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HIST 4171: Technology and Society
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HIST 4171: Technology and Society
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Selected E-books
The American Way of Bombing
by
Matthew Evangelista (Editor); Henry Shue (Editor); Tami Davis Biddle
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0801479347
Publication Date: 2014
Ancient Engineers' Inventions
by
Cesare Rossi; Flavio Russo; Ferruccio Russo
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 904812252X
Publication Date: 2009
Ancient Water Technologies
by
L. Mays (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9048186315
Publication Date: 2010
Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity
by
Reviel Netz
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0819569593
Publication Date: 2009
Blazing the Trail: The Early History Of Spacecraft And Rocketry
by
Mike Gruntman
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 156347705X
Publication Date: 2004
The Columbia History of American Television
by
Gary Edgerton
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0231121652
Publication Date: 2009
Computer: A History of the Information Machine
by
Martin Campbell-Kelly; William Aspray; Nathan Ensmenger; Jeffrey R. Yost
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0813345901
Publication Date: 2013
Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact
by
Vaclav Smil
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0195168747
Publication Date: 2005
Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer--and the Century-long Search to Discover Its Secrets
by
Jo Marchant
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0306818612
Publication Date: 2010
Dew of Death: The Story of Lewisite, America's World War I Weapon of Mass Destruction
by
Joel A. Vilensky; Richard Butler (Foreword by); Pandy R. Sinish (As told to)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0253346126
Publication Date: 2005
Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life
by
Tom Lewis
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0801478227
Publication Date: 2013
Eisenhower's Sputnik Moment: The Race for Space and World Prestige
by
Yanek Mieczkowski
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0801451507
Publication Date: 2013
Empire of the Air: Aviation and the American Ascendancy
by
Jenifer Van Vleck
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0674050940
Publication Date: 2013
Energy and Civilization
by
Vaclav Smil
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0262035774
Publication Date: 2017
Engineering in Time: The Systematics of Engineering History and Its Contemporary Context
by
A. A. Harms; B. W. Baetz; R. R. Volti
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1860944337
Publication Date: 2004
Engineering the Pyramids
by
Dick Parry
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 075093414X
Publication Date: 2004
Explorations in the History of Machines and Mechanisms
by
Teun Koetsier (Editor); marco ceccarelli (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9400799446
Publication Date: 2014
Galileo's Glassworks: The Telescope and the Mirror
by
Eileen Reeves
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0674026675
Publication Date: 2008
Groundbreaking Scientific Experiments, Inventions and Discoveries of the 17th Century
by
Michael Windelspecht
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0313315019
Publication Date: 2001
A Hammer in Their Hands: A Documentary History of Technology and the African-American Experience
by
Carroll Pursell (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0262661993
Publication Date: 2006
Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World
by
Susan E. Alcock (Editor); John Bodel (Editor); Richard J. A. Talbert (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0470674253
Publication Date: 2012
The History and Science of the Manhattan Project
by
Bruce Cameron Reed
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 3642402968
Publication Date: 2013
A History of Chinese Science and Technology, Volume 1
by
Lu Yongxiang (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 3662442566
Publication Date: 2014
A History of Chinese Science and Technology, Volume 2
by
Yongxiang Lu (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 3662441659
Publication Date: 2014
A History of Chinese Science and Technology, Volume 3
by
Yongxiang Lu (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 3662441624
Publication Date: 2014
A History of Mathematics
by
Luke Hodgkin
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0199676763
Publication Date: 2013
History of Semiconductor Engineering
by
Bo Lojek
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9783540342571
Publication Date: 2006
History of Vaccine Development
by
Stanley A. Plotkin (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1441913386
Publication Date: 2011
How James Watt Invented the Copier: Forgotten Inventions of Our Great Scientists
by
René Schils
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1461408598
Publication Date: 2011
Ingenium: Five Machines That Changed the World
by
Mark Denny
