Science
and Technology in
18th Century America
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A guide to sources chronicling the history of science, invention,
medicine and technology in colonial America. This compilation,
an update of TB 74-4, provides references to a variety of materials
and sources in the collections of the Library of Congress useful
in researching science and technology in eighteenth-century America.
Not intended to be a comprehensive bibliography, this guide is
designed--as the name of the series implies--to put the reader
"on target."
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Barck, Oscar Theodore, and Hugh Talmage Lefler. Industrial life
in the colonies. In their Colonial America. New York, Macmillan,
1958. p. 335-350.
E188.B26 and Pamphlet box <SciRR>
Browne, Charles A. Thomas Jefferson and the scientific trends of
his time. Chronica botanica, v. 8, summer 1964: 363-423.
QK1.C55 and Pamphlet box <SciRR>
Clark, Harry H. The influence of science on American ideas, from
1771-1809. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences,
Arts and Letters, v. 35, 1943: 305- 349.
AS36.W7 and Pamphlet box <SciRR>
Kilgour, Frederick G. Science in the American colonies and the
early republic, 1664-1845. Cahiers d'histoire mondiale. Journal
of world history, v. 10, no. 2, 1967: 393-415.
D1.C22 and Pamphlet box <SciRR>
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Subject headings under which books on science and technology in
colonial America can be located in the Library's card, book, and
online catalogs include the following. You may also want to use
key words such as 18th century, early republic, revolutionary period,
early America, colonial America, eighteenth century, etc., in conjunction
with specific terms or scientific disciplines.
Highly Relevant
SCIENCE--UNITED STATES--HISTORY--18TH CENTURY
TECHNOLOGY--UNITED STATES--18TH CENTURY
MEDICINE--UNITED STATES--HISTORY--18TH CENTURY
AGRICULTURE--UNITED STATES--HISTORY--18TH CENTURY
NATURAL HISTORY--UNITED STATES--18TH CENTURY
Relevant
SCIENCE--UNITED STATES--HISTORY
TECHNOLOGY--UNITED STATES--HISTORY
AGRICULTURE--UNITED STATES--HISTORY
INDUSTRIES--UNITED STATES--HISTORY
MEDICINE--UNITED STATES--HISTORY
NATURAL HISTORY--UNITED STATES--HISTORY
UNITED STATES--MANUFACTURES
INVENTIONS--UNITED STATES--HISTORY
More General
UNITED STATES--HISTORY--COLONIAL PERIOD, ca. 1600-1775-- BIBLIOGRAPHY
UNITED
STATES--HISTORY--COLONIAL PERIOD, ca. 1600-1775-- SOURCES
UNITED STATES--HISTORY--REVOLUTION, 1775-1783
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Bedini, Silvio A. Thinkers and tinkers: early American men
of science. New York, Scribner, 1975. 520 p.
Bibliography: p. 489-490.
Q127.U6B33 <SciRR>
Cohen, I. Bernard. Science and the founding fathers: science
in the political thought of Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, and Madison.
New York, W. W. Norton, c1995. 368 p.
Bibliography: p. 315-353.
E302.5.C62 1995 <SciRR>
Early American science. Brooke Hindle, editor. New York,
Science History Publications, 1976. 213 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
Q127.U6E17 <SciRR>
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.
Bibliography: p. 358-460.
T21.E24 1994 <SciRR>
Friedenberg, Zachary B. The doctor in colonial America.
Danbury, Conn., Rutledge Books, 1998. 259 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
Not Yet in LC
Greene, John C. American science in the age of Jefferson.
Ames, Iowa State University Press, 1984. 484 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
Q127.U6G69 1984 <SciRR>
Hindle, Brooke. The pursuit of science in Revolutionary America,
1735-1789. Chapel Hill, Published for the Institute of Early
American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University
of North Carolina Press, 1956. 410 p.
Bibliography: p. 387-392.
Q127.U6H5 <SciRR>
Stearns, Raymond Phineas. Science in the British colonies of
America. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1970. 766 p.
Bibliography: p. 712-717.
Q127.N6S7 <SciRR>
Struik, Dirk Jan. Yankee science in the making: science and
engineering in New England from Colonial times to the Civil War.
New York, Dover Publications, 1991. 544 p.
Bibliography: p. 485-532.
"Unabridged, slightly enlarged republication
of the revised edition, first published by Collier Books, New York,
1962. The original edition was published by Little, Brown and Company,
Boston, 1948."
Q127.U6S8 1991 <SciRR>
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Bell, Whitfield J. Early American science: needs and opportunities
for study. New York, Russell & Russell, 1971, c1955. 85
p.
Bibliography: p. 37-80.
Q127.U6B35 1971 <SciRR>
Cohen, I. Bernard. Some early tools of American science: an
account of the early scientific instruments and mineralogical and
biological collections in Harvard University. With a foreword
by Samuel Eliot Morison. New York, Russell & Russell, 1967,
c1950. 201 p.
Q127.U6C6 1967
Fortune, Brandon Brame, and Deborah J. Warner. Franklin and
his friends: portraying the man of science in eighteenth century
America. Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. Philadelphia,
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. 178 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery,
Smithsonian Institution, April 16-September 6, 1999.
Q143.F8F67 1999 <SciRR>
Hawke, David Freeman. Nuts and bolts of the past: a history
of American technology, 1776-1860. New York, Harper & Row,
c1988. 308 p.
Bibliography: p. 287-293.
T21.H39 1988 <SciRR>
Hindle, Brooke. Technology in early America: needs and opportunities
for study. With a directory of artifact collections, by Lucius
F. Ellsworth. Chapel Hill, Published for the Institute of Early
American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University
of North Carolina Press, 1966. 145 p.
Bibliography: p. 29-94.
T21.H5 <SciRR>
Martin, Edwin Thomas. Thomas Jefferson: scientist. New
York, H. Schuman, 1952. 289 p.
Bibliography: p. 261-283.
E332.M33 <SciRR>
Regis, Pamela. Describing early America: Bartram, Jefferson,
Crvecoeur, and the rhetoric of natural history. DeKalb,
Northern Illinois University Press, 1992. 189 p.
Bibliography: p. 177-183.
