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In the Beginninga | |
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Social History of American Technology | |
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The Land, the Natives, and the Settlers | |
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The Land and the Native Inhabitants | |
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The European SettlersThe Colonial Economy | |
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Colonial Economic Policy and Technological Change | |
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Conclusion: Quickening the Pace for Technological Change | |
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Husbandry and Huswifery in the Colonies | |
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Types of Farms in the Colonial Period | |
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The Technological System of Colonial Agriculture | |
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Conclusion: The Myth of Self-Sufficiency | |
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Colonial Artisans | |
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The Apprenticeship System and Labor Scarcity | |
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Printshops and PrintersMills, Millwrights, and Millers | |
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Iron Foundries and Iron Workers | |
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Conclusion: Reasons for the Slow Pace of Technological Change | |
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Industrialization | |
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Early Decades of Industrialization | |
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Oliver Evans, Steam Engines, and Machine Shops | |
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Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin | |
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The Armament Industry and the American System of Manufacture | |
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Samuel Slater and the Factory System | |
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Conclusion: The Unique Character of American Industrialization | |
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Transportation Revolutions | |
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Transportation Difficulties | |
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Toll Roads and Entrepreneurs | |
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Canal Building and State Financing | |
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Steamboats: Steam Power and State Power | |
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Railroads: Completing a National Transportation System | |
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Inventors, Entrepreneurs and Engineers | |
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The Patent System: The Public History of Invention | |
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Inventors: Changes between 1820 and 1920 | |
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Industrial Society and Technological Systems | |
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Industrialization, Dependency, and Technological Systems | |
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The Telegraph System | |
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The Railroad System | |
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The Telephone System | |
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The Electric SystemThe Character of Industrialized Society | |
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Conclusion: Industrialization and Technological Systems | |
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Daily Life and Mundane WorkFarmers and Unexpected Outcomes | |
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Skilled and Deskilled Workers | |
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Unskilled Workers | |
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Housewives and House Servants | |
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Conclusion: Was Industrialization Good or Bad for Workers? | |
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American Ideas about Technology | |
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Technology and Associated Ideas | |
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Precursors to Industrialization | |
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Technology and Romanticism | |
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Acceptance of Romanticism by Advocates of Industrialization | |
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Technology and ArtConclusion: The Cultural Meanings of Technology | |
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Twentieth-Century Technologies blessing or Curse? | |
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Automobiles and Automobility | |
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Who Invented the Automobile? | |
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Henry Ford and the Mass-Produced Automobile | |
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Alfred P. Sloan and the Mass-Marketed American Automobile | |
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Automobility and the Road System before 1945 | |
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Automobility and the Road System after 1945 | |
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The Unexpected Consequences of Automobility | |
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Taxpayers, Generals and Aviation | |
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The Early Days of Aircraft and the Aircraft Industry | |
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World War II: A Turning PointThe Military-Industrial-Academic Complex | |
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Civilian Spin-offs and the Race into Space | |
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Conclusion: Costs and Benefits of Military Sponsorship | |
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Communications Technologies and Social Control | |
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Wireless Telegraphy | |
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Wireless Telephony | |
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Government Regulation of Wireless Communication | |
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Wireless Broadcasting: Radio | |
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Television | |
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Electronic Components: The Vacuum Tube and the Transistor | |
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Computers | |
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COnclusion: The Ultimate Failure of Efforts to Control Electronic Communication | |
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Biotechnology | |
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Science, Technology, and Technoscience | |
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Hybrid CornPencillin | |
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The Birth Control Pill | |
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Conclusion | |
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Index | |