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  1. On the Social Explanation of Technical Change: The Case of the Portuguese Maritime Expansion
  2. John Law
  3. pp. 227-252
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  1. Culture and Technological Design in the 19th-Century Pin Industry: John Howe and the Howe Manufacturing Company
  2. Steven Lubar
  3. pp. 253-282
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  1. Science and Engineering Theory in the Invention and Development of the Induction Motor, 1880–1900
  2. Ronald Kline
  3. pp. 283-313
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  1. Gleanings from Oft-Neglected Sources: Institutional History from Technical Documents—the Case of the Naca
  2. Mark Levinson
  3. pp. 314-323
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  1. The Eisen-Bibliothek, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
  2. Thomas J. Misa
  3. pp. 324-327
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  1. The Ghost in the Kitchen: Household Technology at the Brattleboro Museum, Vermont
  2. Carolyn C. Cooper
  3. pp. 328-332
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  1. “The Healing Arts in Early America”—Fraunces Tavern Museum, New York
  2. Audrey B. Davis
  3. pp. 333-336
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  1. The First International Colloquium on the History of Electricity—Paris, April 15–17, 1986
  2. Andrew J. Butrica
  3. pp. 337-339
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  1. R&D Pioneers Conference—Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware, October 7, 1985
  2. John K. Smith
  3. pp. 340-342
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  1. Interface ’85: Humanities and Technology—Atlanta, Georgia, October 17–18, 1985
  2. Robert C. Wess
  3. pp. 343-344
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  1. Science and Civilisation in China. Vol. 5: Chemistry and Chemical Technology. Part 1: Paper and Printing by Tsien Tsuen-Hsuin (review)
  2. Jixing Pan
  3. pp. 345-346
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  1. Dabieshan: Traditional Chinese Iron-Production Techniques Practised in Southern Henan in the Twentieth Century by Donald B. Wagner (review)
  2. William Rostoker
  3. pp. 346-347
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  1. An Early History of Horsemanship by A. Azzaroli (review)
  2. Ellen B. Wells
  3. p. 348
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  1. Science and Technology in Medieval Society ed. by Pamela O. Long (review)
  2. George Ovitt Jr.
  3. pp. 349-350
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  1. Siege Warfare. Vol. 2: The Fortress in the Age of Vauban and Frederick the Great 1660–1789 by Christopher Duffy (review)
  2. Janis Langins
  3. pp. 350-351
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  1. L’Industrie sidérurgique en France pendant la Revolution et l’Empire by Denis Woronoff (review)
  2. Christopher E. Guthrie
  3. pp. 352-353
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  1. French Iron Architecture by Frances H. Steiner (review)
  2. Robert Mark
  3. pp. 354-355
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  1. Economic Expansion and Social Change: England 1500–1700. Vol. 1: People, Land and Towns; vol. 2: Industry, Trade and Government by Christopher G. A. Clay (review)
  2. J. R. Harris
  3. pp. 355-357
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1987.a889414
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  1. The Economy of British America, 1607–1789 by John J. McCusker, Russell R. Menard (review)
  2. Richard L. Bushman
  3. pp. 357-359
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  1. Technology and the Canadian Mind: Innis/McLuhan/Grant by Arthur Kroker (review)
  2. Susan Sheets-Pyenson, Mary Vipond
  3. pp. 359-360
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  1. Technology on the Frontier: Mining in Old Ontario by Dianne Newell (review)