PS367.R44 1991
Rowland, K. T. Eighteenth century inventions. Newton Abbot,
David & Charles; New York, Barnes & Noble, 1974. 160 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
T18.R68 1974
Science and society in early America: essays in honor of Whitfield
J. Bell, Jr. Edited by Randolph Shipley Klein. Philadelphia,
American Philosophical Society, 1986. 426 p. (American Philosophical
Society. Memoirs, v. 166)
Includes bibliographical references.
Q11.P612, v. 166
Scientific societies in eighteenth century America. In Bates, Ralph
S. Scientific societies in the United States. 3d ed. Cambridge,
Mass., M.I.T. Press, 1965. p. 1-27.
Bibliography: p. 245-293.
Q11.A1B3 1965 <SciRR>
Wilbur, C. Keith. Revolutionary medicine, 1700-1800. 2nd
ed. Old Saybrook, Conn., Globe Pequot Press, c1997. 88 p.
Bibliography: p. 79-80.
E283.W54 1997 <SciRR>
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America's wooden age: aspects of its early technology.
Edited by Brooke Hindle. Tarrytown, N.Y., Sleepy Hollow Restorations,
1975. 218 p.
Bibliography: p. 211-212.
T21.A59
Bedini, Silvio A. Early American scientific instruments and
their makers. Rancho Cordova, Calif., Landmark Enterprises,
c1986. 189 p.
Bibliography: p. 172-176.
Originally published in Washington, D.C., Museum
of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, 1964.
"Errata and addenda": p. 185-186.
"Addenda to bibliography": p. 188-189.
Q185.B4 1986 <SciRR>
Bedini, Silvio A. Thomas Jefferson and American vertebrate
paleontology. Charlottesville, Va., Commonwealth of Virginia,
Dept. of Mines, Minerals and Energy, Division of Mineral Resources,
1985. 26 p. (Virginia Division of Mineral Resources. Publication,
61)
Bibliography: p. 24-26.
"Presented by the author as the keynote address
for the Symposium on the Quaternary of Virginia held at Charlottesville
in September 1984."
QE841.B385 1985
Bidwell, Percy Wells, and John I. Falconer. History of agriculture
in the Northern United States, 1620-1860. Clifton, N.J., A.
M. Kelley, 1973. 512 p. (Library of early American business and
industry, 59)
Includes bibliographical references.
Reprint of the 1925 ed.
S441.B5 1973 <SciRR>
Bishop, J. Leander. A history of American manufactures from
1608-1860. 3d ed., rev. and enl., with an introduction by Louis
M. Hacker. New York, A. M. Kelley, 1966. 3 v. (Library of early
American Business and industry, 1)
Bibliographical footnotes.
3d ed. first published in 1868.
TS23.B72 1966 <SciRR>
Blanton, Wyndham Bolling. Medicine in Virginia in the eighteenth
century. New York, AMS Press, 1980, c1931. 449 p.
Bibliography: p. 421-426.
Reprint of the ed. published by Garrett &
Massie, Richmond, Va.
R345.B52 1980
Brown, M. L. Firearms in colonial America: the impact on history
and technology, 1492-1792. Washington, Smithsonian Institution
Press, 1980. 450 p.
Bibliography: p. 411-415.
TS533.2.B76
Catesby, Mark. Catesby's Birds of colonial America. Edited
by Alan Feduccia. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press,
c1985. 176 p.
Bibliography: p. 171-172.
Includes text of The natural history of Carolina,
Florida and the Bahama Islands.
QL683.A87C38 1985
Cowen, David L. The colonial and revolutionary heritage of
pharmacy in America. Trenton, New Jersey Pharmaceutical Association,
1976. 24 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
"Originally appeared in thirteen monthly
installments in the New Jersey journal of pharmacy starting
with the June 1975 issue."
RS67.U6C68
Duffy, John. Epidemics in colonial America. Baton Rouge,
Louisiana State University Press, 1953. 274 p.
Bibliography: p. 249-265.
RA650.5.D8
Goldenberg, Joseph A. Shipbuilding in colonial America.
Charlottesville, Published for the Mariners Museum, Newport News,
Virginia, by the University Press of Virginia, 1976. 306 p. (Mariners
Museum. Publication, no. 33)
Bibliography: p. 287-299.
VM23.G64
Gordon, Maurice Bear. Naval and maritime medicine during the
American Revolution. Ventnor, N.J., Ventnor Publishers, c1978.
134 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
RD202.G67
Gray, Lewis Cecil. History of agriculture in the southern United
States to 1860. Assisted by Esther Katherine Thompson, with
an introductory note by Henry Charles Taylor. Washington, The Carnegie
Institution of Washington, 1933. 2 v. (Carnegie Institution of Washington.
Publication 430) (Contributions to American economic history, no.
7)
Bibliography: v. 2, p. 943-1016.
S445.G8
Harvard University. The apparatus of science at Harvard, 1765-1800.
By David P. Wheatland, assisted by Barbara Carson. Cambridge, Mass.,
Harvard University, 1968. 203 p.
Bibliography: p. 200.
Q185.H3
Hedrich, U. P. A history of horticulture in America to 1860.
New York, Oxford University Press, 1950. 551 p.
Bibliography: p. 515-523.
SB83.H4 <SciRR>
Hornberger, Theodore. Scientific thought in the American colleges,
1638-1800. New York, Octagon Books, 1968, c1946. 108 p.
Bibliography: p. 89-103.
Q181.H77 1968
Mulholland, James A. A history of metals in colonial America.
University, Ala., University of Alabama Press, c1981. 215 p.
Bibliography: p. 203-209.
TN623.M84 <SciRR>
Murphy, Lamar R. Enter the physician: the transformation of
domestic medicine, 1760-1860. Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama
Press, c1991. 312 p.
Bibliography: p. 229-302.
RC81.M965 1990
Powell, J. H. Bring out your dead: the great plague of yellow
fever in Philadelphia in 1793. Reprinted with a new introduction
by Kenneth R. Foster, Mary F. Jenkins, and Anna Coxe Toogood. Philadelphia,
University of Pennsylvania Press, c1993. 304 p.
Bibliography: p. 287-294.
Originally published in New York, Arno Press,
1949.
RC211.P5P6 1993
Reiss, Oscar. Medicine and the American Revolution: how diseases
and their treatments affected the colonial army. Jefferson,
N.C., McFarland & Co., c1998. 278 p.
