Technology and American History

Introduction
Stephen H. Cutcliffe, Terry S. Reynolds.
Technology in American Context
Stephen H. Cutcliffe, 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
Richard H. Schallenberg, 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 Fitzgerald
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, Adam H. Serchuk.