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The following table presents a selection of lecture outlines.
Lecture notes files.
| Lec # |
Topics |
LECTURE NOTES |
| 1 |
Introduction |
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| 2 |
What is Technology? |
What is Technology? (PDF)# |
| 3 |
Technologies of Colonization and Conquest |
Technology in Colonial America (PDF)# |
| 4 |
Crafts and Craftsmanship in Early America |
Crafts and Craftsmanship in Early America (PDF)#
Discussion of Film The Gunsmith of Williamsburg (PDF)# |
| 5 |
Paul Revere: Technologist?
Guest Speaker: Prof. Rob Martello (Olin College) |
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| 6 |
Politics and Early American Industrialization |
Technology and Nationalism, 1789-1825 (PDF) |
| 7 |
The Role of the State in Early American Industry |
From Swords to Ploughshares: The Development of Interchangeable Parts, 1798-1850 (PDF) |
| 8 |
Social and Political Implications of the New Technology |
Technology and Politics (PDF) |
| 9 |
The Transportation and Communications Revolution
First Reading Quiz |
'System/Order/Uniformity': Army Engineers and the Rise of Modern Management (PDF) |
| 10 |
Art and Industrialization |
The Railroad as a Technological Symbol in American Art (PDF) |
| 11 |
The Emerging Culture of Engineering in America |
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| 12 |
Technology in the Civil War Era |
Technology, Civil War, and the War's Larger Implications (PDF) |
| 13 |
Technology in the Civil War Era (cont.) |
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| 14 |
Human Machines? Frederick W. Taylor and the Rise of Scientific Management |
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| 15 |
Automobility and Mass Production |
"Henry Ford and the Advent of Mass Production" (PDF)# |
| 16 |
Second Reading Quiz |
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| 17 |
Mass Production |
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| 18 |
Hobbyist Worlds and Technological Enthusiasm in Modern America
Guest Speaker: Kieran Downes (MIT) |
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| 19 |
Aeronautics and the Systems Approach
Guest Speaker: Dr. Deborah Douglas (MIT Museum) |
Guest lecture by Dr. Deborah Douglas, MIT Museum. (PDF) (Courtesy of Dr. Deborah Douglas. Used with permission.) |
| 20 |
Technology and Art at the Apex of the Machine Age |
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| 21 |
World War II: A Technological Turning Point?
Guest Speaker: Dr. Brendan Foley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute) |
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| 22 |
World War II: A Technological Turning Point? (cont.) |
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| 23 |
A New World: Technology in Cold War America |
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| 24 |
Computers and Control: The Apollo Program
Guest Speaker: Sandy Brown (MIT) |
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| 25 |
Nature's Revenge: Technology and the Environment |
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| 26 |
The Brave New World of Biotechnology
Guest Speaker: Victor McElheny (MIT Knight Fellows Program) |
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