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Title: A Social History of American Technology by Ruth Schwartz Cowan ISBN: 0-19-504605-6 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: December, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $31.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: Very Broad
Comment: Very broad overview of American technology starting with the beginning of the United States all the way through fairly current biotechnology. There are a few good stories in here and the second half is by far the best. I really liked the sections on the railroad, the automobile, radio communication, penicillin, and the section on the birth control pill was by far the best. Is it true that doctors and researchers weren't allowed to talk about birth control till past the early 1950's in the United States? Here's an interesting quote...

"In short, by 1880 if by some weird accident all the batteries that generated electricity for telegraph lines had suddenly run out, the economic and social life of the nation would have faltered. Trains would have stopped running; businesses with branch offices would have stopped functioning; newspapers could have not covered distant events; the president could not have communicated with his European ambassadors; the stock market would have to close; family members separated by long distances could have not relayed important news to each other. By the turn of the century, the telegraph system was both literally and figuratively a network, linking together various aspects of national life- making people increasingly dependent on one another."

Y2K, ay?

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