Bibliography: p. 265-272.
E283.R45 1998
Reveal, James L. Gentle conquest: the botanical discovery of
North America with illustrations from the Library of Congress.
Washington, Starwood Pub., c1992. 160 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
QK21.N6R48 1992 <SciRR>
Shryock, Richard Harrison. Medicine and society in America,
1660-1860. New York, New York University Press, 1960. 182 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American
Antiquarian Society for October 1949.
R148.S45 <SciRR>
Tunis, Edwin. Colonial craftsmen and the beginnings of American
industry. Cleveland, World Pub. Co., 1965. 159 p.
T21.T8
Titles relating to Correspondence, Reminiscences and Biography
Bartram, John. The correspondence of John Bartram, 1734-1777.
Edited by Edmund Berkeley and Dorothy Smith Berkeley. Gainesville,
University Press of Florida, c1992. 808 p.
Bibliography: p. 792-797.
QK31.B3A4 1992
Bartram, John. John and William Bartram's America: selections
from the writings of the Philadelphia naturalists. Edited with
an introduction by Helen Gere Cruickshank. Greenwich, Conn., Devin-Adair,
c1990. 418 p.
Reprint of the 1957 ed.
QH31.B23A3 1990
Bedini, Silvio A. At the sign of the compass and quadrant:
the life and times of Anthony Lamb. Philadelphia, American
Philosophical Society, 1984. 84 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
Reprinted from v. 74, pt. 1 (1984) of the Transactions
of the American Philosophical Society.
Q143.L29B43 1984
Bedini, Silvio A. Thomas Jefferson: statesman of science.
New York, Macmillan, c1990. 616 p.
Bibliography: p. 519-543.
E332.2.B37 1990 <SciRR>.
Beall, Otho T., and Richard H. Shryock. Cotton Mather, first
significant figure in American medicine. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins
Press, 1954. 241 p. (Publications of the Institute of the History
of Medicine. First series: Monographs, v. 5)
F67.M4218
Reprinted from v. 63 (1954) of the Proceedings
of the American Antiquarian Society.
Bell, Whitfield J. The colonial physician & other essays.
New York, Science History Publications, 1975. 229 p.
R152.B43 1975
Contents: Portrait of the colonial physician.--John
Redman, medical preceptor (1722-1808).--Philadelphia medical students
in Europe, 1750- 1800.-- Thomas Parke, physician and friend.--James
Hutchinson (1752-1793): a physician in politics.--Benjamin Franklin
and the practice of medicine.--James Smith and public encouragement
of vaccination.--Lives in medicine: Thacher, Williams and Gross.--Joseph
M. Toner (1852-1896) as a medical historian.--John Morgan: adventures
of a biographer.--Adam Cunningham's Atlantic crossing, 1728.--William
Shippen's introductory lecture.--Body snatching in Philadelphia.--
An eighteenth century American medical manuscript.--Dr. James Rush
on his teachers.
Bell, Whitfield J. John Morgan, continental doctor. Philadelphia,
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965. 301 p.
Bibliography: p. 267-291.
R154.M74B4 1965
Betts, Edwin M., and Hazlehurst Bolton Perkins. Thomas Jefferson's
flower garden at Monticello. 3rd ed. Revised and enlarged by
Peter J. Hatch. Charlottesville, Published for the Thomas Jefferson
Memorial Foundation, Inc., by the University Press of Virginia,
1986. 96 p.
Bibliography: p. 95-96.
E332.74.B48 1986
Cantwell, Robert. Alexander Wilson: naturalist and pioneer,
a biography. With decorations by Robert Ball. Philadelphia,
Lippincott, 1961. 318 p.
QL31.W7C3
Cohen, I. Bernard. Benjamin Franklin's science. Cambridge,
Mass., Harvard University Press, 1990. 273 p.
Bibliography: p. 213-266.
QC16.F68C64 1990
Collinson, Peter. Brothers of the spade: correspondence of
Peter Collinson, of London, and of John Custis, of Williamsburg,
Virginia, 1734-1746. By E. G. Swem. Barre, Mass., Barre Gazette,
1957. 196 p.
Bibliography: p. 97-131, 145-177.
Reprinted from v. 58, pt. 1 (1949) of the Proceedings
of the American Antiquarian Society.
QK31.C7A4 1957
Dickinson, H. W. Robert Fulton, engineer and artist: his life
and works. Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press, 1971.
333 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
Reprint of 1913 ed.
"Appendix C: List of writings by Robert Fulton,"
p. 282- 283.
"Appendix F: Fulton's U.S. Patent Specification
of 1810."
VM140.F9D5 1971
Eliot, Jared. Essays upon field husbandry in New England, and
other papers, 1748- 1762. Edited by Harry J. Carman and Rexford
G. Tugwell, with a biographical sketch by Rodney H. True. New York,
AMS Press, 1967. 261 p.
Bibliography: p. 255-256.
Reprint of the 1934 ed., which was issued as Columbia
University studies in the history of American agriculture, 1.
Contents: Essays upon field husbandry in New England.--An
essay on the invention, or art of making very good, if not the best
iron, from black sea sand.--Letters on agriculture received by Jared
Eliot from J. Bartram and others.
S497.E4 1967
Estes, J. Worth. Hall Jackson and the purple foxglove: medical
practice and research in Revolutionary America, 1760-1820.
Hanover, N.H., University Press of New England, 1979. 291 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
R154.J27E83
Ferguson, Eugene S. Oliver Evans, inventive genius of the American
Industrial Revolution. Greenville, Del., Hagley Museum, c1980.
72 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
T40.E9F47
Ford, Edward. David Rittenhouse, astronomer-patriot, 1723-1796.
Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1946. 226 p.
Bibliography: p. 213-217.
QB36.R4F6
Franklin, Benjamin. Benjamin Franklin's Experiments: an new
edition of Franklin's Experiments and observations on electricity.
Edited, with a critical and historical introduction by I. Bernard
Cohen. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1941. 453 p.
"Bibliographical table": p. 158-161.
QC516.F85 1941
Frick, George Frederick, and Raymond Phineas Stearns. Mark
Catesby: the colonial Audubon. Urbana, University of Illinois
Press, 1961. 137 p.
