Technology in America: A History of Individuals and Ideas (The MIT Press) - Softcover

 
9780262535779: Technology in America: A History of Individuals and Ideas (The MIT Press)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0262535777 ISBN 13: 9780262535779
Verlag: MIT Press, 2018

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The new edition of a popular collection that traces the history of American invention from the age of the artisan to the era of Silicon Valley.

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Carroll Pursell is Adeline Barry Davee Distinguished Professor of History (Emeritus) at Case Western Reserve University and Distinguished Honorary Professor of History at the Australian National University.

Merritt Roe Smith is Cutten Professor of the History of Technology at MIT and the author or editor of six books, most recently Inventing America: A History of the United States.

Bruce Sinclair, formerly Melvin Kranzberg Professor of the History of Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is a Senior Fellow at the Dibner Institute at MIT. He has served as president of the Society for the History of Technology and received its Da Vinci Medal.

Carroll Pursell is Adeline Barry Davee Distinguished Professor of History (Emeritus) at Case Western Reserve University and Distinguished Honorary Professor of History at the Australian National University.

Thomas P. Hughes is Professor of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Carroll Pursell is Adeline Barry Davee Distinguished Professor of History (Emeritus) at Case Western Reserve University and Distinguished Honorary Professor of History at the Australian National University.

James J. Flink is an affiliate of the Institute of Transportation Studies and Professor of Comparative Culture at the University of California, Irvine.

Carroll Pursell is Adeline Barry Davee Distinguished Professor of History (Emeritus) at Case Western Reserve University and Distinguished Honorary Professor of History at the Australian National University.

Lawrence Badash was Professor Emeritus of History of Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He authored Kapitza, Rutherford, and the Kremlin and Scientists and the Development of Nuclear Weapons: From Fission to the Limited Test Ban Treaty.

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'Technology In America' cover the history of American invention from Thomas Jefferson's founding of the Patent Office to Robert Goddard's space-age rockets. Each treats an individual and a concept, highlighting the important role technological change has played in the evolution of American culture.

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Verlag
MIT Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0262535777
ISBN 13 
9780262535779
Einband
Tapa blanda
Auflage
3
Anzahl der Seiten
356
Herausgeber
Pursell Carroll
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