Books
Books : reviews
Gene I. Rochlin, ed.
Scientific Technology and Social Change.
Freeman. 1974
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