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Books in the Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology series

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  • - American Household Plumbing, 1840-1890
    by Maureen Ogle
    £25.99

    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
    by Timothy S. (Assistant Professor Wolters
    £44.49

    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
    by Robert (Associate Professor of the History of Science and Technology Martello
    £26.49

    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
    by Thomas Parker Hughes
    £31.99

    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
    by Laurence F. Gross
    £25.99

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

  • by Susan J. (University of Michigan) Douglas
    £26.49

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

  • - Gunpowder, Technology, and Tactics
    by Bert S. Hall
    £25.99

    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.

  • - Technology and the American Photographic Industry, 1839-1925
    by Reese V. Jenkins
    £34.99

    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
    by Arthur L. (University of Minnesota) Norberg
    £30.99

    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
    by Terry S. (Michigan Technological University) Reynolds
    £27.99

    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
    by Arwen P. (University of Delaware) Mohun
    £24.49

    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.

  • by Otto Mayr
    £25.99

    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
    by Thomas J. (University of Minnesota) Misa
    £29.49

    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
    by Paul Lucier
    £52.49

    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
    by David R. Meyer
    £43.49

    economy.

  • - Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present
    by Thomas J. Misa
    £19.49 - 26.49

    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
    by Eric H. Ash
    £29.99 - 41.99

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

  • by David A. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Mindell
    £41.99

  • by David Hochfelder
    £24.49 - 44.49

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

  • - Sustainable Design in Historical Perspective
    by Carl A. (Associate Professor Zimring
    £31.49

    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
    by Thomas F. & Jr. Army
    £20.99 - 38.49

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

  • - The Hot Rod Industry in America, 1915-1990
    by David N. (Assistant Professor of History Lucsko
    £42.49

    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.

  • by William M. McBride
    £29.99 - 45.49

    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
    by Mark R. (Associate Professor Wilson
    £23.49

    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
    by Donald Kettl & Jonathan Coopersmith
    £24.49 - 41.99

    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
    by Geoffrey C. (Manchester Metropolitan University) Bunn
    £29.99

    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
    by Barbara M. Hahn
    £17.99 - 47.49

    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.

  • - Research Labs, Start-up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology
    by Ross Knox Bassett
    £24.49 - 45.49

    To the Digital Age offers a captivating account of the intricate R & D process behind a technological device that transformed modern society.

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