Screen LibraryTechnology in America : a history of individuals and ideas /
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The MIT Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Third edition. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780262535779 (paperback) : 0262535777 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | T21 |
| CLC: | T-097.12 |
| Call Number: | T-097.12/T255/3rd ed. |
| Contents: |
Technology in America : an introduction / The artisan during America's wooden age / Thomas Jefferson and a democratic technology / Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the transfer of technology / Eli Whitney and the American system of manufacturing / Thomas P. Jones and the evolution of technical education / Cyrus Hall McCormick and the mechanization of agriculture / James Buchanan Eads : the engineer as entrepreneur / James B. Francis and the rise of scientific technology / Alexander Graham Bell and the conquest of solitude / Thomas Alva Edison and the rise of electricity / Lewis Latimer and the role of black inventors / George Eastman and the coming of industrial research in America / Ellen Swallow Richards : technology and women / Gifford Pinchot and the American conservation movement / Frederick Winslow Taylor and scientific management / Henry Ford and the triumph of the automobile / A. C. Gilbert, toys, and the boy engineer / Peter L. Jensen and the amplification of sound / Charles A. Lindbergh : his flight and the American ideal / Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin : the silent film's response to technology / Morris L. Cooke and energy for America / Enrico Fermi and the development of nuclear energy / Robert H. Goddard and the origins of space flight / Rachel Carson and the challenge of greening technology / Frederick E. Terman and the rise of Silicon Valley / |