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Technology of Orgasm
"Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction
Häftad, 2001
327 kr
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From the time of Hippocrates until the 1920s, massaging female patients to orgasm was a staple of medical practice among Western physicians in the treatment of "hysteria," an ailment once considered both common and chronic in women. Doctors loathed this time-consuming procedure and for centuries …
Images and Enterprise
Technology and the American Photographic Industry, 1839-1925
Häftad, 1987
556 kr
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From the early daguerreotype to the rise of the motion picture, Images and Enterprise explores the business, technical, and social factors that transformed the American photographic industry between 1839 and 1925. Reese Jenkins's prize-winning history traces the technical changes that culminated in …
Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922
Häftad, 1989
434 kr
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Such organizations as AT&T, General Electric, and the U.S. Navy played major roles in radio's evolution, but early press coverage may have decisively steered radio in the direction of mass entertainment. Susan J. Douglas reveals the origins of a corporate media system that today dominates the …
Authority, Liberty, and Automatic Machinery in Early Modern Europe
Av Otto Mayr
Häftad, 1989
468 kr
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Perhaps never in history has society been so fascinated with a single machine as when, in early modern Europe, the clock evolved into a major cultural image, widely used in literature, science, and especially Cartesian philosophy. Yet in England, there was greater interest in a different class of …
What Engineers Know and How They Know It
Analytical Studies from Aeronautical History
Häftad, 1993
374 kr
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To solve their design problems engineers draw in a vast body of knowledge about how things work. This problem-solving knowledge may appear mundane or derivative from science, but in What Engineers Know and How They Know It Walter G. Vincenti shows how sophisticated and "internal" to engineering it …
Edison and the Business of Innovation
Häftad, 1993
561 kr
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This is the story of the "other" Thomas Edison-not the heroic lone inventor, but Edison the businessman, industrialist, and successful manager of one of the world's largest industrial research laboratories. Tracing his career from his boyhood to his death in 1931, Edison and the Business of …
Elmer Sperry
Inventor and Engineer
Häftad, 1993
604 kr
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This is a biography of a major American inventor, who obtained more than 350 patents during his lifetime. Elmer Sperry contributed greatly to the technological changes occurring between 1880 and 1930. He was best known for the Sperry gyrocompass and automatic pilot, and his inventions included …
Nation of Steel
The Making of Modern America, 1865-1925
Häftad, 1998
536 kr
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From the age of railroads through the building of the first battleships, from the first skyscrapers to the dawning of the age of the automobile, steelmakers proved central to American industry, building, and transportation. In A Nation of Steel Thomas Misa explores the complex interactions between …
Course of Industrial Decline
The Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1835-1955
Häftad, 2000
468 kr
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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. …
Transforming Computer Technology
Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986
Av Arthur L. Norberg, Judy E. O'Neill
Häftad, 2000
561 kr
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Over the course of several decades, the Pentagon's Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) helped transform computing from a cumbersome enterprise based on batch processing to the instantly interactive, graphically rich, highly intelligent computing of today. With the purpose of improving …
All the Modern Conveniences
American Household Plumbing, 1840-1890
Av Maureen Ogle
Häftad, 2000
468 kr
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As any American who has traveled abroad knows, the American home contains more, and more elaborate, plumbing than any other in the world. Indeed, Americans are renowned for their obsession with cleanliness. Although plumbing has occupied a central position in American life since the mid-nineteenth …
Water Technology in the Middle Ages
Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks after the Roman Empire
Inbunden, 2002
687 kr
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Focusing attention on gravity-fed water-flow systems in medieval cities and monasteries, Water Technology in the Middle Ages: Cities, Monasteries, and Waterworks after the Roman Empire challenges the view that hydraulic engineering died with the Romans and remained moribund until the Renaissance. …
Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe
Gunpowder, Technology, and Tactics
Av Bert S. Hall
Häftad, 2002
426 kr
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Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe explores the history of gunpowder in Europe from the thirteenth century, when it was first imported from China, to the sixteenth century, as firearms became central to the conduct of war. Bridging the fields of military history and the history of technology …
Steam Laundries
Gender, Technology, and Work in the United States and Great Britain, 1880–1940
Häftad, 2003
430 kr
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Laundries were once ubiquitous in British and American cities-products of the same historical process that created steel mills and railroads. Unlike the more familiar examples of industrialization, these cleanliness factories remained powerfully identified with domesticity. In Steam Laundries, …
Stronger than a Hundred Men
A History of the Vertical Water Wheel
Häftad, 2003
487 kr