QH31.C35F7
"A checklist of Mark Catesby's published
works": p. 109- 111.
Goodman, Nathan Gerson. Benjamin Rush, physician and citizen,
1746-1813. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press,
1934. 421 p.
Bibliography: p. 377-406.
R154.R9G65
Green, Constance McLaughlin. Eli Whitney and the birth of American
technology. Boston, Little, Brown, 1956. 215 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
TS1570.W4G7
Hall, Courtney Robert. A scientist in the early republic: Samuel
Latham Mitchell, 1764-1831. New York, Russell & Russell,
1967, c1962. 162 p.
"Bibliography of Mitchell's writings":
p. 141-150.
Bibliography: p. 151-155.
Q143.M675H3 1967
Jefferson, Thomas. Thomas Jefferson's Farm book, with commentary
and relevant extracts from other writings. Edited by Edwin
Morris Betts. Princeton, Published for the American Philosophical
Society by Princeton University Press, 1953. 552 p. (Memoirs of
the American Philosophical Society, v. 35)
Bibliography: p. 529-531.
S451.V8J4
Jefferson, Thomas. Thomas Jefferson's Garden book, 1766-1824,
with relevant extracts from his other writings. Annotated by
Edwin Morris Betts. Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society,
1944. 704 p. (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, v.
22)
Bibliography: p. 663-666.
SB479.J4
Kalm, Pehr. Travels into North America. Translated into
English by John Reinhold Forster. Introd. by Ralph M. Sargent. Barre,
Mass., Imprint Society, 1972. 514 p.
E162.K173
Translation of En resa til Norra America.
The Life and scientific and medical career of Benjamin Waterhouse:
with some account of the introduction of vaccination in America.
I. Bernard Cohen, editor. New York, Arno Press, 1980. 2 v.
Includes bibliographical references.
A collection of four of Waterhouse's own writings,
followed by a section containing some articles, published in a variety
of journals, dealing with the life and career of Waterhouse and
his role in the introduction of vaccination.
R154.W29L5
Rush, Benjamin. The autobiography of Benjamin Rush; his "Travels
through life" together with his Commonplace book for 1789-1813.
Edited with introd. and notes by George W. Corner. Westport, Conn.,
Greenwood Press, 1970, c1948. 399 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
E302.6.R85R8 1970
Savage, Henry, and Elizabeth J. Savage. André
and François André Michaux. Charlottesville,
University Press of Virginia, 1986. 435 p.
Bibliography: p. 411-420.
QK31.M45S28 1986
Slaughter, Thomas P. The natures of John and William Bartram.
New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. 304 p.
Bibliography: p. 275-292.
QK31.B3S58 1996
Thacher, James. American medical biography. With an new
introd. and a bibliography by Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. New York, Da
Capo Press, 1967. 2 v.
Bibliography: p. 279-291.
Reprint of 1st ed., published in Boston in 1828.
R153.T32
Warren, Edward. The life of John Warren, M.D., Surgeon-General
during the war of the revolution, first professor of anatomy and
surgery in Harvard College, president of the Massachusetts Medical
Society, etc. Boston, Noyes, Holmes and Company, 1874. 568
p.
R154.W25W2
Winthrop, John. The scientific work of John Winthrop.
Michael Shute, editor. New York, Arno Press, 1980. ca 350 p. in
various pagings.
Q171.W79 1980
Reprints of eighteen articles, letters, etc.,
published between 1742 and 1916 by various publishers.
Wright, Karl Eugene. "Pennsylvania medical men of the
American Revolution and era": a history of the Revolution and
era told through the lives of those who lived and made that history.
S.l., K. E. Wright, 1981. 36 p.
Includes bibliographical references
R315.W74
Titles for Younger Readers
The Arts and sciences: a sourcebook on colonial America. Edited
by Carter Smith. Brookfield, Conn., Millbrook Press, c1991. 96 p.
(American albums from the collections of the Library of Congress
Includes bibliographical references.
Describes and illustrates the arts and sciences
of colonial and early Federal America through a variety of images
produced at the time.
E162.A667 1991
Farming: copyright-free illustrations for lovers of history.
Compiled by Bobbie Kalman. New York, Crabtree Pub., c1998. 32 p.
S441.F25 1998
Etchings and descriptions depict various aspects
of farm life in pioneer times, including the chores, the livestock,
and the harvest.
Feldman, Eve. Benjamin Franklin, scientist and inventor.
New York, F. Watts, 1990. 64 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
Discusses Benjamin Franklin's experiments and
inventions involving electricity and examines his improvements to
everyday objects of his time.
Q143.F8F45 1990
Giblin, James. The mystery of the mammoth bones, and how it
was solved. New York, HarperCollins Publishers, c1999. 97 p.
Bibliography: p. 89-91.
Describes the efforts of the artist, museum curator,
and self- taught paleontologist, Charles Willson Peale, to excavate,
study, and display the bones of a prehistoric creature that is later
named "mastodon."
QE882.U7G48 1999
January, Brendan. Science in colonial America. New York,
Franklin Watts, c1999. 64 p.
Bibliography: p. 61-62.
Describes the scientific contributions made by
people in colonial America, including natural history, medicine,
astronomy, and electricity.
Q127.U6J35 1999
Sanger, Marjory (Bartlett). Billy Bartram and his green world:
an interpretative biography. New York, Farrar, Straus &
Giroux, 1972. 207 p.
Bibliography: p. 197-202.
A biography of the eighteenth-century man who
devoted his life to studying and drawing birds, animals, and plants
in America's wilderness.
QL31.B33S35 1972
Terkel, Susan Neiburg. Colonial American medicine. New
York, Franklin Watts, c1993. 111 p.
Bibliography: p. 104-106.
Examines the health risks in the American colonies
during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and looks at the
questionable, and even dangerous, treatments and remedies available
at the time.
R151.T43 1993
Thompson, Sylvia, and Mary Marcoux. Colonial science: studying
the colonial uses of herbs helps children link the past with the
present. Science and children, v. 33, Feb. 1996: 12-15,
35.
LB1585.S34
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Brigham, David R. Public culture in the early republic: Peale's
Museum and its audience. Washington, Smithsonian Institution
Press, c1995. 215 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
AM101.P496B75 1995
Goler, Robert I. The healing arts in early America. New
York, Fraunces Tavern Museum, c1985. 56 p.
