Leonardo to the Internet
Subtitle: technology & culture from the Renaissance to the present
By: Thomas J. Misa
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology; Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology (Unnumbered)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baltimore [Md.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9781421401546; 9781421401539
Subjects: Technology and civilization; Technology; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-363) and index.
Table of contents: title: Technologies of the court, 1450-1600; title: Techniques of commerce, 1588-1740; title: Geographies of industry, 1740-1851; title: Instruments of empire, 1840-1914; title: Science and systems, 1870-1930; title: Materials of modernism, 1900-1950; title: The means of destruction, 1936-1990; title: Toward global culture, 1970-2001; title: Paths to insecurity; title: The question of technology.