| Description |
xi, 264 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction : Technology in America / Carroll W. Pursell, Jr. -- Artisan during America's wooden age / Brooke Hindle -- Thomas Jefferson and a democratic technology / Hugo A. Meier -- Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the transfer of technology / Darwin H. Stapleton -- Eli Whitney and the American system of manufacturing / Merritt Roe Smith -- Thomas P. Jones and the evolution of technical education / Bruce Sinclair -- Cyrus Hall McCormick and the mechanization of agriculture / Carroll W. Pursell, Jr. -- James Buchanan Eads : the engineer as entrepreneur / John A. Kouwenhoven -- James B. Francis and the rise of scientific technology / Edwin T. Layton, Jr. -- Alexander Graham Bell and the conquest of solitude / Robert V. Bruce -- Thomas Alva Edison and the rise of electricity / Thomas Parke Hughes -- George Eastman and the coming of industrial research in America / Reese V. Jenkins -- Ellen Swallow Richards : technology and women / Ruth Schwartz Cowan -- Gifford Pinchot and the American Conservation movement / Samuel P. Hays -- Henry Ford and the triumph of the automobile / James J. Flink -- Charles A. Lindbergh : his flight and the American ideal / John William Ward -- Keaton and Chaplin : the silent film's response to technology / George Basalla -- Morris L. Cooke and energy for America / Jean Christie -- Enrico Fermi and the development of nuclear power / Lawrence Badash -- Robert H. Goddard and the origins of space flight / Barton C. Hacker |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 241-248 |
| Notes |
Also available as an electronic book via the World Wide Web to institutions affiliated with netLibrary, Inc |
| Subject |
Technology -- United States -- History.
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| Author |
Pursell, Carroll W.
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| LC no. |
81008364 |
| ISBN |
0262660490 (paperback) |
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0585334013 (electronic bk.) |
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