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General Works. Eugene S. Ferguson, Bibliography of the
History of Technology (Cambridge, Mass., 1968). Friedrich
Klemm, Technik: eine Geschichte ihrer Probleme (Munich,
1954), trans. Mrs. D. W. Singer as A History of Western
Technology (London and New York, 1959). Joseph Needham,
Science and Civilisation in China (Cambridge, 1954-).
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A History of Technology, 5 vols. (Oxford and New
York, 1954-58). A. P. Usher,
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Works Relating Technology to Science and Other Social
Activities. A. C. Crombie, Augustine to Galileo: the History
of Science. A.D. 400-1650 (London, 1952); reprinted as Me-
dieval and Early Modern Science, 2 vols. (London and New
York, 1959). R. J. Forbes and E. J. Dijksterhuis, A History
of Science and Technology, 2 vols. (London, 1963). Lewis
Mumford, Technics and Civilization (New York, 1934;
reprint 1963). Lynn White, Jr., Medieval Technology and
Social Change (Oxford and New York, 1962).
Works Having Relevance for the History of Technology.
J. B. Bury, The Idea of Progress. An Inquiry into its Origin
and Growth (London, 1920; various reprints). A. R. Hall,
The Scientific Revolution, 2nd ed. (London, 1962; reprint
1957). Robert Lenoble, “La pensée scientifique,” in Maurice
Daumas, ed., Histoire de la science (Paris, 1963). W. Warren
Wagar, “Modern Views of the Origins of the Idea of
Progress,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 28 (1967), 55-70.
A. N. Whitehead, Science and the Modern World (London
and New York, 1925; reprint 1957).
Works Dealing with Individuals, Topics, or Periods.
D. S. L. Cardwell, Watt to Kelvin and Clausius. The Rise of
Thermodynamics and the Early Industrial Age (London,
1970). Sadi Carnot, Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du
feu (Paris, 1824; facsimile ed. 1953), trans. R. H. Thurston,
republished with introduction by E. Mendoza as Reflections
on the Motive Power of Fire (reprint, 1960). Carlo Cipolla,
Clocks and Culture, 1300-1700 (London, 1967). See also the
various papers by Derek J. de Solla Price and by Silvio A.
Bedini in Technology and Culture, and elsewhere. John
Diebold, Automation: the Advent of the Automatic Factory
(New York, 1952). Galileo Galilei, De motu and Le
meccaniche, trans. I. E. Drabkin and Stillman Drake as On
Motion and On Mechanics (Madison, 1960), with useful
introductions and notes by the translators; idem, Discorsi
... intorno a due Nuove Scienze (1638), trans. H. Crew and
A. de Salvio as Dialogues... Concerning Two New Sciences
(New York, 1914; also reprint). Norman T. Gridgeman,
article on Charles Babbage, Dictionary of Scientific Biogra-
phy (New York, 1970-), I, 354-56. H. J. Habbakuk, American
and British Technology in the Nineteenth Century (Cam-
bridge, 1962). R. L. Hills, Power in the Industrial Revolution
(Manchester, 1970). Thomas P. Hughes, ed., Selections from
the Lives of the Engineers... by Samuel Smiles (Cambridge,
Mass., 1966). John Jewkes, David Sawers, and Richard
Stillerman, The Sources of Invention (London, 1958). A. G.
Keller, A Theatre of Machines (London, 1964). Leonardo
Olschki, Geschichte der neusprechlichen wissenschaftlichen
Literatur, 3 vols. (Leipzig and Halle, 1919-27). L. T. C. Rolt,
A Short History of Machine Tools (Cambridge, Mass., 1965).
Andrew Ure, The Philosophy of Manufactures (London,
1835; reprint 1967). Edgar Zilzel, “Concept of Scientific
Progress,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 6 (1946), 325-49.
The main journals for the history of technology are:
Technology and Culture, and Transactions of the Newcomen
Society. Articles dealing with the impact of technology on
culture frequently appear in such journals as Archives Inter-
nationales d'Histoire des Sciences, Isis, Annals of Science,
and Journal of the History of Ideas.
D. S. L. CARDWELL
[See also Alchemy;
Baconianism; Newton on Method;
Progress; Work.]
