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Buchanan, Robert A. The history of technology. In The New Encyclopaedia
Britannica. 15th ed. v. 28. Chicago, Encyclopaedia
Britannica, c1998. p. 440-472. Hall, A. Rupert. Technology. In The Encyclopedia Americana.
International ed. v. 26. Danbury, Conn., Grolier, c2000. p. 357-378.
Subject headings used by the Library of Congress, under which books on the history of technology can be located in most card, book, and online catalogs, include the following:
Daumas, Maurice, ed. A history of technology & invention; progress
through the ages. Translated by Eileen B. Hennessy. New York,
Crown Publishers, c1969-1979. 3 v. Derry, T. K. (Thomas Kingston), and Trevor I. Williams. A short
history of technology from the earliest times to A.D. 1900.
New York, Oxford University Press, 1961, c1960. 782 p. Garrison, Ervan G. A history of engineering and technology:
artful methods. 2nd ed. Boca Raton, Fla., CRC Press,
1999. 347 p. The History of techniques. New York, Gordon and Breach
Science Publishers, c1986. 2 v. (1410 p.) Singer, Charles Joseph, and others, eds. A history of technology.
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1954-1984. 8 v. Technology in Western civilization. Edited by Melvin Kranzberg
and Carroll W. Pursell, Jr. New York, Oxford University Press, 1967.
2 v. Williams, Trevor Illtyd. A history of invention: from stone
axes to silicon chips. Updated & revised by William E. Schaaf,
Jr. with Arianne E. Burnette. New York, Checkmark Books, c2000.
367 p.
TITLES ABOUT PARTICULAR PERIODS OR COUNTRIES Bishop, John Leander. A history of American manufactures from
1608 to 1860. 3rd ed., rev. and enl. New York, A.
M. Kelly, 1966. 3 v. (Library of early American business and industry,
1) Early American technology: making and doing things from the
colonial era to 1850. Edited by Judith A. McGaw. Chapel Hill,
Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture,
Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,
c1994. 482 p. Forbes, Robert James. Studies in ancient technology. Leiden,
E. J. Brill, 1964- Label mounted on t.p. of v. 1 has imprint: W.S.
Heinman, New York. Vol. 1, 3, 5, 7: 2nd ed.; v. 2, 4,
6, 9: 2nd rev. ed. Gille, Bertrand. Engineers of the Renaissance. Cambridge,
Mass., MIT Press, 1966. 254 p. Hindle, Brooke, and Steven Lubar. Engines of change: the American
industrial revolution, 1790-1860. Washington, Smithsonian Institution
Press, c1986. 309 p. Hodges, Henry. Technology in the ancient world. With drawings
by Judith Newcomer. New York, Knopf, 1970. 287 p. Humphrey, John William, John P. Oleson, and Andrew N. Sherwood.
Greek and Roman technology: a sourcebook: annotated translations
of Greek and Latin texts and documents. London, New York, Routledge,
1998. 623 p. Marcus, Alan I., and Howard P. Segal. Technology in America:
a brief history. 2nd ed. Fort Worth, Harcourt Brace
College Publishers, c1999. 400 p. Mowery, David C., and Nathan Rosenberg. Paths of innovation:
technological change in 20th century America. Cambridge,
Eng., New York, Cambridge University Press, 1998. 214 p. Needham, Joseph. Science and civilisation in China. Cambridge,
Eng., University Press, 1954- . Sinclair, Bruce, Norman R. Ball, and James O. Peterson, comps.
Let us be honest and modest: technology and society in Canadian
history. Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1974. 309 p. Technology in Australia, 1788-1988: a condensed history of
Australian technological innovation and adaptation during the first
two hundred years. Compiled by Fellows of the Australian Academy
of Technological Sciences and Engineering. Melbourne, Australian
Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, 1988. 1017 p.
White, K. D. Greek and Roman technology. Ithaca, N.Y.,
Cornell University Press, 1984. 272 p. White, Lynn Townsend, Jr. Medieval religion and technology:
collected essays. Berkeley, University of California Press,
c1978. 360 p. (Publications of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance
Studies, UCLA, 13) Williams, Trevor Illtyd. A short history of twentieth-century
technology c. 1900-c. 1950. Oxford (Oxfordshire), Clarendon
Press; New York, Oxford University Press, 1982. 411 p. American Public Works Association. History of public works
in the United States, 1776-1976. Editor, Ellis L. Armstrong;
associate editors, Michael C. Robinson, Suellen M. Hoy. Chicago,
The Association, c1976. 736 p. Bilstein, Roger E. The American aerospace industry: from workshop
to global enterprise. New York, Twayne Publishers, c1996. 280
p. Brockmann, R. John. From millwrights to shipwrights to the
twenty-first century: explorations in a history of technical communication
in the United States. Cresskill, N.J., Hampton Press, c1998.
