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Leonardo to the Internet : technology & culture from the Renaissance to the present / Thomas J. Misa.

By: Series: Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology (Unnumbered)Publication details: Baltimore [Md.] : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xxii, 378 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781421401546 (alk. paper)
  • 1421401541 (alk. paper)
  • 9781421401539 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1421401533 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 609.03 22
LOC classification:
  • T15 .M575 2011
Contents:
Technologies of the court, 1450-1600 -- Techniques of commerce, 1588-1740 -- Geographies of industry, 1740-1851 -- Instruments of empire, 1840-1914 -- Science and systems, 1870-1930 -- Materials of modernism, 1900-1950 -- The means of destruction, 1936-1990 -- Toward global culture, 1970-2001 -- Paths to insecurity -- The question of technology.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-363) and index.

Technologies of the court, 1450-1600 -- Techniques of commerce, 1588-1740 -- Geographies of industry, 1740-1851 -- Instruments of empire, 1840-1914 -- Science and systems, 1870-1930 -- Materials of modernism, 1900-1950 -- The means of destruction, 1936-1990 -- Toward global culture, 1970-2001 -- Paths to insecurity -- The question of technology.

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