The Machine in America

The Machine in America
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.

Technical Innovation in American History

Technical Innovation in American History
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.

Early American Technology

Early American Technology
Author: Judith A. McGaw
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 495
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807839981

This collection of original essays documents technology's centrality to the history of early America. Unlike much previous scholarship, this volume emphasizes the quotidian rather than the exceptional: the farm household seeking to preserve food or acquire tools, the surveyor balancing economic and technical considerations while laying out a turnpike, the woman of child-bearing age employing herbal contraceptives, and the neighbors of a polluted urban stream debating issues of property, odor, and health. These cases and others drawn from brewing, mining, farming, and woodworking enable the authors to address recent historiographic concerns, including the environmental aspects of technological change and the gendered nature of technical knowledge. Brooke Hindle's classic 1966 essay on early American technology is also reprinted, and his view of the field is reassessed. A bibliographical essay and summary of Hindle's bibliographic findings conclude the volume. The contributors are Judith A. McGaw, Robert C. Post, Susan E. Klepp, Michal McMahon, Patrick W. O'Bannon, Sarah F. McMahon, Donald C. Jackson, Robert B. Gordon, Carolyn C. Cooper, and Nina E. Lerman.

Technology in America

Technology in America
Author: Alan I. Marcus
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 710
Release: 2018-04-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1350307580

Now in a thoroughly updated new edition, this successful textbook surveys the history of technology in America from the 1600s to the 21st century. Alan I Marcus and Howard P. Segal explore the effect society, culture, politics and economics have had upon technological advances, and place the evolution of American technology within the broader context of the development of systems such as transportation and communications. This unique book connects phenomena such as colonial printing presses with the American Revolution; early photographs with the creation of an allegedly unique American character; and high-tech advances in biotechnology with a growing desire for individual autonomy. This is an ideal resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of the history of technology, the history of science, and American history.

Twelve Inventions which Changed America

Twelve Inventions which Changed America
Author: Gerhard Falk
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 0761860800

This book describes twelve inventions that transformed the United States from a rural and small-town community to an industrial country of unprecedented power. These inventions demonstrate that no one person is ever responsible for technological advances and that the culture produces a number of people who work together to create each new invention. The book also shows the influences of technology on society and examines the beliefs and attitudes of those who partake in technological advances. The book is both a sociological analysis and a history of technology in the United States in the past two hundred years.

America as Second Creation

America as Second Creation
Author: David E. Nye
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2004-09-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0262263947

An exploration of the dialogue that emerged after 1776 between different visions of what it meant to use new technologies to transform the land. After 1776, the former American colonies began to reimagine themselves as a unified, self-created community. Technologies had an important role in the resulting national narratives, and a few technologies assumed particular prominence. Among these were the axe, the mill, the canal, the railroad, and the irrigation dam. In this book David Nye explores the stories that clustered around these technologies. In doing so, he rediscovers an American story of origins, with America conceived as a second creation built in harmony with God's first creation. While mainstream Americans constructed technological foundation stories to explain their place in the New World, however, marginalized groups told other stories of destruction and loss. Native Americans protested the loss of their forests, fishermen resisted the construction of dams, and early environmentalists feared the exhaustionof resources. A water mill could be viewed as the kernel of a new community or as a new way to exploit labor. If passengers comprehended railways as part of a larger narrative about American expansion and progress, many farmers attacked railroad land grants. To explore these contradictions, Nye devotes alternating chapters to narratives of second creation and to narratives of those who rejected it.Nye draws on popular literature, speeches, advertisements, paintings, and many other media to create a history of American foundation stories. He shows how these stories were revised periodically, as social and economic conditions changed, without ever erasing the earlier stories entirely. The image of the isolated frontier family carving a homestead out of the wilderness with an axe persists to this day, alongside later images and narratives. In the book's conclusion, Nye considers the relation between these earlier stories and such later American developments as the conservation movement, narratives of environmental recovery, and the idealization of wilderness.

Technology and American Society

Technology and American Society
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.

Technology in America

Technology in America
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.

Technology and the African-American Experience

Technology and the African-American Experience
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.

Technology in the Industrial Revolution

Technology in the Industrial Revolution
Author: Barbara Hahn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2020-01-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107186803

Places the British Industrial Revolution in global context, providing a fresh perspective on the relationship between technology and society.