The volume emphasises the need both to establish a common forum for theoretical and empirical research and also to delineate the shared concerns of these two treatments, which are too often reflected as conflicting rather than mutually ...
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
In this volume, scholars from these two very different traditions are brought together. Never before has a single volume contained such a distinguished and diverse group of historians of technology.
"This volume not only considers the implementation--the successes and failures--of new media technologies, but also the influence these technologies have had both on the practical demands and internal processes of media companies and on the ...
This book presents a unique account of how technological change is generated and introduced into economic activity.
Technology and American Society remains the ideal introduction to the myriad interactions of technological advancement with social, economic, cultural, and military change throughout the course of American history.
Friedrich Gottlob Koenig (1774–1833), with Andreas Friedrich Bauer (1783–1860), actually built a high- speed steam- powered printing press in 1819. It could print up to 1100 sheets per hour, printing on both sides of the paper at the ...
In a single volume, this book combines the history of invention and the interactions of technology with social, economic, cultural, and military change throughout the course of...
Celebrates the creativity of humanity by examining the history of technology as a strategy to solve real-world problems.
The next key development came in 1957, when economists Alfred Conrad and John Meyer published two articles that brought together economic theory and statistics, ushering in a “new economic history,” sometimes also called “econometrics” ...