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  • - American Household Plumbing, 1840-1890
    af Maureen Ogle
    379,95 kr.

    She examines advancements in water-supply and waste-management technology, the architectural considerations these amenities entailed, and the scientific approach to sanitation that began to emerge by century's end.

  • - Shipboard Command and Control in the U.S. Navy, from Mobile Bay to Okinawa
    af Timothy S. (Assistant Professor Wolters
    562,95 kr.

    He argues that the human-machine systems used to coordinate forces were as critical to naval successes in World War II as the ships and commanders more familiar to historians.

  • - Paul Revere and the Growth of American Enterprise
    af Robert (Associate Professor of the History of Science and Technology Martello
    331,95 kr.

    Original and well told, this account argues that the greatest patriotic contribution of America's Midnight Rider was his work in helping the nation develop from a craft to an industrial economy.

  • - Inventor and Engineer
    af Thomas Parker Hughes
    502,95 kr.

    This is a biography of a major American inventor. Elmer Sperry contributed greatly to the technological changes occurring between 1880 and 1930. Characteristic of his various inventions were feedback controls which have made automation a fact of life.

  • - The Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1835-1955
    af Laurence F. Gross
    397,95 kr.

    The increased textile demands of World War II, Gross explains, only forestalled the mills' inevitable demise.

  • af Susan J. (University of Michigan) Douglas
    410,95 kr.

    Douglas reveals the origins of a corporate media system that today dominates the content and form of American communication.

  • - Gunpowder, Technology, and Tactics
    af Bert S. Hall
    389,95 kr.

    Hall details the efforts of armorers across Europe as they experimented with a variety of gunpowder recipes and gunsmithing techniques, and he examines the integration of new weapons into the existing structure of European warfare.

  • - Analytical Studies from Aeronautical History
    af Walter G. Vincenti
    369,95 kr.

    To solve their design problems, engineers draw on a vast body of knowledge about how things work. Examining previously unstudied historical cases, this author shows how engineering knowledge is obtained and presents a model to help explain the growth of such knowledge.

  • - Technology and the American Photographic Industry, 1839-1925
    af Reese V. Jenkins
    545,95 kr.

    Images and Enterprise vividly portrays the emergence of cinematography in its relationship to traditional photography and reveals the growing importance of institutionalized research, as Eastman Kodak and the other American and European photographic materials manufacturers strove to develop commercially practical color photography.

  • - Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986
    af Arthur L. (University of Minnesota) Norberg
    468,95 kr.

    And they show how, by the 1990s, the research results had been assimilated into systems both for the military and for civilian society.

  • - A History of the Vertical Water Wheel
    af Terry S. (Michigan Technological University) Reynolds
    437,95 kr.

    Spanning more than 2000 years, Terry Reynolds's account follows the progression of this labor-saving device from Asia to the Middle East, Europe, and America-covering the evolution of the water wheel itself, the development of dams and reservoirs, and the applications of water power.

  • - Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880-1940
    af Arwen P. (University of Delaware) Mohun
    373,95 kr.

    The British-American comparison further reveals differences owing to culture, regulation, and social structure as well as the unexpected transatlantic character of this seemingly localized business.

  • af Otto Mayr
    397,95 kr.

    Otto Mayr, the director of Germany's leading technological museum, explores the relationship between machinery, technological thought, and culture. Contrasting England and the Continent, particularly in the eighteenth century, he uncovers a stikring pattern of technological metaphors applied to political systems-and lays the foundations of a new intellectual history of technology

  • - The Making of Modern America, 1865-1925
    af Thomas J. (University of Minnesota) Misa
    443,95 kr.

    A Nation of Steel offers a detailed and fascinating look at an industry that has had a profound impact on American life.

  • - Consulting on Coal and Oil in America, 1820-1890
    af Paul Lucier
    677,95 kr.

    This sweeping narrative enriches our understanding of how the rocks beneath our feet became invaluable resources for science, technology, and industry.

  • - High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America
    af David R. Meyer
    552,95 kr.

    economy.

  • - Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present
    af Thomas J. Misa
    222,95 - 707,95 kr.

    A history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industrial revolutions, as well as the more recent eras of imperialism, modernism, and global security, it evaluates what the author calls "the question of technology".

  • - Projectors, Popular Politics, and State Building in Early Modern England
    af Eric H. Ash
    455,95 - 633,95 kr.

    This is compelling reading for British historians, environmental scholars, historians of technology, and anyone interested in state formation in early modern Europe.

  • af David A. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Mindell
    314,95 - 537,95 kr.

  • af David Hochfelder
    382,95 - 654,95 kr.

    With this book, Hochfelder supplies us with an introduction to the early stirrings of the information age.

  • - Sustainable Design in Historical Perspective
    af Carl A. (Associate Professor Zimring
    397,95 kr.

    Raising fascinating questions of consumption, environment, and desire, Upcycling Aluminum is for anyone interested in industrial and environmental history, discard studies, engineering, product design, music history, or antiques.

  • - How Technology Won the Civil War
    af Thomas F. & Jr. Army
    320,95 - 487,95 kr.

    He reveals massive logistical operations as critical in determining the war's outcome.

  • af Robert B. Gordon
    540,95 kr.

    By mastering founding, fining, puddling, or bloom smelting, ironworkers gained a degree of control over their lives not easily attained by others.

  • - "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction
    af Rachel P. (Cornell University) Maines
    304,95 kr.

    In The Technology of Orgasm, Rachel Maines offers readers a stimulating, surprising, and often humorous account of hysteria and its treatment throughout the ages, focusing on the development, use, and fall into disrepute of the vibrator as a legitimate medical device.

  • - The Hot Rod Industry in America, 1915-1990
    af David N. (Assistant Professor of History Lucsko
    542,95 kr.

    Lucsko offers a rich and heretofore untold account of the culture and technology of the high-performance automotive aftermarket in the United States, offering a fresh perspective on the history of the automobile in America.

  • af William M. McBride
    472,95 - 582,95 kr.

    The evolution and persistence of the "battleship navy,he argues, offer direct insight into the dominance of the aircraft-carrier paradigm after 1945 and into the twenty-first century.

  • - Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865
    af Mark R. (Associate Professor Wilson
    356,95 kr.

    Students of the American Civil War will welcome this fresh study of military-industrial production and procurement on the home front-long an obscure topic.

  • - The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine
    af Donald Kettl & Jonathan Coopersmith
    367,95 - 537,95 kr.

    Tells the history of the facsimile machine. The author recounts the multigenerational, multinational history of that device from its origins to its workplace glory days, in the process revealing how it helped create the accelerated communications, information flow, and vibrant visual culture that characterize our contemporary world.

  • - A Social History of the Lie Detector
    af Geoffrey C. (Manchester Metropolitan University) Bunn
    375,95 kr.

    He examines how the machine emerged as a technology of truth, transporting readers back to the obscure origins of criminology itself, ultimately concluding that the lie detector owes as much to popular culture as it does to factual science.

  • - Creating an American Commodity, 1617-1937
    af Barbara M. Hahn
    208,95 - 607,95 kr.

    Combining economic theory with the history of technology, Making Tobacco Bright revises several narratives in American history, from colonial staple-crop agriculture to the origins of the tobacco industry to the rise of identity politics in the twentieth century.

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