In this Issue

Table of Contents

Introduction

Carroll W. Pursell Jr.
pp. 1-2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1979.a890449
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The American-ness of American Technology

Eugene S. Ferguson
pp. 3-24
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Technological Interdependence in the American Economy

Nathan Rosenberg
pp. 25-50
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From Virginia Dare to Virginia Slims: Women and Technology in American Life

Ruth Schwartz Cowan
pp. 51-63
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Scientific Technology, 1845–1900: The Hydraulic Turbine and the Origins of American Industrial Research

Edwin T. Layton Jr.
pp. 64-89
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Benjamin Holt and the Invention of the Track-Type Tractor

Reynold M. Wik
pp. 90-107
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Canadian Technology: British Traditions and American Influences

Bruce Sinclair
pp. 108-123
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The Electrification of America: The System Builders

Thomas P. Hughes
pp. 124-161
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Government and Technology in the Great Depression

Carroll W. Pursell Jr.
pp. 162-174
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Wood Pulp, Water Pollution, and Advertising

John G. Burke
pp. 175-195
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Der Seigerhüttenprozesz: Die Technologie des Kupferseigerns nach dem frühen metallurgischen Schrifttum by Lothar Suhling (review)

Alexander M. Ospovat
pp. 196-197
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Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton by Martin van Creveld (review)

Clark G. Reynolds
pp. 198-199
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Underwater Warfare in the Age of Sail by Alex Roland (review)

David L. Woods
pp. 199-201
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Building a House in New France by Peter N. Moogk (review)

Sarah M. McKinnon
pp. 202-203
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Architecture and Utopia: Design and Capitalist Development by Manfredo Tafuri (review)

Dolores Hayden
pp. 203-204
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A World with a View: An Inquiry into the Nature of Scenic Values by Christopher Tunnard (review)

Carl W. Condit
pp. 204-205
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Pioneers of Prefabrication: The British Contribution in the Nineteenth Century by Gilbert Herbert (review)

Carl W. Condit
pp. 206-207
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Rockefeller Center by Carol Herselle Krinsky (review)

Carl W. Condit
pp. 207-210
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British Weights and Measures: A History from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century by Ronald Edward Zupko (review)

R. H. Nuttall
pp. 210-211
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Social Change and Scientific Organisation: The Royal Institution, 1799–1844 by Morris Berman (review)

D. G. C. Allan
pp. 211-212
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The Chemical Philosophy: Paracelsian Science and Medicine in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Allen G. Debus (review)

Robert P. Multhauf
pp. 213-214
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Medicine and the Reign of Technology by Stanley Joel Reiser (review)

Patsy A. Gerstner
pp. 214-216
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The Scientific Imagination: Case Studies by Gerald Holton (review)

David Topper
pp. 216-218
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The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change by Thomas S. Kuhn (review)

David Topper
pp. 218-220
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The Social Production of Scientific Knowledge: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook, 1977 ed. by Everett Mendelsohn, et al (review)

Daryl E. Chubin
pp. 221-223
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Research in Economic History: An Annual Compilation of Research ed. by Paul Uselding (review)

Edward P. Duggan
pp. 223-224
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The Evolution of the International Economic Order by Arthur Lewis (review)

Thomas R. De Gregori
p. 225
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The Virginia Journals of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1795–1798 ed. by Edward T. Carter, Angelina Polites (review)

George F. Frick
pp. 226-228
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End of the Line: Alexander J. Cassatt and the Pennsylvania Railroad by Patricia T. Davis (review)

Robert E. Carlson
pp. 228-230
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Twenty-five Engineers and Inventors by Charles Susskind (review)

George Wise
pp. 230-231
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The Toilet Papers: Designs to Recycle Human Waste and Water: Dry Toilets, Greywater Systems, and Urban Sewage by Sim Van der Ryn (review)

Joel A. Tarr
pp. 231-233
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The British Motor Industry, 1896–1939 by Kenneth Richardson (review)

John B. Rae
pp. 233-235
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Faith, Hope and $5,000: The Story of Monsanto by Dan J. Forrestal (review)

John J. Beer
pp. 236-237
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Origins of NASA Names ed. by Helen T. Wells, et al (review)

Roger E. Bilstein
p. 238
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On the Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini by Barton C. Hacker, James M. Grimwood (review)

Mitchell R. Sharpe
pp. 238-240
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Space Colonies ed. by Stewart Brand (review)

Jib Fowles
pp. 240-241
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The Southern Mystique: The Impact Of Technology on Human Values in a Changing Region ed. by W. David Lewis, B. Eugene Griessman (review)

I. B. Holley
pp. 242-244
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The Dialectic of Ideology and Technology: The Origins of Grammar and Future of Ideology by A. W. Gouldner (review)

Marshall McLuhan
pp. 244-246
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The Scientific Intelligentsia in the USSR: Structure and Dynamics of Personnel ed. by D. M. Gvishiani, et al (review)

Bruce Parrott
pp. 246-248
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Sotsial’no-ekonomicheskie problemy istorii razvitogo sotsializma v SSSR [Social and economic problems of the history of developed socialism in the USSR] ed. by M. P. Kim (review)

Samuel Lieberstein
pp. 248-250
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Gateway to Siberian Resources: The BAM by Theodore Shabad, Victor L. Mote (review)

John G. Brainerd
pp. 250-252
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Technology and Communist Culture: The Socio-Cultural Impart of Technology under Socialism ed. by Frederic J. Fleron, Jr (review)

Cyril E. Black
pp. 252-255
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Announcements

p. 256
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1979.a890983
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