Test Bank A Social History of American Technology 2nd Edition by Ruth Schwartz CowanHersch

Test Bank A Social History of American Technology 2nd Edition by Ruth Schwartz CowanHersch

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Test Bank A Social History of American Technology 2nd Edition by Ruth Schwartz CowanHersch

A Social History of American Technology 2nd Edition tells the story of American technology from the tools used by its earliest inhabitants to the technological systems—cars and computers, aircraft and antibiotics—that we are familiar with today. The authors demonstrate how technological change has always been closely related to social and economic development​

ISBN-10: 0195387260
ISBN-13: 9780195387261

Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Matthew H. Hersch

Table Of Contents
Introduction: The Origins of American Technology
1. The Land, the Natives, and the Settlers
2. Agricultural and Craft Work in the Colonies
3. From Farm to Factory
4. Transportation Revolutions
5. Technological Systems and Industrial Society
6. Everyday Labor in the Mechanical Age
7. Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Engineers
8. Automobiles and Automobility
9. Taxpayers, Generals, and Aerospace
10. Electronic Communication and Social Control​