Bücher der Reihe Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology

By mastering founding, fining, puddling, or bloom smelting, ironworkers gained a degree of control over their lives not easily attained by others.

This is compelling reading for British historians, environmental scholars, historians of technology, and anyone interested in state formation in early modern Europe.

He reveals massive logistical operations as critical in determining the war's outcome.

Far from being a record of southern failure, Lakwete concludes, the cotton gin-correctly understood-supplies evidence that the slave labor-based antebellum South innovated, industrialized, and modernized.

To the Digital Age offers a captivating account of the intricate R & D process behind a technological device that transformed modern society.

With this book, Hochfelder supplies us with an introduction to the early stirrings of the information age.

Tells the history of the facsimile machine. The author recounts the multigenerational, multinational history of that device from its origins to its workplace glory days, in the process revealing how it helped create the accelerated communications, information flow, and vibrant visual culture that characterize our contemporary world.

The evolution and persistence of the "battleship navy,he argues, offer direct insight into the dominance of the aircraft-carrier paradigm after 1945 and into the twenty-first century.

A Nation of Steel offers a detailed and fascinating look at an industry that has had a profound impact on American life.

Focusing attention on gravity-fed water-flow systems in mediaeval cities and monasteries, this is a study of water technology in the Middle Ages. Roberta J. Magnusson challenges the view that hydraulic engineering died with the Romans and remained moribund until the Renaissance.

Otto Mayr, the director of Germany's leading technological museum, explores the relationship between machinery, technological thought, and culture. Contrasting England and the Continent, particularly in the eighteenth century, he uncovers a stikring pattern of technological metaphors applied to political systems-and lays the foundations of a new intellectual history of technology

Describes the struggles of three African American men who try to balance racial identity with a desire to be judged solely on the merit of their inventive work. This book provides a nuanced view of African American contributors to technology during a period of rapid industrialization.

To solve their design problems, engineers draw on a vast body of knowledge about how things work. Examining previously unstudied historical cases, this author shows how engineering knowledge is obtained and presents a model to help explain the growth of such knowledge.

From extensive research in the Edison archives at West Orange, New Jersey, Andre Millard presents new information about Edison the businessman and provides new interpretations of old issues.

Douglas reveals the origins of a corporate media system that today dominates the content and form of American communication.

Hall details the efforts of armorers across Europe as they experimented with a variety of gunpowder recipes and gunsmithing techniques, and he examines the integration of new weapons into the existing structure of European warfare.

The increased textile demands of World War II, Gross explains, only forestalled the mills' inevitable demise.

This is a biography of a major American inventor. Elmer Sperry contributed greatly to the technological changes occurring between 1880 and 1930. Characteristic of his various inventions were feedback controls which have made automation a fact of life.

The British-American comparison further reveals differences owing to culture, regulation, and social structure as well as the unexpected transatlantic character of this seemingly localized business.

She examines advancements in water-supply and waste-management technology, the architectural considerations these amenities entailed, and the scientific approach to sanitation that began to emerge by century's end.

And they show how, by the 1990s, the research results had been assimilated into systems both for the military and for civilian society.

Images and Enterprise vividly portrays the emergence of cinematography in its relationship to traditional photography and reveals the growing importance of institutionalized research, as Eastman Kodak and the other American and European photographic materials manufacturers strove to develop commercially practical color photography.

Students of the American Civil War will welcome this fresh study of military-industrial production and procurement on the home front-long an obscure topic.

In The Technology of Orgasm, Rachel Maines offers readers a stimulating, surprising, and often humorous account of hysteria and its treatment throughout the ages, focusing on the development, use, and fall into disrepute of the vibrator as a legitimate medical device.

Spanning more than 2000 years, Terry Reynolds's account follows the progression of this labor-saving device from Asia to the Middle East, Europe, and America-covering the evolution of the water wheel itself, the development of dams and reservoirs, and the applications of water power.