464 p. Campbell-Kelly, Martin, and William Aspray. Computer: a history
of the information machine. New York, Basic Books, c1996. 342
p. Condit, Carl W. American building: materials and techniques
from the first colonial settlements to the present. 2nd
ed. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1982. 329 p., 88 p. of
plates (The Chicago history of American civilization, CHAC 25) Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. A social history of American technology.
New York, Oxford University Press, 1997. 342 p. Gordon, Robert B. (Robert Boyd), and Patrick M. Malone. The
texture of industry: an archaeological view of the industrialization
of North America. New York, Oxford University Press, 1994.
442 p. Hounshell, David A. From the American system to mass production,
1800-1932: the development of manufacturing technology in the United
States. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, c1984. 411
p. (Studies in industry and society, 4) Hunter, Louis C. A history of industrial power in the United
States, 1780-1930. Charlottesville, Published for the Eleutherian
Mills-Hagley Foundation by the University Press of Virginia, 1979-1985.
2 v. Lay, M. G. (Maxwell G.) Ways of the world: a history of the
world's roads and of the vehicles that used them. New Brunswick,
N. J., Rutgers University Press, 1992. 401 p. MacKeand, J. C. B. Sparks and flames: ignition in engines:
an historical approach. Montchanin, Del., Tyndar Press, c1997.
168 p. Material culture of the wooden age. Edited by Brooke Hindle.
Tarrytown, N.Y., Sleepy Hollow Press, c1981. 394 p. Military enterprise and technological change: perspectives
on the American experience. Edited by Merritt Roe Smith. Cambridge,
Mass., MIT Press, c1985. 391 p. Nye, David E. Consuming power: a social history of American
energies. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, c1998. 331 p. Palmer, Marilyn, and Peter Neaverson. Industrial archaeology:
principles and practice. London, New York, Routledge, 1998.
180 p. Petulla, Joseph M. American environmental history. 2nd
ed. Columbus, Merrill Pub. Co., c1988. 444 p. Ryder, John Douglas, and Donald G. Fink. Engineers & electrons:
a century of electrical progress. New York, IEEE Press, c1984.
251 p. Smith, Norman Alfred Fisher. A history of dams. London,
P. Davies, 1971. 279 p. White, John H., Jr. A history of the American locomotive: its
development, 1830-1880. New York, Dover Publications, 1979,
c1968. 504 p.
Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering. New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1852. 2 v. T9.A65 <SciRR> Berlow, Lawrence H. The reference guide to famous engineering
landmarks of the world: bridges, tunnels, dams, roads, and other
structures. Phoenix, Ariz., Oryx Press, 1998. 250 p. Biographical dictionary of the history of technology.
Edited by Lance Day and Ian McNeil. London, New York, Routledge,
1996. 844 p. The Blackwell encyclopedia of industrial archaeology.
Edited by Barrie Trinder; editorial board, Axel Fohl and others.
Oxford, Eng., Cambridge, Mass., Blackwell, 1992. 964 p. Bruno, Leonard C. Science & technology firsts. Detroit,
Gale Research, c1997. 636 p. Carter, Ernest Frank. Dictionary of inventions and discoveries.
2nd rev. ed. London, Muller, 1974. 208 p. A Diderot pictorial encyclopedia of trades and industry: manufacturing
and the technical arts in plates selected from "L'Encyclopédie,
ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts, et des métiers"
of Denis Diderot. Edited with an introduction and notes by
Charles C. Gillispie. New York, Dover Publications, 1993. 2 v. History of science and technology: a sampler of centers and
collections of distinction. Cynthia A. Steinke, editor. New
York, Haworth Press, c1994. 124 p. Hudson, Kenneth. A guide to the industrial archaeology of Europe.
Bath, Adams and Dart, 1971. 186 p., 56 plates. Landmarks in mechanical engineering. ASME International
History and Heritage. West Lafayette, Ind., Purdue University Press,
c1997. 364 p. Leuschner, Fritz. Treasures of technology in museums of the
world. Translated from the German by Silvia Furness. Leipzig,
Edition Leipzig, c1983. 219 p. Sande, Theodore Anton. Industrial archeology: a new look at
the American heritage. Brattleboro, Vt., S. Greene Press, c1976.
