| Description |
x, 482 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 358-460) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: the experience of early American technology --Technology in early America: a view from the 1990s -- The exhilaration of early American technology: an essay -- Lost, hidden, obstructed and repressed: contraceptive and abortive technology in the early Delaware Valley -- "Publick service" versus "Mans Properties": Dock Creek and the origins of urban technology in eighteenth-century Philadelphia --Inconsiderable progress: commercial brewing in Philadelphia before 1840 -- Laying foods by: gender, dietary decisions, and the technology of food preservation in New England households, 1750-1850 -- Roads most traveled: turnpikes in Southeastern Pennsylvania in the early republic -- Custom and consequence: early nineteenth-century origins of the environmental and social costs of mining anthracite -- A patent transformation: woodworking mechanization in Philadelphia, 1830-1856 -- "So much depends upon a red wheelbarrow": agricultural tool ownership in the eighteenth-century Mid-Atlantic -- Books on early American technology, 1966-1991. |
| Subject |
Technology -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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Technology -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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| Added Author |
McGaw, Judith A., 1946-
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| ISBN |
0807844845 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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080782173X (alk. paper) |
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