Introduction | |
Overview: Technology and History: "Kranzberg's Laws" | |
Technology and the West Through Britain's Industrial Revolution (To Ca. 1850) | |
Technology in the Preindustrial West | |
The First Technological Revolution and Its Lessons | |
Greek Catapults and Catapult Technology: Science, Technology, and War in the Ancient World | |
The Technical Act: The Act of Invention: Causes, Contexts, Continuities and Consequences | |
Air Pollution and Fuel Crises in Preindustrial London, 1250-1650 | |
The Replacement of the Longbow by Firearms in the English Army | |
On the Social Explanation of Technical Change: The Case of the Portuguese Maritime Expansion | |
Muskets and Pendulums | |
Leonhard Euler, and the Ballistics Revolution | |
The Philosophy of Luddism: The Case of the West of England Woolen Workers, ca. 1790-1809 | |
Roads, Railways, and Canals: Technical Choices in 19th-Century Britain | |
The Expansion and Diffusion of Western Industrial Technology (Ca. 1850 to Present) | |
Technology and the Industrial West | |
Economic Development and the Transfer in Technology: Some Historical Perspectives | |
The Weapons of the West: Military Technology and Modernization in 19th-Century China and Japan | |
The "Industrial Revolution" in the Home: Household Technology and Social Change in the 20th Century Ruth | |
The Development of the Diesel Engine | |
The Emergence of Basic Research in the Bell Telephone System, 1875-1915 | |
Flexibility and Mass Production at War: Aircraft Manufacture in Britain, the United States, and Germany, 1939-1945 | |
Spage-Age Europe: Gaullism, Euro-Gaullism, and the American Dilemma | |
Nuclear Power and the Environment: The Atomic Energy Commission and Thermal Pollution, 1965-1971 | |
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