Title: Science and technology in nineteenth-century America /
Authors: Timmons, Todd.
Publisher: Greenwood Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Technology United States History; Science United States History
Abstract: Discusses the application of science to technology in this period of history which led to dramatic changes in transportation, communication, work, home, health, and medicine.
Contents: Chronology -- Science and technology in nineteenth-century America : an overview -- Transportation -- Communications -- Out on the farm -- It's off to work we go -- Around the home -- Health and medicine -- Exploring and mapping a new land -- Scientific and technical institutions.