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Bibliography on the History of Mechanical Engineering and Technology.

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[See also: "A Sense of the Past" appendixes a and b]

 

Armytage, W.H.G. A Social History of Engineering. London, Faber, 1970.

ASME International History and Heritage. Landmarks in Mechanical Engineering. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 1997.


Bijker, Wiebe E., Thomas P. Hughes, and Trevor J. Pinch, eds. The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c1987.

Burton Bledstein. The Culture of Professionalism. New York: W.W. Norton, 1976.

Bowen, Harold Gardiner, and Charles F. Kettering. A Short History of Technology. West Orange, N.J.: Thomas Alva Edison Foundation, 1954.

Bruno, Leonard C. The Tradition of Technology: Landmarks Of Western Technology in the Collections of the Library of Congress. Washington: Library of Congress (for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O.), 1995.

Burstall, Aubrey Frederic. A History of Mechanical Engineering. London, Faber and Faber, 1963.

------ Simple Working Models of Historic Machines. Cambridge, M.I.T. Press, 1969, c1968. 


Calder, Ritchie. The Evolution of the Machine. Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, c1968.

Calvert, Monte A. The Mechanical Engineer in America, 1830-1910. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1967.

Cardwell, Donald Stephen Lowell. Technology, Science and History. London: Heinemann Educational, 1972.

Chandler Jr., Alfred D. The Visible Hand. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1977.

Cressy, Edward. A Hundred Years Of Mechanical Engineering. New York: The Macmillan company, 1937.

Cutcliffe, Stephen H., and Robert C. Post, eds. In Context: History and the History of Technology: Essays in Honor of Melvin Kranzberg. Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press; London: Associated University Presses, c1989. 



Day, Lance, and Ian McNeil, eds. Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology. London ; New York: Routledge, 1996.

Daumas, Maurice, ed. History of Technology and Invention. Translated by Eileen B. Hennessy. New York: Crown Publishers, 1969.

De Camp, Lyon Sprague. The Ancient Engineers. London: Souvenir Press, 1963.

Derry, Thomas Kingston and Trevor I. Williams. A Short History of Technology from the Earliest Times to A.D. 1900. London, New York: Oxford University Press, 1970, c1960.



Evans, Chris. Precision Engineering: An Evolutionary View. Bedford, UK: Cranfield Press, c1989. 


Ferguson, Eugene S. Bibliography of the History of Technology. Cambridge, Mass.: Society for the History of Technology, 1968.

------ Engineering and the Mind's Eye. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c1992.

Finch, James Kip. Engineering and Western Civilization. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1951.

Fox, Robert, ed. Technological Change: Methods and Themes in the History of Technology. Australia; United States: Harwood Academic, c1996.


Greaves, W. F., and J. H. Carpenter. A Short History of Mechanical Engineering. Harlow: Longmans, 1969.

Greenhill, Ralph. Engineer's Witness. 1st ed. Toronto: Coach House Press; Boston: Godine, 1985. 


Hart, Ivor Blashka. The Great Engineers. Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1967.

Hasan, Ahmad Yusuf, and Donald R. Hill. Islamic Technology. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press; Paris: Unesco, 1986.

Hill, Donald Routledge. A History of Engineering in Classical and Medieval Times. London: Croom Helm, c1984.

------ Islamic Science and Engineering. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, c1993.

Hindle, Brooke. Technology in Early America: Needs and Opportunities for Study. With a directory of artifact collections, by Lucius F. Ellsworth. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press, 1966.

------ , ed. America's Wooden Age: Aspects of Its Early Technology. Tarrytown, N.Y.: Sleepy Hollow Restorations, 1975.

------ Emulation and Invention. New York: New York University Press, 1981.

------ and Steven Lubar. Engines of Change: The American Industrial Revolution, 1790-1860. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, c1986.

Hounshell, David A. From The American System to Mass Production, 1800-1932: The Development of Manufacturing Technology in the United States. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1984.

Hughes, Thomas Parke, comp. The Development of Western Technology Since 1500. New York: Macmillan, 1964.

------ American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970. New York: Viking, 1989.

Hunter, Louis C. A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780-1930. Charlottesville: Published for the Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation by the University Press of Virginia, 1979-1985. 


Institution of Mechanical Engineers (United Kingdom). Engineering Heritage: Highlights from the History of Mechanical Engineering. London: Heinemann, 1963-1966.

Israel, Paul. From Machine Shop to Industrial Laboratory: Telegraphy and the Changing Context of American Invention, 1830-1920. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1992. 


Jeremy, David J., ed. International Technology Transfer: Europe, Japan, and the USA, 1700-1914. Aldershot, Hants, England; Brookfield, Vt.: E. Elgar Pub. Co., c1991.

------ , ed. The Transfer of International Technology: Europe, Japan, and the USA in the Twentieth Century. Aldershot, Hants, England; Brookfield, Vt., USA: E. Elgar Pub., c1992.

------ , comp. Artisans, Entrepreneurs, and Machines: Essays on Technology Transfer in the Early Anglo-American Textile Industries, 1770-1840s. Aldershot, Hampshire; Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, c1998. 


Kirby, Richard Shelton. Engineering in History. New York: Dover Publications, 1990.

