American Technology

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ISBN: 9780631219972

ISBN-10: 0631219978

ISBN-13: 9780631219972

Edition: 2001

Authors: Carroll Pursell

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American Technology is a collection of ten key essays selected from the latest historical scholarship. The coverage ranges from the colonial period to the modern day with the essays exploring major technological themes including agricultural tool ownership, working environments, the engineering profession, and the intersection of race and gender in technology debates.Each chapter contains an introduction by the editor, a major article, and supporting primary documents that provide vivid images and testimony from the historical events covered in the articles. Also included are a general opening essay on the field by the editor, and further reading lists, making this an ideal resource for…

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List price: $58.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/8/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 374
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.232

Carroll Pursell has taught at several universities, including Case Western Reserve, from which he retired as the Adeline Barry Davee Distinguished Professor Emeritus. He is a former president of the Society for the History of Technology and the International Committee for the History of Technology. He currently serves as adjunct professor of modern history at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.



Introduction



Introduction


"So Much Depends Upon a Red Wheelbarrow: Agricultural Tool Ownership in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic"



Document: Selections from American Colonial Wealth: Documents and Methods



Further Reading



Introduction


Dam-Breaking in the 19th-Century Merrimack Valley: Water, Social Conflict, and the Waltham-Lowell Mills




Winnipissiogee Lake Company v. Worster



Great Falls Manufacturing Company v. Worster


Further Reading



Introduction


Working Environments: An Ecological Approach to Industrial Health and Safety




Nicholas Farwell vs. The Boston and Worster Rail Road Corporation



Edison L. Bowers, Is It Safe to Work? A Study of Industrial Accidents



Edward J. Beshada et al. V. Johns-Manville Products Corporation


Further Reading



Introduction


Socially Camouflaged Technologies: The Case of the Electromechanical Vibrator




U.S. Patent No. 175,202, dated March 21, 1876, granted to George H. Taylor for an "Improvement in Medical Rubbing Apparatus."



M[ary] L.H. Arnold Snow, Mechanical Vibration and Its Therapeutic Application



Moble M. Eberhart, A Brief Guide to Vibratory Technique



A. Dale Covey, Profitable Office Specialtie



"Enjoy Life!", as for White Cross Vibrator


Further Reading



Introduction


Local History and National Culture: Notions on Engineering Professionalism in America




J.A.L. Waddell, "Some Notes on Vocational Guidance"



J.P.H. Perry, "New York Engineers' Successful Efforts to Relieve Unemployment"


Further Reading



Introduction


Out of the Barns and into the Kitchens: Transformations in Farm Women's Work in the First Half of the Twentieth Century




U.S. Department of Agriculture, Social and Labor Needs of Farm Women, Report No. 1903



Guy E. Tripp, Electric Development as an Aid to Agriculture



Newell Leroy Sims, Elements of Rural Sociology


Further Reading



Introduction


Advertising the Atom




U.S. Congress, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Atomic Power Development and Private Enterprise



U.S. Congress, Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Environmental Effects of Producing Electric Power, Hearings



U.S. Congress, House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and Power


Further Reading



Introduction


Race and Technology: African American Women in the Bell System, 1945-1980




Cover, The Telephone Review



Table 8-1


Further Reading



Introduction


The Rise and Fall of the Appropriate Technology Movement in the United States, 1965-1985




Harry S. Truman, "Technical Assistance for the Underdeveloped Areas of the World"



State of California, Press Release, "Office of Appropriate Technology: Purpose, Organization, and Activities," June, 1976



State of California, logo of Office of Appropriate Technology



U.S. Department of Energy, National Center for Appropriate Technology, "An Introduction and a History"



Allen L. Hammond and William D. Metz, "Solar Energy Research: Making Solar After the Nuclear Model?"


Further Reading



Introduction


Hacking Away at the Counterculture



Further Reading


Index