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Leonardo to the Internet:

Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present

Thomas J. Misa

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004

Publication

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Amazon.com

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Barnes & Noble
Seminary Coop (Chicago)
Powell's (Portland)

Further Reading

1. TECHNOLOGIES OF THE COURT (1450-1600)
     Renaissance   [Internet Medieval History Sourcebook]
     Reformation  [Internet Modern History Sourcebook]

2. TECHNIQUES OF COMMERCE (1588-1740)
     Early Modern World  [Internet Modern History Sourcebook]

3. GEOGRAPHIES OF INDUSTRY (1740-1851)

4. INSTRUMENTS OF EMPIRE (1840-1914)
     Imperialism  [Internet Modern History Sourcebook]

5. SCIENCE AND SYSTEMS (1870-1930)

6. MATERIALS OF MODERNISM (1900-1950)

7. MEANS OF DESTRUCTION (1936-1990)

8. TOWARD GLOBAL CULTURE (1970-2001)

HISTORY OF COMPUTERS AND COMPUTING
HISTORY OF ENGINEERING
TECHNOLOGY AND MODERNITY

WWW sites (see also Reading Questions)

History Sources on the Web
Chicago History Websites

Leonardo and the Engineers of the Renaissance
The machines, technical devices and constructions of Leonardo da Vinci, Brunelleschi and the Sienese engineers of the Renaissance. [Institute and Museum of History of Science, Florence]

National Gallery's Dutch collection

INDUSTRIAL CULTURE: THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Collection of WWW resources

BBC's "Industrialisation"

"From Steelton to Mandalay"
Documents a notable instance of American railroad hardware in imperial India-Burma.

Library of Congress "American Memory" 
on-line documents of (e.g.) AG Bell, Westinghouse factories, Samuel Morse, Wright Brothers

Thomas Edison papers (Rutgers Univ)
on-line searchable documents; PDFs of Edison's 1,093 patents 

Science Museum-London "Making the Modern World"

 

Images

 

open access
password
needed
Islamic noria (water-raising wheel) in Cordoba, Spain:
HUM
Leonardo and Renaissance Engineering
HUM
Crystal Palace (1851)
HUM
Virtual Manchester 
WWW
HUM
Sheffield-Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet 
HUM
"Steelton to Mandalay" [1902 railroad bridge in Burma] 
HUM
"Railways of India" 
HUM

Reading questions

1. Technologies of the Court_[updated 9.19.04]
2. Techniques of Commerce [updated 10.10.04]
3. Geographies of Industry_[updated 10.28.04]
4. Instruments of Empire _[updated 11.27.04]
5. Science and Systems_[updated 3.26.05]
6. Materials of Modernism_[updated 3.26.05]
7. Means of Destruction  [updated 8.27.05]_
8. Global Culture _[updated 8.27.05]_
9. Question of Technology _[updated 8.27.05]
 



 
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