Technology in America :  a history of individuals and ideas / 
edited by Carroll W. Pursell, Jr. 
 - Cambridge, Mass. :  MIT Press,  c1981. 
 - xi, 264 p. :  ill. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Bibliography: p. 241-248. 
<br/><br/>Technology in America : an introduction / Carroll W. Pursell, Jr<br/>The artisan during America's wooden age / Brooke Hindle<br/>Thomas Jefferson and a democratic technology / Hugo A. Meier<br/>Benjamin Henry Latrobe and the transfer of technology / Darwin H. Stapleton<br/>Eli Whitney and the American system of manufacturing / Merritt Roe Smith<br/>Thomas P. Jones and the evolution of technical education / Bruce Sinclair<br/>Cyrus Hall McCormick and the mechanization of agriculture / Carroll W. Pursell, Jr<br/>James Buchanan Eads : the engineer as entrepreneur / John A. Kouwenhoven<br/>James B. Francis and the rise of scientific technology / Edwin T. Layton, Jr<br/>Alexander Graham Bell and the conquest of solitude / Robert V. Bruce<br/>Thomas Alva Edison and the rise of electricity / Thomas Parke Hughes<br/>George Eastman and the coming of industrial research in America / Reese V. Jenkins. Ellen Swallow Richards : technology and women / Ruth Schwartz Cowan<br/>Gifford Pinchot and the American conservation movement / Samuel P. Hays<br/>Frederick Winslow Taylor and scientific management / Gail Cooper<br/>Henry Ford and the triumph of the automobile / James J. Flink<br/>Peter L. Jensen and the amplification of sound / W. David Lewis<br/>Charles A. Lindbergh : his flight and the American ideal / John Wiliam Ward<br/>Keaton and Chaplin : the silent film's response to technology / George Basalla<br/>Morris L. Cooke and energy for America / Jean Christie<br/>Enrico Fermi and the development of nuclear power / Lawrence Badash<br/>Robert H. Goddard and the origins of space flight / Barton C. Hacker<br/>Frederick E. Terman and the rise of Silicon Valley / James C. Williams 
<br/><br/> This is a collection of essays focusing on the spread and elaboration of American technology, and on the men and women who shaped it. Beginning with technology of America's Wooden Age, the authors discuss Jefferson's perception of the role of technology in a democratic society; the American System of Manufactures of Eli Whitney and others; Thomas P. Jones and the institutionalization of industrialization in educational reforms; McCormick and the spread of industrialization to agriculture; and James Eads and the rise of transportation networks. ISBN 0-262-66049-0 (pbk.): $9.95 
<br/><br/><br/>eng. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0262660490  TZS 1,400/= 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Technology--United States
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>609.73 TEC