American Technology [Paperback]

American Technology brings together ten fascinating and important stories of the ways in which Americans, from colonial times to the present, have embraced, rejected, interacted with, and understood the technologies with which they have lived and worked. Topics include the colonial home, the shop floor, the doctor's office, and the telephone exchange, as well as New England mill-sites, nuclear power, and the Internet. Each scholarly account is accompanied by primary documents and a list of further readings.Series Editor's Preface.

Introduction.

1. Introduction.

So Much Depends Upon a Red Wheelbarrow: Agricultural Tool Ownership in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic : Judith A. McGaw.

Document: Selections from American Colonial Wealth: Documents and Methods: Alice Hanson Jones.

Further Reading.

2. Introduction.

Dam-Breaking in the 19th-Century Merrimack Valley: Water, Social Conflict, and the Waltham-Lowell Mills: Theodore L. Steinberg.

Documents A: Winnipissiogee Lake Company v. Worster.

Document B: Great Falls Manufacturing Company v. Worster.

Further Reading.

3. Introduction.

Working Environments: An Ecological Approach to Industrial Health and Safety: Arthur F. McEvoy.

Document A: Nicholas Farwell vs. The Boston and Worster Rail Road Corporation.

Document B: Edison L. Bowers, Is It Safe to Work? A Study of Industrial Accidents.

Document C: Edward J. Beshada et al. V. Johns-Manville Products Corporation.

Further Reading.

4. Introduction.

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