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| Author | : Rosanne Welch |
| Publisher | : ABC-CLIO |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2019-02-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1610690931 |
Volume 1. Colonial America to 1865 -- volume 2. Reconstruction through World War II -- volume 3. The Cold War to the present.
| Author | : Thomas Parke Hughes |
| Publisher | : Penguin (Non-Classics) |
| Total Pages | : 548 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Inventions |
| ISBN | : 9780140097412 |
American Genesis is the story of America's love affair-and inextricable entaglement-with technology from 1870-1970, the greatest period of productivity the world has ever known.
| Author | : Bruce Sinclair |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780262195041 |
The intersection of race and technology: blackcreativity and the economic and social functions of the myth ofdisengenuity.
| Author | : Carroll Pursell |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 1990-04-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780262660679 |
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.
| Author | : Robert Friedel |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 247 |
| Release | : 2010-07-19 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 0801899443 |
In September 1878, Thomas Alva Edison brashly—and prematurely—proclaimed his breakthrough invention of a workable electric light. That announcement was followed by many months of intense experimentation that led to the successful completion of his Pearl Street station four years later. Edison was not alone—nor was he first—in developing an incandescent light bulb, but his was the most successful of all competing inventions. Drawing from the documents in the Edison archives, Robert Friedel and Paul Israel explain how this came to be. They explore the process of invention through the Menlo Park notes, discussing the full range of experiments, including the testing of a host of materials, the development of such crucial tools as the world's best vacuum pump, and the construction of the first large-scale electrical generators and power distribution systems. The result is a fascinating story of excitement, risk, and competition. Revised and updated from the original 1986 edition, this definitive study of the most famous invention of America's most famous inventor is completely keyed to the printed and electronic versions of the Edison Papers, inviting the reader to explore further the remarkable original sources.
| Author | : Carroll Pursell |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 417 |
| Release | : 2007-03-15 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0801885787 |
From the medieval farm implements used by the first colonists to the invisible links of the Internet, the history of technology in America is a history of society as well. This title analyzes technology's impact on the lives of women and men. It also discusses the innovation of an American system of manufactures.
| Author | : Gary Cross |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 477 |
| Release | : 2018-12-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1351249096 |
Providing a global perspective on the development of American technology, Technology and American Society offers a historical narrative detailing major technological transformations over the last three centuries. With coverage devoted to both dramatic breakthroughs and incremental innovations, authors Gary Cross and Rick Szostak analyze the cause-and-effect relationship of technological change and its role in the constant drive for improvement and modernization. This fully-updated 3rd edition extends coverage of industry, home, office, agriculture, transport, constructions, and services into the twenty-first century, concluding with a new chapter on recent electronic and technological advances. Technology and American Society remains the ideal introduction to the myriad interactions of technological advancement with social, economic, cultural, and military change throughout the course of American history.
| Author | : Matthew Wisnioski |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 417 |
| Release | : 2019-04-09 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 0262352605 |
A critical exploration of today's global imperative to innovate, by champions, critics, and reformers of innovation. Corporate executives, politicians, and school board leaders agree—Americans must innovate. Innovation experts fuel this demand with books and services that instruct aspiring innovators in best practices, personal habits, and workplace cultures for fostering innovation. But critics have begun to question the unceasing promotion of innovation, pointing out its gadget-centric shallowness, the lack of diversity among innovators, and the unequal distribution of innovation's burdens and rewards. Meanwhile, reformers work to make the training of innovators more inclusive and the outcomes of innovation more responsible. This book offers an overdue critical exploration of today's global imperative to innovate by bringing together innovation's champions, critics, and reformers in conversation. The book presents an overview of innovator training, exploring the history, motivations, and philosophies of programs in private industry, universities, and government; offers a primer on critical innovation studies, with essays that historicize, contextualize, and problematize the drive to create innovators; and considers initiatives that seek to reform and reshape what it means to be an innovator. Contributors Errol Arkilic, Catherine Ashcraft, Leticia Britos Cavagnaro, W. Bernard Carlson, Lisa D. Cook, Humera Fasihuddin, Maryann Feldman, Erik Fisher, Benoît Godin, Jenn Gustetic, David Guston, Eric S. Hintz, Marie Stettler Kleine, Dutch MacDonald, Mickey McManus, Sebastian Pfotenhauer, Natalie Rusk, Andrew L. Russell, Lucinda M. Sanders, Brenda Trinidad, Lee Vinsel, Matthew Wisnioski
| Author | : Daniel R. Headrick Professor of Social Sciences and History Roosevelt University |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 197 |
| Release | : 2009-02-25 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 0199713669 |
Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment. Technology: A World History offers an illuminating backdrop to our present moment--a brilliant history of invention around the globe. Historian Daniel R. Headrick ranges from the Stone Age and the beginnings of agriculture to the Industrial Revolution and the electronic revolution of the recent past. In tracing the growing power of humans over nature through increasingly powerful innovations, he compares the evolution of technology in different parts of the world, providing a much broader account than is found in other histories of technology. We also discover how small changes sometimes have dramatic results--how, for instance, the stirrup revolutionized war and gave the Mongols a deadly advantage over the Chinese. And how the nailed horseshoe was a pivotal breakthrough for western farmers. Enlivened with many illustrations, Technology offers a fascinating look at the spread of inventions around the world, both as boons for humanity and as weapons of destruction.
