Title: From know-how to nowhere : the development of American technology /
Authors: Morison, Elting E.
Publisher: Basic Books ;
Year: 1974
Subjects: Technology United States History
Contents: The rule of thumb -- Some introductory remarks -- Building things in early America -- The works of John B. Jervis -- John Fritz and the Three High Rail Mill -- The state of the art in 1860 -- Ideas come to power -- Plumbing the reservoirs of knowledge -- Tying practice to theory: the tungsten filament -- The parable of the ships at sea -- Some notes on visions.