Notebooks
History of Technology
03 Oct 1994 12:01
To read:
- Robert McC. Adams, Paths of Fire
- Adas, Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology,
and Ideologies of Western Dominance
- Lindy Biggs, The Rational Factory: Architecture, Technology
and Work in America's Age of Mass Production
- W. Bernard Carlson, Innovation as a Social Process: Elihu
Thomson and the Rise of General Eletric, 1870--1900
- Julie A. Cohn, The Grid: Biography of an American Technology
- Simon A. Cole, Suspect Identities: A History of
Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification
- Robert Friedel, A Culutre of Improvement: Technology and the
Western Millennium
- David Hounshell, From the American System to Mass Production,
1800--1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United
States
- Thomas Parke Hughes, Networks of Power: Electrification in
Western Society, 1880--1930 ["Communism means all power to the soviets,
and the electrification of the entire country." --- Lenin]
- David Landes, The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change
and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present
- Carroll Pursell, The Machine in America: A Social History of
Technology
- Nathan Rosenberg, Exploring the Black Box: Technology,
Economics, and History
- John Ziman (ed.), Technological Innovation as an
Evolutionary Process