Klemm, Friedrich. Technik. (English) A History of Western Technology. Translated by Dorothea Waley Singer. New York:, Scribner, 1959.

Kranzberg, Melvin, comp. Technology and Culture: An Anthology. Edited by Melvin Kranzberg and William H. Davenport. New York, Schocken Books [1972]

Kranzberg, Melvin, and Carroll W. Pursell, Jr., eds. Technology in Western Civilization. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967.


Layton, Edwin T.The Revolt of the Engineers . Cleveland: The Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1967.

------ comp. Technology and Social Change in America. New York: Harper & Row, 1973.

Landels, John Gray. Engineering in the Ancient World. London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1997, c1978. 


McClellan, James Edward, III, and Harold Dorn. Science and Technology in World History. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press, c1999.

McNeil, Ian, ed. An Encyclopaedia of the History of Technology. London ; New York: Routledge, 1990.

Mayr, Otto. Authority, Liberty, & Automatic Machinery in Early Modern Europe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1986.

Mumford, Lewis. Technics and Civilization. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, c1934. 


Needham, Joseph. Science and Civilisation in China. Cambridge [England]: University Press, 1954.

Noble, David F.  America by Design. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. 


Oliver, John William. History of American Technology. New York: Ronald Press Co., 1956. 


Parsons, William Barclay. Engineers and Engineering in the Renaissance. Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Company, 1939.

Petulla, Joseph M. American Environmental History: The Exploitation and Conservation of Natural Resources. San Francisco: Boyd & Fraser, 1977.

Pursell, Carroll W., Jr., ed. Technology in America: A History of Individuals and Ideas. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c1990.

------ The Machine in America: A Social History of Technology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1995. 


Reynolds, Terry S. Stronger Than a Hundred Men: A History of the Vertical Water Wheel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1983.

------ , ed. The Engineer in America: A Historical Anthology from Technology and Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Rolt, L. T. C. Great Engineers. London: G. Bell, 1962.

------ A Short History of Machine Tools. Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1965.

------ The Mechanicals: Progress of a Profession. London: Heinemann, published on behalf of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1967.

------ Tools for the Job: A History of Machine Tools to 1950. London: H.M.S.O., 1986.

Rothenberg, Marc. The History of Science and Technology in the United States: A Critical and Selective Bibliography. New York: Garland Pub., 1982. 


Selin, Helaine, ed. Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Dordrecht, Boston: Kluwer Academic, 1997.

Sellers, George Escol. Early Engineering Reminiscences, 1815-1840. Edited by Eugene S. Ferguson. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1965.

Sinclair, Bruce. Early Research at the Franklin Institute: the Investigation into the Causes of Steam Boiler Explosions 1830-1837. Philadelphia: Franklin Institute, 1966.

------ A Centennial History of ASME. New York: ASME, 1980.

Singer, Charles Joseph, and others, eds. A History of Technology. Oxford; New York: Oxford Clarendon Press, 1954-1984.

Smith, Merritt Roe, ed. Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology: the Challenge of Change. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1977.

------ , ed. Military Enterprise and Technological Change: Perspectives on the American Experience. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c1985.

------ and Gregory Clancey, eds. Major Problems in the History of American Technology. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, c1998.

Stanley, Autumn. Mothers and Daughters of Invention. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, c1995.

Stine, Jeffrey K., Mixing the Waters: Environment, Politics, and the Building of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. University of Akron Press, 1994

Stine, Jeffrey K., and Michael C. Robinson. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Environmental Issues in the Twentieth Century: A Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: Historical Division, Office of Administrative Services, Office of the Chief of Engineers ; with the support of the Public Works Historical Society, 1984.

Strandh, Sigvard. Machines: an Illustrated History. Adelaide: Rigbu, 1979. 


Tokaty, G. A. A History and Philosophy of Fluidmechanics. Henley-on-Thames: Foulis, 1971.

Turner, Roland, and Steven L. Goulden, eds. Great Engineers and Pioneers in Technology. Volume 1. From Antiquity Through the Industrial Revolution. New York: St. Martin's Press, c1981. 


Usher, Abbott Payson. A History of Mechanical Inventions. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1966. 


Victor, Stephen, and Helena E. Wright, ed. International Conference on the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (5th: 1984: Lowell, Mass. and Boston, Mass.). Industrial Heritage '84: the Fifth International Conference on the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage. Sponsored by the Society for Industrial Archeology and the International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage Washington, DC: The Society for Industrial Archeology, 1984.

Vogel, Robert M., ed. A Report of the Mohawk-Hudson Area Survey: A Selective Recording Survey of the Industrial Archeology of the Mohawk and Hudson River Valleys in the Vicinity of Troy, New York, June-September 1969. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press (for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U. S. Govt. Print. Off.), 1973. 


White, John H., Jr. The American Railroad Passenger Car. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1978.

Williams, Trevor Illtyd. The History of Invention. New York, N.Y.: Facts on File, c1987.

Woodbury, Robert S. History of the Lathe to 1850: A Study in the Growth of a Technical Element of an Industrial Economy. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, c1961, 1964 printing.

Woodcroft, Bennet, ed. The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria, by Hero of Alexandria. Translated from the ancient Greek by Joseph Gouge Greenwood. 1st ed. reprinted. London: Macdonald & Co.; New York: American Elsevier, 1971.


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