Bibliography: p. 54-56.
Catalog of an exhibition on view at Fraunces Tavern
Museum from Dec. 6, 1985 through June 20, 1986.
R152.G55 1985
Hatch, Peter J. The fruits and fruit trees of Monticello.
Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1998. 222 p.
Bibliography: p. 207-214.
E332.74.H38 1998
Hood, Graham. Bonnin and Morris of Philadelphia: the first
American porcelain factory, 1770-1772. Chapel Hill, Published
for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg,
Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1972. 78 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
NK4210.B66H66
Quimby, Ian M. G. Apprenticeship in colonial Philadelphia.
New York, Garland Pub., 1985. 215 p.
Bibliography: p. 187-192.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (M.A.)--University
of Delaware, 1963.
HD4885.U5Q56 1985
Rice, Howard C. The Rittenhouse orrery: Princeton's eighteenth-century
planetarium, 1767-1954. A commentary on an exhibition held in the
Princeton University Library. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University
Library, 1954. 88 p.
Bibliography: p. 76-81.
QB70.A1R5
Stapleton, Darwin H. The transfer of early industrial technologies
to America. Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society, 1987.
215 p. (Memoirs of the (American Philosophical Society, v. 177)
Bibliography: p. 202-207
Q11.P612.
Woolf, Harry. The transits of Venus: a study of eighteenth-century
science. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1959.
258 p.
Bibliography: p. 215-251
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Handbook, Encyclopedias, Dictionaries containing supplementary material
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Dictionary of American biography. New York, Scribner,
1928-1958. 22 v.
E176.D563 <BusRR>
Dictionary of scientific biography. New York, Scribner,
1970-
Q141.D5 <SciRR Desk>
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery (San Marino, Calif.).
Science and the new world (1526-1800): an exhibition to illustrate
the scientific contributions of the new world and the spread of
scientific ideas in America. San Marino, Calif., 1937. 18 p.
Z7409.H51
Kelly, Howard A. A cyclopedia of American medical biography,
comprising the lives of eminent deceased physicians and surgeons
from 1610-1910. Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders, 1912. 2 v.
R153.K3
Thornton, John Leonard., and R. I. J. Tully. Scientific books,
libraries and collectors: a study of bibliography and the book trade
in relation to science. 3d ed. London, Library Association,
1971. 508 p.
Bibliography: p. 381-465.
See especially "Scientific books from 1701-1800.":
p. 142- 199.
Z7401.T45 1971 <SciRR>
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Agricultural history. Eighteenth-century agriculture: a symposium.
Edited by John T. Schlebecker. Davis, Calif., Agricultural History
Society, 1969. 214 p. (Agricultural history, v. 43, Jan.
1969)
S1.A16, v. 43
Farming in the new nation: interpreting American agriculture,
1790-1840. Edited by Darwin P. Kelsey. Washington, Agricultural
History Society, 1972. 239 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
Papers presented at a symposium held Sept. 16-18,
1970, in Old Sturbridge Village, Mass., and sponsored by the Agricultural
History Society, Old Sturbridge Village, the Smithsonian Institution,
and the United States Department of Agriculture, and originally
published as v. 46, no. 1, Jan. 1972, of Agricultural history.
S441.F26
Medicine in colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1820: a conference
held 25 & 26 May 1978. The Colonial Society of Massachusetts.
Boston, The Society; Charlottesville, Distrib-uted by the University
Press of Virginia, c1980. 425 p. (Colonial Society of Massachusetts.
Publications, v. 57)
Includes bibliographical references.
F61.C71, v. 57
The Pursuit of knowledge in the early American Republic: American
scientific and learned societies from colonial times to the Civil
War. Edited by Alexandra Oleson and Sanborn C. Brown. Baltimore,
Johns Hopkins University Press, c1976. 372 p.
Includes bibliographical references.
Papers from a five-day workshop held by the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, in Cape Newagen, Me., June 1973.
AS25.P87
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Dissertations can be located by using the following indexes located
in the Library's Main Reading Room, on FirstSearch, or from the
Library's web site using computers in the Library's Computer Catalog
Centers. From the Public Workstation home-page, choose Electronic
Resources, followed by Other Subscription Services, and scroll down
to Digital Dissertations. This file includes full text
of currently issued dissertations.
Comprehensive Dissertation Index 1861/1972-
(1973- annual) |
Z5053.X47 1973 |
Dissertation Abstracts International
(1938- monthly) |
Z5053.D57 |
Dissertation Abstracts Ondisc (CD-ROM&--same
coverage as print volumes) |
|
Masters Abstracts International (1962-1985) |
Z5055.U49M3 |
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Ardila, Marta. Science policies in the American colonies: a
comparative study. Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms,
1992. 323 p.
UMI Microfiche 92-12812
Bibliography: p. 298-309.
Thesis (doctoral)--Boston University, 1992.
Condon, Adrienne. Transatlantic friends: the correspondence
of Peter Collinson (1694- 1768) and John Bartram (1699-1777).
Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms, 1996. 215 p.
UMI Microfiche 96-22226
Bibliography: p. 208-214.
Thesis (doctoral)--University of South Florida,
1996.
Malone, Robert J. Everyday science, surveying, and politics
in the old southwest: William Dunbar and the influence of place
on natural philosophy. Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms,
1996. 347 p.
UMI Microfiche 97-09271
Bibliography: p. 326-344.
Thesis (doctoral)--University of Florida, 1996.
Parrish, Susan S. Performances of curiosity: British and British-American
natural histories of the new world in the colonial period.
Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms, 1998. 273 p.
UMI Microfiche 99-01571
Includes bibliographical references.
Thesis (doctoral)--Stanford University, 1998
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Agriculture in Britain and America, 1660-1820: an annotated
bibliography of the eighteenth-century literature. Compiled
by Samuel J. Rogal. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1994. 266
p. (Bibliographies and indexes in world history, no. 23)
Bibliography: p. 237-240.
Z5075.G8R64 1994 <SciRR>
American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia. Classified index
to the publications of the American Philosophical Society.
A list of papers, monographs, treatises and books published by the
Society, 1769-1940. Philadelphia, 1940. 173 p.