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0801885868
Publication Date: 2007
Introduction to Cyber-Warfare
by
Paulo Shakarian; Jana Shakarian; Andrew Ruef
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0124078141
Publication Date: 2013
Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance
by
George Saliba
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0262516152
Publication Date: 2011
Journey to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Guidance Computer
by
Eldon C. Hall
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 156347185X
Publication Date: 1996
The Machine in America: A Social History of Technology
by
Carroll W. Pursell
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0801885795
Publication Date: 2007
The Machines of Leonardo Da Vinci and Franz Reuleaux
by
Francis C. Moon
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1402055986
Publication Date: 2007
Media Technology and Society: A History From the Telegraph to the Internet
by
Brian Winston
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 041514230X
Publication Date: 1998
Nanotechnology: Societal Implications
by
Mihail C. Roco (Editor); William S. Bainbridge (Editor)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9048171652
Publication Date: 2010
Nature Exposed: Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science
by
Jennifer Tucker
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1421410931
Publication Date: 2013
Nuclear Waste Management, Nuclear Power and Energy Choices
by
Michael R. Greenberg
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1447142306
Publication Date: 2012
Oil Culture
by
Ross Barrett (Editor); Daniel Worden (Editor); Allan Stoekl (Foreword by)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0816689741
Publication Date: 2014
Power Struggles: Scientific Authority and the Creation of Practical Electricity Before Edison
by
Michael Brian Schiffer
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0262195828
Publication Date: 2008
Pursuing Power and Light: Technology and Physics from James Watt to Albert Einstein
by
Bruce J. Hunt
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0801893593
Publication Date: 2010
The Quest for Aqua Vitae: The History and Chemistry of Alcohol from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
by
Seth C. Rasmussen
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 3319063014
Publication Date: 2014
Rail, Steam, and Speed
by
Christopher McGowan; Chris McGowan
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0231134746
Publication Date: 2004
Railway
by
George Revill
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1861898746
Publication Date: 2012
Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World
by
Lionel Casson
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0801851300
Publication Date: 1995
Signor Marconi's Magic Box
by
Gavin Weightman
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0306813785
Publication Date: 2004
Social Networks in the History of Innovation and Invention
by
Francis C. Moon
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 940077527X
Publication Date: 2013
Still the Iron Age: Iron and Steel in the Modern World
by
Vaclav Smil
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0128042338
Publication Date: 2016
Stratonauts: Pioneers Venturing into the Stratosphere
by
Manfred "Dutch" von Ehrenfried
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 3319029002
Publication Date: 2014
The Submarine: A Cultural History from the Great War to Nuclear Combat
by
Duncan Redford
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1784530891
Publication Date: 2015
Surveying Instruments of Greece and Rome
by
M. J. T. Lewis
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0521110653
Publication Date: 2009
The Sword and the Crucible: A History of the Metallurgy of European Swords Up to the 16th Century
by
Alan Williams
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 9004227830
Publication Date: 2012
A Theory of the Drone
by
Grégoire Chamayou
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 1595589759
Publication Date: 2015
Tomorrow's Energy: Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, and the Prospects for a Cleaner Planet
by
Peter Hoffmann; Byron L. Dorgan (Foreword by)
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0262516950
Publication Date: 2012
Transforming Matter: A History of Chemistry from Alchemy to the Buckyball
by
Trevor H. Levere
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0801866103
Publication Date: 2001
Water Engineering in the Ancient World
by
Charles R. Ortloff
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0199239096
Publication Date: 2010
Water Technology in the Middle Ages
by
Roberta J. Magnusson
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 080186626X
Publication Date: 2001
Wiring the World: The Social and Cultural Creation of Global Telegraph Networks
by
Simone M. Müller
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0231174322
Publication Date: 2016
You Are Here: From the Compass to GPS, the History and Future of How We Find Ourselves
by
Hiawatha Bray
Call Number: E-book
ISBN: 0465032850
Publication Date: 2014
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