| Description |
461 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Overview. Technology and history: "Kranzberg's Laws" / Melvin Kranzberg -- Technology and the West through Britain's industrial revolution, (to ca. 1850). Technology in the preindustrial West / Terry S. Reynolds and Stephen H. Cutcliffe ; The first technological revolution and its lessons Peter F. Drucker ; Greek catapults and catapult technology: science, technology, and war in the ancient world / Barton C. Hacher ; The technical act: the act of intention: causes, contexts, continuities, and consequences / Lynn White, jr. ; Air pollution and fuel crises in preindustrial London, 1250-1650 / William H. Te Brake ; The replacement of the longbow by firearms in the English army / Thomas Esper ; On the social explanation of technical change: the case of the Portuguese maritime expansion / John Law ; Muskets and pendulums: Benjainin Robins, Leonhard Euler, and the ballistics revolution / Brett D. Steele ; The philosophy of Luddism: the case of the west of England woolen workers, ca. 1790-1809 / Adrian J. Randall ; Roads, railways, and canals: technical choices in 19th-century Britain / Francis T. Evans -- The expansion and diffusion of western industrial technology, (ca. 1850 to present). Technology and the industrial West / Terry S. Reynolds and Stephen H. Cutcliffe ; Economic development and the transfer of technology: some historical perspectives / Nathan Rosenberg ; The weapons of the West: military technology and modernization in 19th-century China and Japan / Barton C. Hacker ; The "industrial revolution" in the home: household technology and social change in the 20th century / Ruth Schwartz Cowan ; The deve!opment of the diesel engine / Lynwood Brynat. |
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; The emergence of basic research in the Bell Telephone System, 1875-1915 / Lillian Hoddeson ; Flexibility and mass production at war: aircraft manufacture in Britain, the United States, and Germany, 1939-1945 / Jonathan Zeitlin ; Spage [i.e. Space]-age Europe: Gaullism, Euro-Gaullism, and the American dilemma / Walter A. McDougall ; Nuclear power and the environment: the Atomic Energy Commission and thermal pollution, 1965-1971 / J. Samuel Walker. |
| Subject |
Technology -- History.
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| Added Author |
Reynolds, Terry S.
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Cutcliffe, Stephen H.
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| Spine Title |
Technology and the West |
| Added Title |
Technology and culture.
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| Standard No. |
38475235 |
| ISBN |
0226710335 (cloth) |
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0226710343 (pbk.) |
| OCLC # |
36430631 |
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