowan.
- Research, engineering, and science in american engineering colleges: 1900-1960 / Bruce Seely.
- Technology in the seamless web: "success" and "failure" in the histor y of the electron microscope / Gregory C. Kunkle.
- Momentum shifts in the american electric utility system: catastrophic change-or no change at all? / Richard F. Hirsh and Adam H. Serchuk.