A Companion to American Technology

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