Z5055.U4A7
American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia. Library. Catalog
of manuscripts in the American Philosophical Society Library, including
the archival shelflist. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Pub. Corp.,
1970. 10 v.
Z881.P5319
Current bibliography in the history of technology. 1990-
Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1992-
TI.T27 and Computer Format
Issued by the Society for the History of Technology
and previously (1964-1990) appeared annually in issues of its Technology
and culture.
Also available online (1976- ) through RLIN's
Eureka as part of the HST, History of science and technology, file.
Cutting, Rose Marie. John and William Bartram, William Byrd
II, and St. John de Crèvecoeur: a reference guide. Boston,
G. K. Hall, c1976. 174 p. (Reference guides in literature, no. 12)
Z1231.P8C87
Darton, Nelson Horatio. Catalogue and index of contributions
to North American geology, 1732-1891. New York, Arno Press,
1980. 1045 p.
Bibliography: p. 1036-1040.
Reprint of the 1896 ed. published by the Govt.
Print. Off., Washington, which was issued as no. 127 of the U.S.
Geological Survey bulletin.
Z6034.N65D37 1980 <SciRR>
Erlen, Jonathon. The history of the health care sciences and
health care, 1700-1980: a selective annotated bibliography.
New York, Garland, 1984. 1028 p. (Garland reference library of the
humanities, v. 398) (Bibliographies of the history of science and
technology, v. 10)
Z6660.8.E74 1984 <SciRR>
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)
Z7914.H5F4 <SciRR>
Fusonie, Alan M. Heritage of American agriculture: a bibliography
of pre-1860 imprints.. Beltsville, Md., National Agricultural
Library, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1975 1968. 347 p. (National
Agricultural Library, Library list, 98)
Z881.U4L5, no. 98
Gephart, Ronald M. Revolutionary America, 1763-1789: a bibliography.
Compiled by Ronald M. Gephart. Washington, Library of Congress;
for sale by the Supt. of Docs, U.S. G.P.O., 1984. 2 v. (1672 p.)
Z1238.G43 1984 <MRR Alc>
See especially, v. 2, p. 979-991.
Guerra, Francisco. American medical bibliography, 1639-1783.
A chronological catalogue, and critical and bibliographical study
of books, pamphlets, broadsides, and articles in periodical publications
relating to the medical sciences--medicine, surgery, pharmacy, dentistry,
and veterinary medicine--printed in the present territory of the
United States of America during British dominion and the Revolutionary
War. New York, L. C. Harper, 1962. 885 p. (Yale University. Dept.
of the History of Science and Medicine. Publication, no. 40)
Z6659.G8 <SciRR>
ISIS cumulative bibliography: a bibliography of the history
of science formed from ISIS critical bibliographies 1-90, 1913-65.
Edited by Magda Whitrow. London, Mansell in conjunction with the
History of Science Society, 1971-1984. 6 v.
Z7405.H6I2 <SciRR>
ISIS cumulative bibliography 1966-1975: a bibliography of the
history of science formed from ISIS critical bibliographies 91-100
indexing literature published from 1965 through 1975. Edited
by John Neu. London, Mansell in conjunction with the History of
Science Society, 1980-1985. 2 v.
Z7405.H6I2 Suppl. <SciRR>
ISIS cumulative bibliography 1976-1985: a bibliography of the
history of science formed from ISIS critical bibliographies 101-110
indexing literature published from 1975 through 1984. Edited
by John Neu. Boston, G. K. Hall in conjunction with the History
of Science Society, c1989. 2 v.
Z7405.H6I2 Suppl. 2 <SciRR>
ISIS cumulative bibliography 1986-1995: a bibliography of the
history of science formed from the annual ISIS current bibliographies.
Edited by John Neu. Canton, Mass., Published for the History of
Science Society by Science History Publications, 1997. 4 v.
Z7405.H6I2 1997 Suppl. 3 <SciRR>
Meisel, Max. A bibliography of American natural history: the
pioneer century, 1769- 1865. New York, Hafner Pub. Co., 1967.
3 v.
Z7408.U5M52 <SciRR>
Reprint of work first published, 1924-1929.
National Library of Medicine (U.S.). Early American medical
imprints: a guide to works printed in the United States, 1668-1820.
By Robert B. Austin. Washington, U.S. Dept. of Health, Education
and Welfare, Public Health Service, 1961. 240 p.
Z6661.U5A44 <SciRR>
National union catalog of manuscript collections. 1959/61-1993.
Washington, Library of Congress.
Z6620.U5N3 <MRR Alc> and Computer Format
Ceased with index 1991-1993.
The data from this title is now available online
through RLIN or at the URL: http://archives.chadwyck.com/main/search
Rink, Evald. Technical Americana: a checklist of technical
publications printed before 1831. Foreword by Eugene S. Ferguson.
Sponsored by the Eleutherian Mills Historical Library. Millwood,
N.Y., Kraus International Pubs., c1981. 776 p.
Z7912.R56 <SciRR>
Romaine, Lawrence B. A guide to American trade catalogs, 1744-1900.
New York, Dover, 1990. 422 p.
Bibliography: p. 397-399.
Reprint. Originally published in New York, R.
R. Bowker, 1960.
Z7164.C8R6 1990 <SciRR Desk>
Schlebecker, John T. Bibliography of books and pamphlets on
the history of agriculture in the United States, 1607-1967.
Santa Barbara, Calif., American Bibliographical Center--Clio, 1969.
183 p.
Z5057.U5S28 <SciRR>
"Published under contract with the Smithsonian
Institution."
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Goode, George B. The beginnings of natural history in America.
Report of the United States National Museum, pt. 2, 1897:
357-406.
Q11.U5 1897, pt. 2
Griffenhagen, George B. Drug supplies in the American Revolution.
Bulletin of the United States National Museum, no. 225,
1961: 110-133.
Q11.U6, no. 225
Merrill, George P. Contributions to the history of American geology.
Report of the United States National Museum, 1904: 189-733.
Q11.U5 1904
Pearson, John C., ed. The fish and fisheries of colonial North
America: a documentary history of the fishery resources of the United
States and Canada. Prepared for the National Marine Fisheries
Service. Rockville, Md., The Service.; Springfield, Va., distributed
by the National Technical Information Service, U.S. Dept. of Commerce,
1972. 9 v.