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Like many apparently simple devices, the vertical water wheel has been around for so long that it is taken for granted. Yet this "picturesque artifact" was for centuries man's primary mechanical source of power and was the foundation upon which mills and other industries developed. Stronger than a …
Between Human and Machine
Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics
Häftad, 2004
457 kr
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Today, we associate the relationship between feedback, control, and computing with Norbert Wiener's 1948 formulation of cybernetics. But the theoretical and practical foundations for cybernetics, control engineering, and digital computing were laid earlier, between the two world wars. In Between …
Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation
Granville T. Woods, Lewis H. Latimer, and Shelby J. Davidson
Häftad, 2005
406 kr
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According to the stereotype, late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century inventors, quintessential loners and supposed geniuses, worked in splendid isolation and then unveiled their discoveries to a marveling world. Most successful inventors of this era, however, developed their ideas within the …
Inventing the Cotton Gin
Machine and Myth in Antebellum America
Häftad, 2005
468 kr
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"The cotton gin animates the American imagination in unique ways. It evokes no images of antique machinery or fluffy fiber but rather scenes of victimized slaves and battlefield dead. It provokes the suspicion that had Eli Whitney never invented the gin, United States history would have been …
To the Digital Age
Research Labs, Start-up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology
Häftad, 2007
430 kr
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The metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor is the fundamental element of digital electronics. The tens of millions of transistors in a typical home-in personal computers, automobiles, appliances, and toys-are almost all derive from MOS transistors. To the Digital Age examines for the first time …
Civil War Ironclads
The U.S. Navy and Industrial Mobilization
Häftad, 2007
389 kr
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Civil War Ironclads supplies the first comprehensive study of one of the most ambitious programs in the history of naval shipbuilding. In constructing its new fleet of ironclads, William H. Roberts explains, the U.S. Navy faced the enormous engineering challenges of a largely experimental …
Scientists and Swindlers
Consulting on Coal and Oil in America, 1820–1890
Av Paul Lucier
Inbunden, 2009
830 kr
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In this impressively researched and 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 these …
Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn
Paul Revere and the Growth of American Enterprise
Inbunden, 2010
844 kr
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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 …
Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865–1945
Häftad, 2010
544 kr
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Navies have always been technologically sophisticated, from the ancient world's trireme galleys and the Age of Sail's ships-of-the-line to the dreadnoughts of World War I and today's nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines. Yet each large technical innovation has met with resistance and …
Business of Civil War
Military Mobilization and the State, 1861–1865
Häftad, 2010
418 kr
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This wide-ranging, original 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 …
Making Tobacco Bright
Creating an American Commodity, 1617–1937
Inbunden, 2012
787 kr
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In her sweeping history of the American tobacco industry, Barbara Hahn traces the emergence of the tobacco plant's many varietal types, arguing that they are products not of nature but of economic relations and continued and intense market regulation. Hahn focuses her study on the most popular of …
Telegraph in America, 1832–1920
Inbunden, 2013
804 kr
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Telegraphy in the nineteenth century approximated the internet in our own day. Historian and electrical engineer David Hochfelder offers readers a comprehensive history of this groundbreaking technology, which employs breaks in an electrical current to send code along miles of wire. The Telegraph …
Faxed
The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine
Inbunden, 2015
661 kr
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Faxed is the first history of the facsimile machine-the most famous recent example of a tool made obsolete by relentless technological innovation. Jonathan Coopersmith recounts the multigenerational, multinational history of the device from its origins to its workplace glory days, in the process …
FastLane
Managing Science in the Internet World
Av Thomas J. Misa, Jeffrey R. Yost
Inbunden, 2016
459 kr
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Since 2000, the National Science Foundation has depended upon its pioneering FastLane e-government system to manage grant applications, peer reviews, and reporting. In this behind-the-scenes account Thomas J. Misa and Jeffrey R. Yost examine how powerful forces of science and computing came …
Engineering Victory
How Technology Won the Civil War
Inbunden, 2016
634 kr
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Engineering Victory brings a fresh approach to the question of why the North prevailed in the Civil War. Historian Thomas F. Army, Jr., identifies strength in engineering-not superior military strategy or industrial advantage-as the critical determining factor in the war's outcome. Army finds that …
Faxed
The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine
Häftad, 2016
443 kr
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Faxed is the first history of the facsimile machine-the most famous recent example of a tool made obsolete by relentless technological innovation. Jonathan Coopersmith recounts the multigenerational, multinational history of the device from its origins to its workplace glory days, in the process …
