Technology And The West - 97 edition

Introduction by Terry S. Reynolds, Stephen H. Cutcliffe.
Overview: Technology and History: "Kranzberg's Laws", Melvin Kranzberg

Technology and the West Through Britain's Industrial Revolution (To Ca. 1850)

1. Technology in the Preindustrial West, Terry S. Reynolds, Stephen H. Cutcliffe.
2. The First Technological Revolution and Its Lessons, Peter F. Drucker
3. Greek Catapults and Catapult Technology: Science, Technology, and War in the Ancient World, Barton C. Hacker
4. The Technical Act: The Act of Invention: Causes, Contexts, Continuities and Consequences, Lynn White, Jr
5. Air Pollution and Fuel Crises in Preindustrial London, 1250-1650, William H. Te Brake
6. The Replacement of the Longbow by Firearms in the English Army, Thomas Esper
7. On the Social Explanation of Technical Change: The Case of the Portuguese Maritime Expansion, John Law
8. Muskets and Pendulums: Benjamin Robins, Leonhard Euler, and the Ballistics Revolution, Brett D. Steele
9. The Philosophy of Luddism: The Case of the West of England Woolen Workers, ca. 1790-1809, Adrian J. Randall
10. Roads, Railways, and Canals: Technical Choices in 19th-Century Britain, Francis T. Evans

The Expansion and Diffusion of Western Industrial Technology (Ca. 1850 to Present)

1. Technology and the Industrial West, Terry S. Reynolds, Stephen H. Cutcliffe.
2. Economic Development and the Transfer in Technology: Some Historical Perspectives, Nathan Rosenberg
3. The Weapons of the West: Military Technology and Modernization in 19th-Century China and Japan, Barton C. Hacker
4. The "Industrial Revolution" in the Home: Household Technology and Social Change in the 20th Century, Ruth Schwartz Cowan
5. The Development of the Diesel Engine, Lynwood Bryant
6. The Emergence of Basic Research in the Bell Telephone System, 1875-1915, Lillian Hoddeson
7. Flexibility and Mass Production at War: Aircraft Manufacture in Britain, the United States, and Germany, 1939-1945, Jonathan Zeitlin
8. Spage-Age Europe: Gaullism, Euro-Gaullism, and the American Dilemma, Walter A. McDougall
9. Nuclear Power and the Environment: The Atomic Energy Commission and Thermal Pollution, 1965-1971, J. Samuel Walker