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Motorized Obsessions : Life, Liberty, and the Small-Bore Engine
Paul R. Josephson
Hardcover - $35.95
Biomedical Platforms : Realigning the Normal and the Pathological in Late-Twentieth-Century Medicine
Peter Keating
Paperback - $59.95
Since the end of World War II, biology and medicine have merged in remarkably productive ways. In this book Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio analyze the transformation of medicine into biomedicine and its consequences, ranging from the recasting o ...
The Carriage Trade : Making Horse-Drawn Vehicles in America
Thomas A. Kinney
Hardcover - $111.95
In 1926, the Carriage Builders' National Association met for the last time, signaling the automobile's final triumph over the horse-drawn carriage. Only a decade earlier, carriages and wagons were still a common sight on every Main Street in America. ...
The Power Makers : Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America
Maury Klein
Hardcover - $47.95
Global Power Knowledge : Science and Technology in International Affairs
John Krige
Paperback - $71.95
"Osiris" annualy examines a particular topic in the history of science, bringing together experts in the field to consider multiple aspects of the time period, episode, or theme. Volume 21, "Historical Perspectives on Science, Technology, and Interna ...
Inventing the Cotton Gin : Machine and Myth in Antebellum America
Angela Lakwete
Paperback - $54.95
"The cotton gin animates the American imagination in unique ways. It evokes no images of antique machinery or fluffy fiber but rather scenes of victimized slaves and battlefield dead. It provokes the suspicion that had Eli Whitney never invented the ...
Leonardo on Flight
Domenico Laurenza
Paperback - $47.95
This beautifully illustrated volume reconstructs the origin of one of the most fascinating and fundamental aspects of Leonardo da Vincis life and work: his dream of human flight. With masterfully reproduced drawings from his vast library of manuscrip ...
Chainsaws : A History
David Lee
Hardcover - $69.95
"It rips, and cuts, it makes a horrible racket--a chainsaw is a frightening thing. I write not to glorify its terrible power but to acknowledge its place in the most sweeping revolution that technology has wrought in the 20th century--the revolution ...
Picturing Machines 1400-1700
Wolfgang Lefevre
Hardcover - $80.95
Technical drawings by the architects and engineers of the Renaissance made use of a range of new methods of graphic representation. These drawings -- among them Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawings of mechanical devices -- have long been studied for t ...