Technology in America : a history of individuals and ideas / edited by Carroll W. Pursell, Jr.

Contributor(s):

Pursell, Carroll W

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1981.Description: xi, 264 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:

0262660490

Subject(s):

Technology -- United States

DDC classification:

609.73 TEC

Contents:

Technology in America : an introduction / Carroll W. Pursell, Jr The artisan during America's wooden age / Brooke Hindle Thomas Jefferson and a democratic technology / Hugo A. Meier Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the transfer of technology / Darwin H. Stapleton Eli Whitney and the American system of manufacturing / Merritt Roe Smith Thomas P. Jones and the evolution of technical education / Bruce Sinclair Cyrus Hall McCormick and the mechanization of agriculture / Carroll W. Pursell, Jr James Buchanan Eads : the engineer as entrepreneur / John A. Kouwenhoven James B. Francis and the rise of scientific technology / Edwin T. Layton, Jr Alexander Graham Bell and the conquest of solitude / Robert V. Bruce Thomas Alva Edison and the rise of electricity / Thomas Parke Hughes George Eastman and the coming of industrial research in America / Reese V. Jenkins. Ellen Swallow Richards : technology and women / Ruth Schwartz Cowan Gifford Pinchot and the American conservation movement / Samuel P. Hays Frederick Winslow Taylor and scientific management / Gail Cooper Henry Ford and the triumph of the automobile / James J. Flink Peter L. Jensen and the amplification of sound / W. David Lewis Charles A. Lindbergh : his flight and the American ideal / John Wiliam Ward Keaton and Chaplin : the silent film's response to technology / George Basalla Morris L. Cooke and energy for America / Jean Christie Enrico Fermi and the development of nuclear power / Lawrence Badash Robert H. Goddard and the origins of space flight / Barton C. Hacker Frederick E. Terman and the rise of Silicon Valley / James C. Williams

Summary: This is a collection of essays focusing on the spread and elaboration of American technology, and on the men and women who shaped it. Beginning with technology of America's Wooden Age, the authors discuss Jefferson's perception of the role of technology in a democratic society; the American System of Manufactures of Eli Whitney and others; Thomas P. Jones and the institutionalization of industrialization in educational reforms; McCormick and the spread of industrialization to agriculture; and James Eads and the rise of transportation networks. ISBN 0-262-66049-0 (pbk.): $9.95

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Mzumbe University Main Campus Library	609.73 TEC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		0040613

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Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 241-248.

Technology in America : an introduction / Carroll W. Pursell, Jr
The artisan during America's wooden age / Brooke Hindle
Thomas Jefferson and a democratic technology / Hugo A. Meier
Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the transfer of technology / Darwin H. Stapleton
Eli Whitney and the American system of manufacturing / Merritt Roe Smith
Thomas P. Jones and the evolution of technical education / Bruce Sinclair
Cyrus Hall McCormick and the mechanization of agriculture / Carroll W. Pursell, Jr
James Buchanan Eads : the engineer as entrepreneur / John A. Kouwenhoven
James B. Francis and the rise of scientific technology / Edwin T. Layton, Jr
Alexander Graham Bell and the conquest of solitude / Robert V. Bruce
Thomas Alva Edison and the rise of electricity / Thomas Parke Hughes
George Eastman and the coming of industrial research in America / Reese V. Jenkins. Ellen Swallow Richards : technology and women / Ruth Schwartz Cowan
Gifford Pinchot and the American conservation movement / Samuel P. Hays
Frederick Winslow Taylor and scientific management / Gail Cooper
Henry Ford and the triumph of the automobile / James J. Flink
Peter L. Jensen and the amplification of sound / W. David Lewis
Charles A. Lindbergh : his flight and the American ideal / John Wiliam Ward
Keaton and Chaplin : the silent film's response to technology / George Basalla
Morris L. Cooke and energy for America / Jean Christie
Enrico Fermi and the development of nuclear power / Lawrence Badash
Robert H. Goddard and the origins of space flight / Barton C. Hacker
Frederick E. Terman and the rise of Silicon Valley / James C. Williams

This is a collection of essays focusing on the spread and elaboration of American technology, and on the men and women who shaped it. Beginning with technology of America's Wooden Age, the authors discuss Jefferson's perception of the role of technology in a democratic society; the American System of Manufactures of Eli Whitney and others; Thomas P. Jones and the institutionalization of industrialization in educational reforms; McCormick and the spread of industrialization to agriculture; and James Eads and the rise of transportation networks. ISBN 0-262-66049-0 (pbk.): $9.95

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