Major problems in the history of American technology : documents and essays

Major problems in the history of American technology documents and essays

What is technology -- New worlds of technique: Native Americans and Europeans, ca 1600-1770 -- Debate over manufactures in the Early Republic, 1785-1820 -- Inside factory systems, 1820-1885 -- "Second Nature": steam, space and an new world order, 1840-1900 -- Telephony, 1872-1914 -- Invent...

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Weitere Verfasser: Smith, Merritt R. (BerichterstatterIn), Clancey, Gregory (BerichterstatterIn), Smith, Merritt Roe (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Boston u.a. Houghton Mifflin 1998
Schriftenreihe:Major problems in American history series
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Technology > History > Science > Quelle > Aufsatzsammlung > USA > Technik > Geschichte
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Zusammenfassung:What is technology -- New worlds of technique: Native Americans and Europeans, ca 1600-1770 -- Debate over manufactures in the Early Republic, 1785-1820 -- Inside factory systems, 1820-1885 -- "Second Nature": steam, space and an new world order, 1840-1900 -- Telephony, 1872-1914 -- Inventing efficiency: scientific management, ca 1900-1939 -- Ford, automobility, and mass production, 1908-1941 -- Toys were us: invention and technological acculturation in hobbyist worlds, 1900-1940 -- Pest war: the shifting use and meaning of insecticides, 1940-1990 -- Military-Industrial-University complex, 1945-1990 -- Countdown to cyberspace: 1974-1990.
What is technology -- New worlds of technique: Native Americans and Europeans, ca 1600-1770 -- Debate over manufactures in the Early Republic, 1785-1820 -- Inside factory systems, 1820-1885 -- "Second Nature": steam, space and an new world order, 1840-1900 -- Telephony, 1872-1914 -- Inventing efficiency: scientific management, ca 1900-1939 -- Ford, automobility, and mass production, 1908-1941 -- Toys were us: invention and technological acculturation in hobbyist worlds, 1900-1940 -- Pest war: the shifting use and meaning of insecticides, 1940-1990 -- Military-Industrial-University complex, 1945-1990 -- Countdown to cyberspace: 1974-1990
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
Beschreibung:XV, 524 S
24 cm
ISBN:0669354724
0-669-35472-4