152 p. Schodek, Daniel L. Landmarks in American civil engineering.
Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, c1987. 383 p. The Timetable of technology. Consultants and contributors,
G. W. A. Dummer and others. New York, Hearst Books, c1982. 240 p.
United States. Congress. The new American state papers: science
and technology. Introd. by Nathan Reingold. Wilmington, Del.,
Scholarly Resources, 1973. 14 v. Weitzman, David L. Traces of the past: a field guide to industrial
archaeology. New York, Scribner, 1980. 229 p.
Bridge to the future: a centennial celebration of the Brooklyn
Bridge. Edited by Margaret Latimer, Brooke Hindle, and Melvin
Kranzberg. New York, New York Academy of Sciences, 1984. 355 p. (Annals
of the New York Academy of Sciences, v. 424) History and heritage of coastal engineering: a collection of
papers on the history of coastal engineering in countries hosting
the international Coastal Engineering Conference 1950-1996.
Prepared under the auspices of the Coastal Engineering Research
Council of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Edited by Nicholas
C. Kraus. New York, American Society of Civil Engineers, c1996.
603 p. International Conference on the History of Civil and Commercial
Aviation (1992: Lucerne, Switzerland). From airships to airbus:
the history of civil and commercial aviation. Washington, Smithsonian
Institution Press, c1995. 2 v. Symposium ICOHTEC (10th, Smolenice, Czechoslovakia,
1982). Sources for the history of technology: national comparisons:
(conference papers). Tenth Symposium ICOHTEC, Smolenice, 1982,
Czechoslovakia. Editor, Lubos Novy. Praha, Institute of Czechoslovak
and General History CSAS, 1983. 541 p. (Acta historiae rerum naturalium
nec non technicarum. Special issue, 17. Czechoslovak studies in
the history of science. Special issue, 17) Yankee enterprise, the rise of the American system of manufactures:
a symposium. Sponsored by the United States Chamber of Commerce,
held at the Dibner Rare Book Library, National Museum of American
History, Smithsonian Institution. Otto Mayr and Robert C. Post,
editors. Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981. 236 p.
Crisman, Kevin James, and Arthur B. Cohn. When horses walked on
water: horse-powered ferries in nineteenth-century America. Washington,
Smithsonian Institution Press, c1998. 292 p. Historic America: buildings, structures, and sites.
Recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey and the Historic
American Engineering Record; checklist compiled by Alicia Stamm;
essays edited by C. Ford Peatross. Washington, Library of Congress,
1983. 708 p. Learning from things: method and theory of material
culture studies. Edited by W. David Kingery. Washington, Smithsonian
Institution Press, c1996. 262 p. Merzbach, Uta C. Georg Scheutz and the first printing
calculator. Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1977.
74 p. (Smithsonian studies in history and technology, no. 36) Oliver, Smith Hempstone, and Donald H. Berkebile.
Wheels and wheeling; the Smithsonian cycle collection. Washington,
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1974. 104 p. (Smithsonian studies
in history and technology, no. 24) United States. Museum of History and Technology. Contributions.
Papers 1-72. Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1959-68. (United
States. National Museum. Bulletin) Vogel, Robert M. Building Brooklyn Bridge: the
design and construction, 1867-1883. Washington, National Museum
of American History, Smithsonian Institution, 1983. 28 p. Worthington, William E., Jr. Beyond the city lights:
American domestic gas lighting systems. Washington, Smithsonian
Institution, 1985. 23 p.
Technical reports and other types of literature are indexed under Histories or History in the guides listed below. Reports are available in the microform collection of the Science Reading Room. Technical reports are sold by the National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Virginia 22161; telephone: (800) 553-6847.
Dissertations can be identified by using online resources or the following indexes located in the Main Reading Room. Consult any reference librarian about options. Some dissertations may be available in full text through electronic resources on public terminals at the Library of Congress.
Holbrook, Daniel Ulrik. Technical diversity and
technological change in the American semiconductor industry, 1952-1965.
Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms, 1999. 431 p. Major, Claire Corinne Howell. From magic lanterns
to teaching machines: myths and symbols of the instructional technology
revolution in American higher education. Ann Arbor, Mich., University
Microfilms, 1999. 187 p. Winant, Edward Howard. The hydraulics revolution:
science and technical design of urban water supply in the Enlightenment
(eighteenth century). Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms,
1996. 282 p.