SH221.P4
Contents:--Pt. 1. The Canadian Atlantic provinces.--pt.
2. The New England states.--pt. 3. The Middle Atlantic states.--
pt.4. The Chesapeake Bay states.--pt. 5. The South Atlantic states.--pt.
6. The Gulf states and West Indies.--pt. 7. The inland states.--pt.
8. The Great Lake[s] states.--pt. 9. The Pacific Coast.
"NOAA-72040301."
United States. Patent Office. Subject-matter index of patents
for inventions issued by the United States Patent Office from 1790
to 1873, inclusive. New York, Arno Press, 1976. 3 v. (1951
p.)
T223.D7A45 1976 <SciRR>
Reprint of the 1874 ed. published by the Government
Printing Office, Washington.
Welsh, Peter C. United States patents 1790-1870: new uses for old
ideas. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, no.
241, 1966: 109-154.
Q11.U6, no. 241
"Contributions from the Museum of History
and Technology, Paper 48."
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Abstracting and Indexing Services that index relevant journal
articles and other literature on science and technology in 18th-century
America are listed below. Some suggested terms for searching are:
"Science--History"
"Technology--History"
"National History--Cultural History-- Science"
"National History--Economic History--Industries"
"Inventions--History"
"Colonial Science"
"Colonial Technology,"
FirstSearch and Eureka, available on workstations in the Science Reading
Room and the Computer Catalog Centers, contain additional files. Consult
a reference librarian for the location of abstracting and indexing
(A&I) services and computer terminals.
Applied Science & Technology Index
(1913 - ) |
Z7913.I7 <SciRR> and Computer format |
America, History and Life (1963 - ) |
Z1236.A48, etc. <MRR Alc> and Computer
format
|
Bibliographic Index (1937 - ) |
Z1002.B595 <SciRR> |
Monthly Catalog of United States Government
Publications (1895 - ) |
Z1223.A18 <SciRR> and Computer format |
Poole's Index to Periodical Literature
(1802-1906) |
AI3.P7 <BusRR> |
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
(1907 - ) |
AI3.R48 <BusRR> |
Virginia Historical Index (1934-1936)
|
F221.S93 1965 <LH&G Ref> |
Writings on American History (1902 -
) |
Z1236.L331 <MRR Alc> |
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Journals that often contain relevant articles on science and technology
in 18th-century America include the following:
Agricultural History |
S1.A16 |
American Antiquarian Society. Proceedings
|
E172.A35 |
American Philosophical Society. Proceedings
|
Q11.P5 |
American Philosophical Society. Transactions
|
Q11.P6 |
Bulletin of the History of Medicine |
R11.B93
(Also available on Project Muse) |
Isis |
Q1.I7 |
Osiris |
Q1.O7 |
Pixel Vision |
T385.P528 |
Royal Society of London. Philosophical Transactions
|
Q41.L8 |
Scientific Monthly |
Q127.S817 |
Technology and Culture |
T1.T27 |
William and Mary Quarterly |
F221.W71
(Also available on JSTOR) |
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Andreasen, N. J. C. Benjamin Franklin: physicus et medicus. JAMA,
journal of the American Medical Association, v. 236, July 5,
1976: 57-62.
R15.A48
Brasch, Frederick E. John Winthrop (1714-1779), America's first
astronomer and the science of his period. Publications of the
Astronomical Society of the Pacific, v. 23, Aug./Oct., 1916:
154-170.
QB1.A4
Brasch, Frederick E. The Royal Society of London and its influence
upon scientific thought in the American colonies. Scientific
monthly, v. 33, Oct. 1931: 337-355; Nov. 1931: 448-469.
Q127.S817
Cohen, I. Bernard. Science and the Revolution: the vital interplay
of engineering and science with Government had its beginning in
war necessities. Technology review, v. 47, Apr. 1945: 367-368,
374, 376, 378.
T171.M47
Corgan, James X. American geological education in the 18th century.
Journal of geological education, v. 35, no. 4, 1987: 184-192.
QE40.J6
Ewing, Galen W. Early teaching of science at the College of William
and Mary in Virginia. Journal of chemical education, v.
15, Jan. 1938: 3-13.
QD1.J93
Favretti, Rudi J. Colonial gardens. Arnoldia, v. 31, July 1971:
145-171.
QK479.A7
Hornberger, Theodore. The scientific ideas of John Mitchell. Huntington
Library quarterly, v. 10, 1947: 277-296.
Z733.S24Q
Kilgour, Frederick G. The rise of scientific activity in colonial
New England. Yale journal of biology and medicine, v. 22,
Dec. 1949: 123-138.
R11.Y25
Kraus, Michael. American and European medicine in the eighteenth
century. Bulletin of the history of medicine, v. 8, May
1940: 679-695.
R11.B93
Low, W. A. The farmer in post-Revolutionary Virginia, 1783-1789.
Agricultural history, v. 25, July 1951: 122-127.
S1.A16
Manks, Dorothy S. How the nursery trade began. Plants &
gardens, v. 23, autumn 1967: 4-11.
SB1.P56
Miller, Hubert M. Mark Catesby, an eighteenth century naturalist.
Tyler's quarterly historical and genealogical magazine,
v. 29, Jan. 1948: 167-180.
F221.T95
Mohanty, Gail Fowler. Experimentation in textile technology, 1788-1790,
and its impact on handloom weaving and weavers in Rhode Island.
Technology and culture, v. 29, Jan. 1988: 1-31.
T1.T27
Simpson, Marcus B. The artist-naturalist John Abbot (1751-ca1840):
contributions to the ornithology of the southeastern United States.
North Carolina historical review, v. 41, July 1984: 347-390.
F251.N892
Stearns, Raymond S. Colonial fellows of the Royal Society of London,
1661-1788. Osiris, v. 8, 1948: 73-121.
Q1.O7
Tiggert, William D. A 1759 spotted fever epidemic in North Carolina.
Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences,
v. 42, July 1987: 296-304.
R131.A1J6
Walcott, Robert R. Husbandry in colonial New England. New England
quarterly, v. 9, June 1936: 218-252.
F1.N62
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Selected materials available in the Science Reading Room pamphlet
boxes include the following:
Bell, Whitfield J. The practice of medicine in colonial America.
