Pursell, Carroll W. (Editor)
Description Contents: Ch. 1. Early American technological possessions. “So much depends upon a Red wheelbarrow”: Agricultural tool owndership in the Eighteenth-century Mid-Atlantic / Judith A. McGaw -- Document A: American Colonial wealth: documents and methods / Alice Hanson Jones --Ch. 2. Fighting technological change. Dam-breaking in the 19th-century Merrimack Valley: water, social conflict, and the Waltham-Lowell Mills / Theodore L. Steinberg -- Document A: Winnipisiogee Lake Company v. Worster -- Document B: Great Falls v. James Worster -- Ch. 3. The workplace as an ecological system. Working environments: an ecological approach to industrial health and safety / Arthur F. McEvoy -- document A: Nicholas Farwell v. The Boston and worcester Rail Road Corporation -- Document B: Is it safe to work? A Study of industrial accidents / Edison L. Bowers -- Document C: Edward J. Beshada v. Johns-Manville Products Corporation --Ch. 4. Sexuality, women, and the social camouflage of technology. Socially camouflaged technologies: the case of the electromechanical vibrator / Rachel Maines -- Document A: Improvement in medical rubbing apparaturs / Geroge H. Taylor -- Document B: Mechanical vibration and its therapeutic application / M. L. H. Arnold Snow -- Document C: a brief guide to vibratory technique / Noble M. Eberhart -- Document D: Profitable office specialities / A. Dale Covey -- Document E: Enjoy life! -- Ch. 5. The culture of engineers. Local history and national culture: notions on engineering professionalism in America / Bruce Sinclair -- Document A: Some notes on vocational guidance / J. A. L. Waddell -- Document B: unemplyed engineers, 1932 / J. P. H. Perry -- Ch. 6. Technology on the farm -- Out of the barns and into the kitchens: transformations in farm women's work in the first half of the twentieth century / Christine Kleinegger -- Document A: Social and labor needs of farm women -- Document B: Power on the farm / Guy E. Tripp -- Document C: The farm house / Newell Leroy Sims -- Ch. 7. “Selling” nuclear energy. Advertising the Atom / Michael smith -- Document A: Atomic power development and private enterprise -- Document B: Environmental effects of producing electric power -- Document C: Nuclear public relations campaign -- Ch. 8 Race and technological change. Race and tecnology: African American women in the Bell System, 1945-1980 / Venus Green -- Document A: It's the wrong hat! -- Document B: Telephone industry employment by race and sex, 1930-1970 -- Ch. 9. Appropriate technologies. The rise and fall of the appropriate technology movement in the United States, 1965-1985 / Carroll Pursell - Document A: Technical assistance for the underdeveloped areas of the world -- Document B: Purpose, organizations, and activities / State of California Office of Appropirate Technology -- Document D: An introduction and a history? National Center for appropriate technology -- Document E: Solar energy research: making solar after the Nuclear model? / Allen L. Hammond and William D. Metz -- Ch. 10. Toward Technoliteracy -- Hacking away at the counterculture / Andrew Ross. (from WorldCat)
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