Analytical bibliography of the history of engineering
and applied science. In Newcomen Society for the Study of the
History of Engineering and Technology, London. Transactions,
v. 2, 1921/1922: 141-155; v. 3, 1922/1923: 122-127; v. 4, 1923/1924:
135-140; v. 5, 1924/1925: 100-124; v. 6, 1925/1926: 203-221; v.
7, 1926/1927: 132-145; v. 8, 1927/1928: 161-183; v. 9, 1928/1929:
113-133; v. 10, 1929/1930: 121-134; v. 11, 1930/1931: 171-187; v.
12, 1931/1932: 112-118; v. 13, 1932/1933: 187-195; v. 14, 1933/1934:
213-225; v. 15, 1934/1935: 233-248; v. 16, 1935/1936: 161-178; v.
17, 1936/1937: 221-231; v. 18, 1937/1938: 281-294; v. 19, 1938/1939:
269-279; v. 20, 1939/1940: 161-173; v. 21, 1940/1941: 158-173; v.
22, 1941/1942: 188-203; v. 25, 1945/1947: 211-221. Bindocci, Cynthia Gay. Women and technology: an
annotated bibliography. New York, Garland Pub., 1993. 229 p.
(Women's history and culture, v. 7) (Garland reference library of
social science, v. 517) Current bibliography in the history of technology.
1990- Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1992- Cutliffe, Stephen H., Judith A. Mistichelli, and Christine
M. Roysdon. Technology and values in American civilization: a guide
to information sources. Detroit, Mich., Gale Research Co., c1980.
704 p. (Gale information guide library. American studies information
guide series, v. 9) Ferguson, Eugene S. Bibliography of the history
of technology. Cambridge, Mass., Society for the History of
Technology, 1968. 347 p. (Society for the History of Technology.
Monograph series, v. 5) Isis cumulative bibliography; a bibliography of
the history of science formed from Isis critical bibliographies
1-90, 1913-65. Edited by Magda Whitrow. Chairman of editorial
committee: I. Bernard Cohen. London, Mansell, in conjunction with
the History of Science Society, 1971-1984. 6 v. Kren, Claudia. Medieval science and technology:
a selected, annotated bibliography. New York, Garland Pub.,
1985. 369 p. (Bibliographies of the history of science and technology,
v. 11) (Garland reference library of the humanities, v. 494) Multhauf, Robert P. The history of chemical technology:
an annotated bibliography. New York, Garland Pub., 1984. 299
p. (Bibliographies of the history of science and technology, v.
5) (Garland reference library of the humanities, v. 348) Poole, Mary Elizabeth, comp. "History" references
from the Industrial arts index, 1913-1957. Raleigh, D. H. Hill
Library, North Carolina State College, 1958. 119 leaves. Rink, Evald. Technical Americana: a checklist of
technical publications printed before 1831. Sponsored by the
Eleutherian Mills Historical Library. Millwood, N.Y., Kraus International
Publications, c1981. 776 p. Roos, Arnold E. A bibliography of the history of
Canadian science and technology. Une bibliographie de l'histoire
de la science et de la technologie au Canada. Ottawa, Ont.,
Canadian Science and Technology Historical Association, 1995. 272
p. Rothenberg, Marc. The history of science and technology
in the United States: a critical and selective bibliography.
New York, Garland Pub., 1982-1993. 2 v. (Bibliographies of the history
of science and technology, v. 2, 17) (Garland reference library
of the humanities, v. 308, 815) Shiers, George, and May Shiers. Early television:
a bibliographic guide to 1940. New York, Garland Pub., 1997.
616 p. (Garland reference library of social science, v. 582) Stapleton, Darwin H. The history of civil engineering
since 1600: an annotated bibliography. With the assistance of
Roger L. Shumaker. New York, Garland Pub., 1986. 232 p. (Bibliographies
of the history of science and technology, v. 14) (Garland reference
library of the humanities, v. 519)
Abstracting and indexing services that index relevant journal articles and other literature are listed below. Some suggested terms for searching are "Technology," "Technology--History," "Engineering--History," "History," or more specific headings, depending upon the topic of interest. Many of the titles may now be available in electronic format. Consult a reference librarian for the location and format of abstracting and indexing services.
