Technology in Early America (Needs and Opportunities for Study)

xix, 145 pp. With a Directory of Artifact Collections by Lucius F. Ellsworth. This interpretative essay and extensive bibliography surveying the chronology and major characteristics of American technology before 1850 is the first available guide in this period to the rapidly developing field of the history of technology. CONTENTS: The Institute Conferences; Foreword; Acknowledgments; The Exhilaration of Early American Technology: An Essay; A Bibliography of Early American Technology - Introduction; Guides and Sources; Surveys and Studies; A Directory of Artifact Collections - Introduction; Raw Materials Production; Manufacturing; Tools and Instruments; Power; Transportation; Communication; Index