History of technology and technology in society

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Baker, G. (1996), Le Corbusier: the Creative Search (Van Nostrand Reinhold).

Bamford, J. (1983), The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization (Penguin).

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Brockman, J., Ed. (2000), The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2000 Years (Simon & Schuster).

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Day, P. and R. Catlow, Eds. (1995), Bicycling to Utopia: Essays on Science and Technology From the Royal Institution (Oxford Univ. Press).

de Bono, E., Ed. (1974), Eureka! An Illustrated History of Inventions From the Wheel to the Computer (Holt, Reinhart and Winston).

DeGraaf, L. (2013), Edison and the Rise of Innovation (Sterling Signature).

Diebold, J. (1990), The Innovators: the Discoveries, Inventions, and Breakthroughs of Our Time (Truman Talley / E. P. Dutton).

Eco, U. (2009), The Infinity of Lists (Rizzoli).

Fenster, J. M., The Spirit of Invention: the Story of the Thinkers, Creators, and Dreamers Who Formed Our Nation (Harper Collins).

Foege, A. (2013), The Tinkerers: the Amateurs, DIYers, and Inventors Who Make Amaerica Great (Basic Bookss).

Fortune (the editors of) (1956), The Mighty Force of Research (McGraw-Hill).

Florman, S. C. (1968), Engineering and the Liberal Arts: a Technologist's Guide to History, Literature, Philosophy, Art, and Music (McGraw-Hill).

Florman, S. C. (1976), The Existential Pleasures of Engineering (St. Martin's Press).

Florman, S. C. (1987), The Civilized Engineer (St. Martin's Griffn).

Ford, M. (2015), Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future (Perseus Books).

Frantz, D. (1991), From the Ground Up: the Business of Building in the Age of Money (Henry Holt).

Friedman, D. D. (2008), Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World (Cambridge Univ. Press).

Gibbons, J. H. (1997), This Gifted Age: Sciences and Technology at the Millennium (American Institute of Physics).

Glymour, C. (2010), Galileo in Pittsburgh (Harvard Univ. Press).

Goodman, R. E. (1999), Karl Terzaaghi: The Engineer As Artist (American Society of Civil Engineers).

Gref, L. G. (2010), The Rise and Fall of American Technology (Algora Publishing).

Hanson, D. (1982), The New Alchemists: Silicon Valley and the Microelectronics Revolution (Little, Brown and Company).

Hiltzik, M. (1999), Dealers of Lightning: Xerox Parc and the Dawn of the Computer Age (Harper Collins).

Hiltzik, M. (1999), Dealers of Lightning: Xerox Parc and the Dawn of the Computer Age (Harper Collins).

Hollister, S. C. (1966), Engineer: Ingenious Contriver of the Instruments of Civilization (Macmillan).

Hughes, T. P. (2004), Human-Built World: How to Think About Technology and Culture (Univ. of Chicago).

Johnson, S. (2014), How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World (Particular Books / Penguin Books).

Johnstone, B. (1998), We Were Burning: Japanese Entrepreneurs and the Forging of the Electronic Age (Basic Books).

Jordan, S. (2012), The Enlightenment Vision: Science, Reason, and the Promise of a Better Future (Prometheus Books).

Kemp, A. A. (1994), Women's Work: Degraded and Devalued (Prentice Hall).

Kendall, J. (2013), Americ's Obsessives: the Compulsive Energy That Built a Nation (Grand Central Publishing).

Kennedy, P. (2013), Engineers of Victory: the Problemsolvers Who Turned the Tide Inthe Second World War (Eandom House).

Kornberg, A. (1995), The Golden Helix: Inside Biotech Ventures (University Science Books).

Layton, C., C. Harlow, and C. De Hoghton (1972), Ten Innovations: an International Study on Technological Development and the Use of Qualified Scientists and Engineers in Ten Industries (Crane, Russak & Company / George Allen & Unwin).

Lewis, M. (2000), The New New Thing: a Silicon Valley Story (W. W. Norton).

Lienhard, J. H. (2000), The Engines of Our Ingenuity: an Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture (Oxford Univ. Press).

Lienhard, J. H. (2003), Inventing Modern: Growing Up With X-Rays, Skyscrapers, and Tailfins (Oxford Univ. Press).

Lih, A. (2009), The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia (Hyperion).

Lindsay, D. (1997), Madness in the Making: the Triumphant Rise and Untimely Fall of America's Show Inventors (Kodansha America).

Mayer, M. (1978), The Builders: Houses, People, Neighborhoods, Governments, Money (W.W. Norton).

McCurdy, H. E. (1993), Inside NASA: High Technology and Organizational Change in the U.S. Space Program (Johns Hopkins University Press).

