A Companion to American Technology

ISBN: 9781405179942 出版年：2008 页码：480 Carroll Pursell Wiley

Notes on Contributors. Introduction. Carroll Pursell. PART I: BEGINNINGS . 1 Technology in Colonial North America: Robert B. Gordon . 2. The American Industrial Revolution: James C. Williams . PART II: SITES OF PRODUCTION. 3. The Technology of Production: Carroll Pursell . 4. Technology and Agriculture in 20th century America: Deborah Fitzgerald . 5. House and Home: Gail Cooper . 6. The City and Technology: Joel A. Tarr . 7. Technology in Environment: Betsy Mendelsohn . 8. Government and Technology: Carroll Pursell . 9. Medicine and Technology: James M. Edmonson . PART III: SITES OF CONTEST. 10. The North American 'Body-Machine' Complex: Chris Hables Gray . 11. Gender and Technology: Rebecca Herzig . 12. Labor and Technology: Arwen P. Mohun . PART IV: TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS . 13. The Automotive Transportation System: Cars And Highway in 20th-Century America: Bruce E. Seely . 14. Airplanes: Roger E. Bilstein . 15. Technology in Space: Roger D. Launius . 16. Nuclear Technology: Josh Silverman . 17. Television: Douglas Gomery . 18. Computers and the Internet: Braiding Irony, Paradox, and Possibility: Jeffrey R. Yost . PART V: PRODUCING AND READING TECHNOLOGICAL CULTURE . 19. The Profession of Engineering in America: Bruce Sinclair . 20. Popular Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century: Molly W. Berger . 21. Art and Technology: Henry Adams . 22. Critics of Technology: David E. Nye . Index