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Lecture Notes

SES # TOPICS
1 Introduction
2 What is Technology? (PDF)
3 Technologies of Colonization and Conquest (PDF)
4

Crafts and Craftsmanship in Early America (PDF)

  • Notes on Film: Gunsmith of Williamsburg. (PDF)
5 Homespun, Guns, and Shovels: Artifacts from a Transitional Age (PDF)
6 Politics and Early American Industrialization (PDF)
7 Textiles, Firearms, and the Role of the State in Early American Industry (PDF)
8 Social and Political Implications of the New Technology (PDF)
9 The Transportation Revolution (PDF)
10 Art and Industrialization (PDF)
11 The Emerging Culture of Engineering
12 Technology, Civil War, and the Rise of Big Business (PDF)
14 Human Machines? Taylorism
15 Automobility and Mass Production (PDF)
16 Autos, Trucks, and American Culture
18 Hobbyist Worlds and Modern America
19 Aeronautics and the Systems Approach
20 World War II: A Technological Turning Point?
22 A New World: Technology in Coldwar America
23 Computers and Control
24 Nature's Revenge
25 Technology and Popular Culture
26 Technology and Terrorism: Sept. 11