Technology in American context / Stephen H. Cutcliffe and Terry S. Reynolds -- Brandywine borrowings from European technology / Norman B. Wilkinson -- "Drive that branch": Samuel Slater, the power loom, and the writing of America's textile history / James L. Conrad Jr. -- Raw materials supply and technological change in the American charcoal iron industry / ichard H. Schallenberg and David A. Ault -- Bursting boilers and the federal power / John G. Burke -- Who turned the mechanical ideal into mechanical reality? / Robert B. Gordon -- From iron to steel: the recasting of the Jones and Laughlins workforce between 1885 and 1896 / David Jardini -- Technology and the market: George Eastman and the origins of mass amateur photography / Reese V. Jenkins -- A new role for professional scientists in industry: industrial research at General Electric, 1900-1916 / George Wise -- Custom design, engineering guarantees, and unpatentable data: the air conditioning industry, 1902-1935 / Gail Cooper -- "Touch someone":

the telephone industry discovers sociability / Claude S. Fischer-- Farmers deskilled: hybrid corn and farmers' work / Deborah F. Gerald --- The "industrial revolution" in the home: household technology and social change in the 20th century / Ruth Schwartz Cowan -- Research, engineering, and science in American engineering colleges, 1900-1960 / Bruce Seely -- Technology in the seamless web: "success" and "failure" in the history of the electron microscope / Gregory C. Kunkle -- Momentum shifts in the American electric utility system: catastrophic change: or no change at all? / Richard F. Hirsh and Adam H Serchuk

Anthology of essays from Technology and culture

Includes bibliographical references and index

Mode of access: Internet