Brown, John K. Design plans, working drawings, national
styles: engineering practice in Great Britain and the United States,
1775-1945. Technology and culture, v. 41, Apr. 2000: 195-238.
Chiles, James R. The road to radar. American heritage
of invention & technology, v. 2, spring 1987: 24-30. Clément, Pierre. Photography and the development of
silver technology. Impact of science on society, no. 168,
1992: 299-314. Demer, John H. How tinsmiths used their tools. The
Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association, Inc.,
v. 26, Dec. 1973: 49-57. Evans, Francis T. Roads, railways, and canals: technical
choices in 19th-century Britain. Technology and culture,
v. 22, Jan. 1981: 1-34. Livingston, G. E. Foodservice: older than Methuselah.
Food technology, v. 44, July 1990: 54, 56, 58-59. Lohof, Bruce A. The service station in America: the
evolution of a vernacular form. Industrial archaeology, v.
11, May 1974: 1-13. Mass, William, and Andrew Robertson. From textiles
to automobiles: mechanical and organizational innovation in the
Toyoda enterprises, 1895-1933. Business and economic history,
v. 25, winter 1996: 1-37. Meyer-Thurow, Georg. The industrialization of invention:
a case study from the German chemical industry. Isis, v.
73, Sept. 1982: 363-381. Nagengast, Bernard A. History repeating itself–"modern"
innovations in HVAC&R technology that appeared long ago. ASHRAE
transactions, v. 101, pt. 1, 1995: 753-757. Norberg, Arthur L. High-technology calculation in
the early 20th century: punched card machinery in business
and government. Technology and culture, v. 31, Oct. 1990:
753-779. Pitts, Eugene, III, and Walter I. Seigal. Fifty years
of TV. Audio, v. 65, July 1981: 28-32. Reardon-Anderson, James. Chemical industry in China,
1860-1949. Osiris, 2nd ser., v. 2, 1986: 177-224.
Staudenmaier, John M. Recent trends in the history
of technology. The American historical review, v. 95, June
1990: 715-725. Stine, Jeffrey K., and Joel A. Tarr. At the intersection
of histories: technology and the environment. Technology and
culture, v. 39, Oct. 1998: 601-640. Tarr, Joel A., and others. Water and wastes: a retrospective
assessment of wastewater technology in the United States, 1800-1932.
Technology and culture, v. 25, Apr. 1984: 226-263. Wermiel, Sara. The development of fireproof construction
in Great Britain and the United States in the nineteenth century.
Construction history, v. 9, 1993: 3-26.
Selected Materials available in the Science Reading Room pamphlet boxes include the following: Bowers, Brian. New lamps for old: the story of electric lighting. IEE review, v. 41, Nov. 16, 1995: 239-242. Brown, M. L. The American arms industry and the industrial revolution. National defense, no. 369, July/Aug. 1981: 41-47. Galloway, D. F. Mankind and manufacture. Pt. 1. Retrospect. Chartered mechanical engineer, v. 16, Nov. 1969: 431-437. Hunkin, Tim. Just give me the fax. New scientist, v. 137, Feb. 13, 1993: 33-37. Jackson, Donald Dale. Elevating thoughts from Elisha Otis and fellow uplifters. Smithsonian, v. 20, Nov. 1989: 210-212, 214, 215, 218, 220, 222, 224-228, 231-232, 234. Livingston, James D. 100 years of magnetic memories. Scientific American, v. 279, Nov. 1998: 106-111. Lucky, Robert. The quickening of science communication. Science, v. 289, July 14, 2000: 259-264. Ross, Ian M. The foundation of the silicon age. Physics today, v. 50, Dec. 1997: 34-39. Tylecote, R. F. A history of metallurgy. London, Metals Society, c1976. 182 p. Uricchio, W. C. The motion picture as industrial archaeology. Industrial archaeology, v. 16, autumn 1981: 233-237. White, Lynn, Jr. Medieval Europe foresaw planes, cars, submarines. Smithsonian, v. 9, Oct. 1978: 114-123.
The Internet offers a growing number of sites useful for finding information on the history of technology. Several of the organizations listed above provide links to related sites from their web sites. You might try the sites described below, or use your favorite search engine and appropriate key words to identify more specific resources, such as the IEEE History Center at http://www.ieee.org/organizations/history_center/ or Recording Technology History at http://history.acusd.edu/gen/recording/notes.html. Compiled by Diana Niskern January 2001 |
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