  2. Otis E Young Jr.
  3. pp. 361-362
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  1. The Miners of Decazeville: A Genealogy of Deindustrialization by Donald Reid (review)
  2. Cynthia Gay Bindocci
  3. pp. 362-363
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  1. Textiles in America 1650–1870 by Florence M. Montgomery (review)
  2. Philip B. Scranton
  3. pp. 363-364
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  1. Silk City: Studies on the Paterson Silk Industry, 1860–1940 ed. by Philip B. Scranton (review)
  2. Anthony F. C. Wallace
  3. p. 365
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  1. The Mechanics of Baltimore: Workers and Politics in the Age of Revolution, 1763–1812 by Charles G. Steffen, and: The Practice of Solidarity: American Hat Finishers in the Nineteenth Century by David Bensman (review)
  2. William S. Pretzer
  3. pp. 366-368
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.1987.a889421
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  1. Labor’s True Woman: Carpet Weavers, Industrialization, and Labor Reform in the Gilded Age by Susan Levine (review)
  2. Gail F. Mohanty
  3. pp. 368-369
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  1. Essays from the Lowell Conference on Industrial History 1982 and 1983: The Arts and Industrialism/The Industrial City ed. by Robert Weible (review)
  2. Betsy W. Bahr
  3. pp. 369-371
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  1. Agricultural Science and the Quest for Legitimacy: Farmers, Agricultural Colleges, and Experiment Stations, 1870–1890 by Alan I. Marcus (review)
  2. Pete Daniel
  3. pp. 371-372
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  1. Fertilizer in America: From Waste Recycling to Resource Exploitation by Richard A. Wines (review)
  2. Stuart Galishoff
  3. pp. 372-373
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  1. Coping with Abundance: Energy and Environment in Industrial America by Martin V. Melosi (review)
  2. Jeffrey K. Stine
  3. p. 374
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  1. The Morality of Spending: Attitudes toward the Consumer Society in America, 1875–1940 by Daniel Horowitz (review)
  2. Rosalind Williams
  3. pp. 375-376
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  1. The Public Landscape of the New Deal by Phoebe Cutler (review)
  2. Karal Ann Marling
  3. pp. 377-378
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  1. Automobile and Culture by Gerald Silk, et al (review)
  2. Charles K. Hyde
  3. pp. 378-379
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  1. The Japanese Automobile Industry: Technology and Management at Nissan and Toyota by Michael A. Cusumano (review)
  2. John B. Rae
  3. pp. 380-381
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  1. Prelude to the Space Age: The Rocket Societies, 1924–1940 by Frank H. Winter (review)
  2. Roger E. Bilstein
  3. pp. 381-382
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  1. Air Warfare in the Missile Age by Lon O. Nordeen, Jr (review)
  2. Dominick Graham
  3. pp. 383-384
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  1. The Evolution of the Cruise Missile by Kenneth P. Werrell (review)
  2. Virginia H. Sahm
  3. pp. 384-386
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  1. A Spacefaring People: Perspectives on Early Spaceflight ed. by Alex Roland (review)
  2. Gerald Johns
  3. pp. 386-387
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  1. The Management of Research Institutions: A Look at Government Laboratories by Hans Mark, Arnold Levine (review)
  2. James R. Hansen
  3. pp. 387-390
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  1. Searching the Horizon: A History of Ames Research Center 1940–1976 by Elizabeth A. Muenger (review)
  2. Wm. David Compton
  3. pp. 390-391
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  1. Controlling the Atom: The Beginnings of Nuclear Regulation 1946–1962 by George T. Mazuzan, J. Samuel Walker (review)
  2. Barton G. Hacker
  3. pp. 391-392
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  1. By the Bomb’s Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age by Paul Boyer (review)
  2. J. Samuel Walker
  3. pp. 393-394
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  1. The Man-Made Sun: The Quest for Fusion Power by T. A. Heppenheimer (review)
  2. Bruce R. Wheaton
  3. pp. 394-395
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  1. Organized Technology: Networks and Innovation in Technical Systems by Wesley Shrum (review)
  2. Peter Weingart
  3. pp. 396-397
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  1. Die Bewertung des Technischen Fortschritts: Eine systematische Übersicht der Theorien by Johan Hendrik Jacob van der Pot (review)
  2. Wolfhard Weber
  3. pp. 397-398
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  1. The Growth of Minds and Cultures: A Unified Theory of the Structure of Human Experience by Willem H. Vanderburg (review)
  2. Kathleen H. Ochs
  3. pp. 399-400
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  1. Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (1985)
  2. Stephen H. Cutcliffe, Christine M. Roysdon, Judith A. Adams
  3. pp. 401-538
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