McNeely, IanF. and L. Wolverton (2008), Reinventing Knowledge: From Alexandria to the Internet (. W. Norton).

Mowery, D. C. and N. Rosenberg (1998), Paths of Innovation: Technological Change in 20th Century America (Cambridge Univ. Press).

National Research Council (1987), Directions in Engineering Research: an Assessment of Opportunities and Needs (National Academy Press).

Neem, J. N. (2008), Creating a Nation of Joiners: Democracy and Civil Society in Early National Mnassachusetts (Harvard Univ. Press).

Nonaka, I. and T. Nishiguchi, Eds. (2001), Knowledge Emergence: Social, Technical, and Evolutionary Dimensions of Knowledge Creation (Oxford Univ. Press).

Nye, D. E. (2006), Technology Matters: Questions to Live With (MIT Press).

Petroski, H. (1985), To Engineer is Human: the Role of Failure in Successful Design (St. Martin's Press).

Petroski, H. (1986), Beyond Engineering (New York: St. Martin's Press).

Petroski, H. (1992), The Evolution of Useful Things (Alfred A. Knopf).

Petroski, H. (1994), Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering (Cambridge Univ. Press).

Petroski, H. (1995), Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America (Vintage Books).

Petroski, H. (1996), Invention By Design (Harvard Univ. Press).

Petroski, H. (1997), Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering (Alfed A. Knopf).

Petroski, H. (1999), The Book on the Bookshelf (Alfred A. Knopf).

Petroski, H. (2003), Small Things Considered: Why There is No Perfect Design (Alfred A. Knopf).

Petroski, H. (2006), Success Through Failure: the Paradox of Design (Princeton Univ. Press).

Petroski, H. (2007), The Toothpick: Technology and Culture (Alfred A. Knopf).

Petroski, H. (2010), The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems (Alfred A. Knopf).

Petroski, H. (2012), To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure (Belknap / Harvard).

Petroski, H. (2016), The Road Taken: the History and Future of America's Infrastructure (Bloomsbury).

Pretzer, W. S. (2001), Working at Inventing: Thomas A. Edison & the Menlo Park Experience (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press).

Rhodes, R., Ed. (1999), Visions of Technology: a Century of Vital Debate About Machines, Systems, and the Human World (Simon & Schuster).

Riordan, M. and L. Hoddeson (1997), Crystal Fire: the Birth of the Information Age (W. W. Norton).

Roberts, S. K. (1988), Computing Across America: the Bicycle Odyssey of a High-Tech Nomad (Learned Information Inc.).

Rorabaugh, W. J. (1986), The Craft Apprentice: From Franklin to the Machine Age in America (Oxford Univ. Press).

Rosenberg, N. (1994), Exploring the Black Box: Technology, Economics, and History (Camrbidge Univ. Press).

Rosenbloom, R. S. and W. J. Spencer, Eds. (1996), Engines of Innovation: U.S. Industrial Research at the End of an Era (Harvard Business School Press).

Rosenbloom, R. S. and W. J. Spencer, Eds. (1996), Engines of Innovation: U.S. Industrial Research at the End of an Era (Harvard Business School Press).

Scher, R. (2016), Leveling the Playing Field: the Democratization of Technology (Lyons Press).

Southwick, K. (1999), Silicon Goldrush: the Next Generation of High-Tech Stars Rewrites the Rules of Business (Wiley).

Stern, B. (2012), Inventors at Work: the Minds and Motivation Behind Modern Inventions (Apress).

Stoll, C. (1995), Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway (Doubleday).

Teich, A. H. (1993), Technology and the Future, 6th ed. (St. Martin's Press).

Tenner, E. (2003), Our Own Devices: the Past and Future of Body Technology (Alfred A. Knopf).

Vare, E. A. and G. Ptacek (1987), Mothers of Invention: From the Bra to the Bomb, Forgotten Women and Their Unforgettable Ideas (Quill / William Morrow).

Volti, R. (1992), Society & Technological Change (St. Martins Press).

Wagner, C. S. (2008), The New Invisible College: Science For Development (Brookings Institute Press).

Wallace, W. M. (2006), Techno-Cultural Evolution: Cycles of Creation and Conflict (Potomac Books).

Weinberger, D. (2011), Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room is the Room (Basic Books / Perseus Books Group).

Winner, L. (1986), The Whale and the Reactor: a Search For Limits in an Age of High Technology (Univ. of Chicago Press).

Winston, R. (2010), Bad Ideas: an Arresting History of Our Inventions (Bantam).

Zittrain, J. (2008), The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It (Yale University Press).

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