author : Gene I. Rochlin

Contents

• Sherwood L. Washburn. Tools and Human Evolution. 1960

tools first; humans later

• Stuart Piggott. The Beginnings of Wheeled transport. 1968

5000 year old wagons

• Lynn White Jr. Medieval Uses of Air. 1970

blast furnace, windmill, suction pump, glider, gas turbine, parachute

• Otto Mayr. The Origins of Feedback Control. 1970

water clock, thermostat, windmill

• S. S. Wilson. Bicycle Technology. 1973

ball bearing, pneumatic tyre, tubular construction

• Eugene S. Ferguson. The Origins of the Steam Engine. 1964

Thomas Newcomen, water pumps

• Harold I. Sharlin. From Faraday to the Dynamo. 1961

why it took 50 years

• Asa Briggs. Technology and Economic Development. 1963

• Lynwood Bryant. The Origin of the Automobile Engine. 1967

the "Silent Otto" of 1876

• Lynwood Bryant. Rudolph Diesel and His Rational Engine. 1969

• Matthew Josephson. The Invention of the Electric Light. 1959

Thomas Edison

• George Shiers. The First Electron Tube. 1969

John Ambrose Fleming, 1904, thermionic vacuum diode

• Walter Hossli. Steam Turbines. 1969

• D. L. Slotnick. The Fastest Computer. 1971

ILLIAC IV, 64 processors, 100-200 MIPS

• Herbert Scoville Jr. Missile Submarines and National Security. 1972

• Herbert F. York. Multiple-Warhead Missiles. 1973

MIRV, Multiple Independently targeted Reentry Vehicle

• Anne P. Carter. The Economics of Technological Change. 1966

• John McCarthy. Information. 1966

computers enable technology to adapt to human diversity

• William F. Hamilton II, Dana K. Nance. Systems Analysis of Urban Transportation. 1969

personal versus mass transit

• John R. Pierce. Communication. 1972

• M. King Hubbert. The Energy Resources of the Earth. 1971

solar, tides, geothermal, fission, fusion

• Earl Cook. The Flow of Energy in an Idustrial Society. 1971

limited by disposal of waste heat

• John F. Hogerton. The Arrical of Nuclear Power. 1968

• Glenn T. Seaborg, Justin L. Bloom. Fast Breeder Reactors. 1970

nuclaer reactors that use fast neutrons to produce more fuel than they consume

• William C. Gough, Bernard J. Eastlund. The Prospects of Fusion Power. 1971

very close to "break even"

• S. Fred Singer. Human Energy Production as a Process in the Biosphere. 1970

using fossil and nuclear fuels accelerates slow cycles of nature

• Stanley W. Angrist. Perpetual Motion Machines. 1968

400 years of inventions

• Claude M. Summers. The Conversion of Energy. 1971

• John R. Clark. Thermal Pollution and Aquatic Life. 1969

using river and lake water for industrial cooling

• Riley D. Woodson. Cooling Towers. 1971

• William P. Lowry. The Climate of Cities. 1967