Bulletin of the history of medicine, v. 31, Sept./Oct.
1957: 442-453.
Blake, John B. Early American medical literature. JAMA, journal
of the American Medical Association, v. 236, July 5, 1976:
41-46.
Bonta, Marcia. Birding in America ... in the18th century: long
before John James Audubon brought the birds of this continent to
the world, Finnish naturalist Pater Kalm wrote of America's avian
treasures. Living bird, v. 18, winter 1999: 18-24.
Cassedy, James H. Meteorology and medicine in colonial America:
beginnings of experimental approach. Journal of the history
of medicine and allied sciences, v. 24, Apr. 1969: 193-204.
Dibner, Bern. Benjamin Franklin, electrician: in celebration
of the two hundredth year of the nation he helped found. Norwalk,
Conn., Burndy Library, 1976. 48 p. (Burndy Library. Publication,
no. 30)
Fleming, Thomas. The Bartrams: they blazed a trail in paradise.
National wildlife, v. 16, Oct./Nov. 1978: 24-31.
Groffman, Sidney. The eyes of liberty: an optometric bicentennial
art portfolio. Journal of the American Optometric Association,
v. 47, Aug. 1976: 1017- 1040.
Kastner, Joseph. Colonial botanist, self-taught, filled European
gardens with his American finds. Smithsonian, v. 8, Oct.
1977: 122-129.
Article on John Bartram.
Spaulding, Paul P., and Adon A. Gordus. The longest battle in the
war for independence: disease and medicine during the American Revolution.
Daughters of the American Revolution magazine, v. 107, Feb.
1973: 84-86, 182.
Stadelman, Bonnie S. Flora and fauna versus mice and mold. William
and Mary quarterly, 3d ser., v. 28, Oct. 1971: 595-606.
Considers the many problems involved in shipping new botanical specimens--especially
live plants--to England and describes some of the ingenious packing
methods that were attempted.
Stewart, Doug. Mark Catesby: both Audubon and Linnaeus were indebted
to this intrepid British limner of the new world. Smithsonian,
v. 28, Sept. 1997: 96- 103.
Waring, Joseph I. Medicine in Charleston at the time of the revolution.
JAMA, journal of the American Medical Association, v. 236,
July 5, 1976: 31-34.
Williams. William H. Independence and early American hospitals,
1751-1812. JAMA, journal of the American Medical Association,
v. 236, July 5, 1976: 35-39.
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American Philosophical Society Library
105 South 5th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Telephone: (215) 440-3400
URL: http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/
This Library is a major national center for research in the history
of science, medicine, and technology. It houses over 250,000 volumes
and bound periodicals, 7 million manuscripts, 1 million images
and thousands of hours of audio tapes. Researchers who plan to
visit the Library are encouraged to call at least a day in advance.
An impressive list of catalogues, bibliographies, and finding
aids relating to the holdings of the Library is available on the
Library's home page.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
313 First Street
P.O. Box 1776
Williamsburg, VA 23187-1776
Telephone: (757) 565-8510
URL:
http://www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/History/jdrlweb/
The primary purpose of the Library is to serve the staff of the
Foundation, but anyone with a serious interest in the study of
the eighteenth-century Chesapeake is welcome to use the collection.
The Library's home page provides links of interest to those studying
science and technology in eighteenth-century America, including
Jack Lynch's Eighteenth-Century Resources (URL: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/science.html)
History of Medicine Division
National Library of Medicine
8600 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20894
Telephone: (301) 496-5405
URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov
The National Library of Medicine's resources for historical scholarship
in medicine and related sciences are among the richest of any
institution in the world. HISTLINE (History of medicine Online)
contains citations to secondary literature dealing with the history
of medicine and related fields published since 1964. HISTLINE
is updated weekly, with about 6,000 citations added yearly. A
wider selection of literature was published between 1964 and 1993
in NLM's Bibliography of the History of Medicine (Z660.B5822
<SciRR>).
The Newcomen Society of the United States
412 Newcomen Road
Exton, PA 19341-1999
Telephone: (617) 363-6600
URL: http://www.newcomen.org
A non-profit Membership Corporation for the study and recognition
of achievement in American business and the society it serves.
The Thomas Newcomen Library and Museum in Steam Technology and
Business History has a 2,700-volume research library on the early
history, technology and biography of steam, 1,000 pamphlets on
steam development, and 1,000 19th century trade catalogs of steam
machinery.
Early American Industries Association
c/o Elton Hall, Executive Director
167 Bakerville Road
South Dartmouth, MA 02748-4198
Telephone: (508) 993-4198
URL: http://www.eaiainfo.org
The purpose of the Early American Industries Association, Inc.,
is to encourage the study and better understanding of early American
industries in the home, in the shop, on the farm, and on the sea
as well as to discover, identify, classify, preserve and exhibit
obsolete tools, implements, and mechanical devices which were
used in early America.
THE INTERNET
The Internet offers a growing number of sites useful for the
study of the history of science and technology. Most of the organizations
listed above provide links to related sites from their web sites.
It is also possible to find sites using a search engine, such
as AltaVista, Google, or NorthernLight, to locate additional sites.
Suggested terms include "Colonial America" "Early
American Science," "American Inventors," or "Medicine
in18th-Century America." Specific terms such as "textile
mills," as well as names, such as "Benjamin Franklin,"
"Eli Whitney," or "Benjamin Banneker" can
also be used. The following sites may be of interest.
Archiving Early America
URL: http://www.earlyamerica.com
This site is devoted almost exclusively to primary source material
from 18th- Century America. Newspapers, maps, and other materials
are viewable in their original formats.
A Day in the Life of Thomas Jefferson
URL: http://www.monticello.org/jefferson/index.html
This site looks at daily life at Monticello during Jefferson's
time, including the plantation industries. There is a discussion
of his moldboard plough, 18th-Century nail making, and other related
material.
At Home in the Heartland Online
URL: http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits
A virtual museum exhibit about family life in Illinois from 1700
to the present. The section on the 1700's has brief essays on
Native Americans, French settlers and African slaves, and their
lives during this time period. The technology used in daily life
is illustrated.
The Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking
URL: http://www.ipst.edu/amp/
This informative site provides a virtual tour of the history of
paper, with information on early papermaking and mills in the
American colonies.
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