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Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology volume new ser., no. 10
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
©1990
Language
English
Description
The story of Edison, the businessman, industrialist, and successful manager of one of the world's largest industrial research laboratories.
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Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology volume new ser., no. 13
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
©1992
Language
English
Description
When he died suddenly at the height of his fame in 1923, his face was as familiar to Americans as that of Babe Ruth, Henry Ford, Jack Dempsey, or Warren G. Harding. Newspapers quoted his views on religion, politics (he was a Socialist), science, and future technological wonders. All were intrigued by the Horatio Alger tale of the penniless, hunchbacked German immigrant who rose to fame as the Wizard of Science, chief engineer at General Electric,...
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Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology volume new ser., no. 15
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
©1993
Language
English
Description
Studies of American industry frequently cite Lowell, Massachusetts, as an early model for business practices. Scholars have sought to explain the city's rise to prominence, the impact of its textile mills on workers and on commerce, and its part in regional development and American prosperity. In The Course of Industrial Decline, historian Laurence Gross looks beyond these issues. Focusing on Lowell's Boott Cotton Mills, he examines the industry's...
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Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology volume new. ser., no. 22
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
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Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology volume new ser., no. 23
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
In this groundbreaking study, Gail Cooper shows that, from the outset, air conditioning has been the focus of conflict and controversy - well predating today's concerns about fluorocarbons and global warming. When at the turn of the century a technical elite of designers, inventors, and corporate pioneers launched this promising new technology, their ideas were challenged by workers, consumers, government regulators, business competitors, and rival...
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
"In Steam Laundries, Arwen Mohun traces the industry's development from the first commercial laundries in the 1840s to their decline in the 1950s. That trajectory, she argues, took shape within the constraints of what was technologically possible and culturally acceptable. Rising standards of cleanliness, new kinds of machinery, and an increasingly polluted urban environment provided the context for the industry's emergence. The shortcomings of applying...
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Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology volume new ser., no. 24
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
The author explores hysteria in Western medicine throughout the ages and examines the characterization of female sexuality as a disease requiring treatment. Medical authorities, she writes, were able to defend and justify the clinical production of orgasm in women as necessary to maintain the dominant view of sexuality, which defined sex as penetration to male orgasm - a practice that consistently fails to produce orgasm in a majority of the female...
Author
Publisher
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
"In this study, Rayvon Fouche examines the life and work of three African Americans: Granville Woods (1856-1910), an independent inventor; Lewis Latimer (1848-1928), a corporate engineer with General Electric; and Shelby Davidson (1868-1930), who worked in the U.S. Treasury Department. Detailing the difficulties and human frailties that make their achievements all the more impressive, Fouche explains how each man used invention for financial gain,...
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English
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This book is the author's history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped, and have been shaped by, the cultures in which they arose. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industrial revolutions, as well as the more recent eras of imperialism, modernism, and global security, this work evaluates what the author, a historian, calls "the...
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Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"This account of the politics and economics of the giant military supply project in the North reconstructs an important but little known part of Civil War history. Drawing on new and extensive research in army and business archives, Mark R. Wilson offers a fresh view of the wartime North and the ways in which its economy worked when the Lincoln administration, with unprecedented military effort, moved to suppress the rebellion. Students of the American...
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English
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This illuminating history explores the complex relationship between mathematics, religious belief, and Victorian culture.
Throughout history, application rather than abstraction has been the prominent driving force in mathematics. From the compass and sextant to partial differential equations, mathematical advances were spurred by the desire for better navigation tools, weaponry, and construction methods. But the religious upheaval in Victorian England...
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English
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An "insightful" account of the early fossil fuel industry, the rise of the professional consultant, and the nexus between science and money (Technology and Culture).
In this impressively researched, highly original work, Paul Lucier explains how science became an integral part of American technology and industry in the nineteenth century. Scientists and Swindlers introduces us to a new service of professionals: the consulting scientists. Lucier follows...
18) Structures of change in the mechanical age: technological innovation in the United States, 1790-1865
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"In September 1878, Thomas Alva Edison brashly-and prematurely-proclaimed his breakthrough invention of a workable electric light. That announcement was followed by many months of intense experimentation that led to the successful completion of his Pearl Street station four years later. Edison was not alone-nor was he first-in developing an incandescent light bulb, but his was the most successful of all competing inventions. Drawing from the documents...
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English
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An in-depth look at Revere's great contribution to American history: his work in helping the nation develop from a craft to an industrial economy.
Paul Revere's ride to warn the colonial militia of the British march on Lexington and Concord is a legendary contribution to the American Revolution. Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn reveals another side of this American hero's life: that of a transformational entrepreneur instrumental in the industrial...