HIST4235 - Industrial Revolution
Engineer/designer I.K. Brunel
Dr. Brian Regal
Professor for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Department of History, LHAC 212
email: bregal@kean.edu
Course Description:
A social and intellectual history of machines, their inventors, and the industrial revolutions which have transformed world societies with increasing power since the end of the Middle Ages. Extensive investigations of conditions for technological innovations such as war and commerce will be made.
Course Objectives:
Students will gain a familiarity with the history of technology in general and the 19th century Western Industrial Revolution in particular. They will learn to apply various methodologies of historical research to the study of the history of machines. Students will show their expertise through a series of examinations and written research projects on the topic.
• Syllabus (NOTE: the syllabus is subject to change over the course of the semester).
• Chinese clock technology article
• Brunel and British Engineering
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On-Line resources:
Madrid Codex (1493), Da Vinci notebook of technical drawings, fascinating
http://leonardo.bne.es/index.html
Radio and television history resource:
The David Sarnoff Library http://www.davidsarnoff.org/
All things Thomas Edison:
The Edison Papers http://edison.rutgers.edu/
Source for historical scientific instruments:
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford University