:BIBLNOTE

                       Bibliographic Note

  Listed here are some books that cover all, or a large part
  of, the history of technology, and some that may help you
  grasp the concepts that I introduce.

Williams, Trevor I[lltyd]

  1987 _THE HISTORY OF INVENTION:  From Stone Axes to Silicon
       Chips_.  London: Macdonald & Co (Publishers) Ltd & New
       York: Facts on File Publications.  = HInv

       The best 1-volume history of technology I know of.

       Williams worked with Singer on the Oxford _History of
       Technology_ and edited the last two volumes (on the pres-
       ent century) himself.  After thirty years, he has produced
       a broad survey, with less detail and far more pictures,
       many in color.

       He covers enough areas of technology, enough regions of
       the Earth, and a long enough epoch; he provides maps and
       timelines.

Mokyr, Joel

  1990 _THE LEVER OF RICHES: TECHNOLOGICAL CREATIVITY AND ECONOM-
       IC PROGRESS_.  New York: Oxford University Press.  = LVRR

       Rev _Journal of Social and Biological Structures_ 14:360-
       363 / Hays, David G.

       Closest in outlook to this diskbook.

Basalla, George

  1988 _THE EVOLUTION OF TECHNOLOGY_.  Cambridge and New York:
       Cambridge University Press.  = GBET

       You may notice a duplication of title here.  George Ber-
       nard Shaw wrote, in the preface to his _Summer Lightning_,
       that he would be glad if his were recognized as one of the
       hundred best books with that title.  Basalla's book came
       to my attention only after I had laid my plans, and his
       material and argument are quite different.  His themes are
       diversity throughout the past, necessity as the mother of
       invention, and evolution as "an organic analogy" (p. vii). 
       He denounces necessity, and considers evolution to be a
       matter of change by very small steps.  But  Basalla 
       chooses  his  examples idiosyncratically, including some
       remarkable failures among the successes.  Well worth a
       look.

McNeil, Ian, editor

  1990 _AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY_. London
       and New York: Routledge.  = EHTc

       A thousand pages, $88, not to be taken lightly.  It may
       serve many of the purposes for which one had to turn to
       Singer--and perhaps with fewer of the errors that critics
       pointed to in the Singer History.

Armytage, W. H. G.

  1961 _A SOCIAL HISTORY OF ENGINEERING_.  MIT Press, Cambridge,
       MA & London: Faber.  = SHEg

Derry, T[homas] K[ingston] [1905- ] & Williams, Trevor I.

  1960 _A SHORT HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO
       A.D. 1900_.  London & New York: Oxford University Press. 
       = SHTy

       1970 Paper

       The bias is toward Europe and the Mediterranean.  Facts
       from _Oxford History of Technology_ presented in narrative
       form.  Social, economic, and technological factors are
       stressed.

Pacey, Arnold

  1990 _TECHNOLOGY IN WORLD CIVILIZATION: A THOUSAND-YEAR HISTO-
       RY_.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.  = TWCv

       Global technology from AD 700 to now.

Gille, Bertrand [1920- ], et al., eds.

  1978 _HISTOIRE DES TECHNIQUES: TECHNIQUE ET CIVILISATIONS,
       TECHNIQUE ET SCIENCES_.  Paris: Gallimard.  = HTCS

       1986  _THE HISTORY OF TECHNIQUES_.  Southgate, P. & Wil-
       liamson, T., trans; Keller, A., terminology; Kranakis,
       E.F., bibliography.  New York: Gordon and Breach Science
       Publishers.

       Western technology consists of "systems", consisting in
       turn of "technical structures" (tools or processes),
       "technical ensembles" (combinations of techniques) or
       "concatenations of technical ensembles".  (Oleson 208)

Pacey, Arnold

  1974 _THE MAZE OF INGENUITY: IDEAS AND IDEALISM IN THE DEVELOP-
       MENT OF TECHNOLOGY_.  London: Allen Lane.  = MzII

       1975  New York: Holmes and Meier.
       1976  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Burke, James [1936- ]

  1978 _CONNECTIONS_.  Boston: Little, Brown and Company.

       Broad coverage, with many illustrations; a favorite of
       some readers.  A quick scan revealed to me no sensible
       order of presentation.

Clark, Ronald W[illiam]

  1985 _WORKS OF MAN: A HISTORY OF INVENTION AND ENGINEERING FROM
       THE PYRAMIDS TO THE SPACE SHUTTLE_.  New York: Viking.  =
       WkMn

       The dust jacket overlays a shuttle on a pyramid.  A heavi-
       ly illustrated, popular book--a coffee-table book.


  _A HISTORY OF THE MACHINE_

  1979 Designed and produced by AB Nordbok,  Gothenburg, Sweden;
       Sigvard Strandh, writer; Ann Henning, trans.  New York:
       A&W Publishers, Inc., New York.  = HyMc

       Many good drawings, some of them reconstructions of ma-
       chines  that had been imagined but never built nor even
       drawn.  A coffee-table book with flair.

Singer, Charles Joseph [1876-1960], Holmyard, E. J. Hall, M. R. &
Williams, Trevor I., eds

  1954 A HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY.  Oxford [Eng.] & New York: Cla-
       rendon Press.  5 volumes.  = HsTc

       The major history of technology in English; to 1899.

       1954    Vol 1, _FROM EARLY TIMES TO FALL OF ANCIENT EM-
               PIRES C. 500 B.C._

       1957    Vol 2, _THE MEDITERRANEAN CIVILIZATIONS AND THE
               MIDDLE AGES, C. 700 B.C TO C. A.D. 1500.

       1957    Vol 3, _FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO THE INDUSTRIAL
               REVOLUTION, C. 1500 - C. 1750.

       1958    Vol 4, _THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION C 1750 TO C
               1850_.

       1958    Vol 5, _THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY, C. 1850 TO C.
               1900_.

Daumas, Maurice / Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers,
Paris

  1962 -79 Editor.  _HISTOIRE GENERALE DES TECHNIQUES_.  5 vols. 
       Presses universitaires de France, Paris.  = HGTc

       1969-78  _THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY AND INVENTION: PROG-
       RESS THROUGH THE AGES_.  Trans. Eileen B. Hennessy.  New
       York: Crown Publishers, Inc.

       1969  Vol 1, _The Origins of Technological Civilization_.

       1969  Vol 2, _The First Stages of Mechanization_.

       1978  Vol 3, _The Expansion of Mechanization, 1725-1860_.

Levinson, Paul

  1988 _MIND AT LARGE:  KNOWING IN THE TECHNOLOGICAL AGE_.  JAI
       Press Inc., Greenwich, CT.  = MatL

       I quote my review in the _Journal of Social and Biological
       Structures_, 14/1:

       "The author [who is president of Connected Education] is
       an optimist, a rationalist, a Kantian, and a McLuhanite
       ... He is also a Popperian fallibilist and an evolutionist
       ... These, roughly speaking, are the positions that he
       argues for in _Mind at Large_.  Now, I hold positions not
       far from these, although I have too strong a sense of the
       possibility of intellectual, cultural, or sociopolitical
       failure to be an optimist (I settle for neutrality), and I
       have been called a neo-Kantian, more psychologist than
       philosopher.  All in all, I have little reason to attack
       any of the positions that Levinson defends, but I can
       disagree with some aspects of his defense.

       "The book does not lend itself to summation in a sentence
       or a paragraph.  Evolved knowing is necessarily fallible,
       and fallible knowing can evolve without limit.  Rationali-
       ty and technology transform the mechanism of evolution. 
       Technology makes visible the working of mind.  These and
       other themes are developed, but it remains for some later
       book to resolve them into one single theme.  I am not
       aware of any extant book that accomplishes that purpose;
       we are not there yet."

Bernal, John Desmond [1901- ]

  1969 _SCIENCE IN HISTORY_.  4 vols.  Penguin.  = ScHy

Bugliarello, George & Doner, Dean B., eds.

  1979 _THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY_.  Symposium on
       the History and Philosophy of Technology, Chicago, 1973.
       Kranzberg, Melvin, intro. `Urbana: University of Illinois
       Press.  = HPhT

Dobzhansky, Theodosius & Boesiger, Ernest

  1983 _HUMAN CULTURE: A MOMENT IN EVOLUTION_.  Edited and com-
       pleted by Bruce Wallace.  New York: Columbia University
       Press.  = HCME

Ferguson, Eugene S.

  1968 _BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY_.  Cambridge,
       MA: MIT Press.  = BHTC


   _NEW BOOK OF WORLD RANKINGS_

  1991 New York: Facts On File.  = NBWR

Toynbee, Arnold J. [1889-1975]

  1920 -1961.  _A STUDY OF HISTORY_.  12 vols.  Oxford  Universi-
       ty Press.  StHy

       1972  1-vol illus abridgement.  Toynbee and Jane Caplan. 
       New York: Weathervane Books.

       Any reader who does not have at least a thin layer of
       knowledge about the whole range of human history might
       want to have this book at hand.  But there are other
       one-volume world histories.

Stein, Werner

  1946 _KULTURFAHRPLAN_.

       1975  Grun, Bernard,  _THE TIMETABLES OF HISTORY_.  New
       York: Simon & Schuster.  = TtHy

Asimov, Isaac [1920- ]

  1989 _ASIMOV'S CHRONOLOGY  OF SCIENCE AND DISCOVERY_.  New
       York: Harper & Row, Publishers.  = ACSD

       Explaining science to a layman is never an easy task, and
       explaining the significance of a discovery in its own time
       is particularly difficult.  In about 2000 short state-
       ments, Asimov gives the background, states the discovery,
       and often adds a remark on application or importance to
       future workers.  He is terse and almost always clear. "In
       Addition" he mentions social and political events.

Wettereau, Bruce

  1990 _THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK OF CHRONOLOGIES_.  New
       York: Prentice Hall Press.  = NYBC

       About 200 chronological listings.  22 are in the chapter
       on technology; other chapters cover "U.S. Business, Com-
       merce, and Economics" and "Science".


  _THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY: A NARRATIVE CHRONOLOGY_

  1987 New York: Facts on File.  = HTNC


  _THE TIMETABLE OF TECHNOLOGY_

  1982 Prepared by Patrick Harpur and Marshall Editions, Ltd. 
       New York: Hearst Books.  = TtTc

       The twentieth century, year by year.

Gartmann, Heinz [1917- ]

  1959 _SONST STUNDE DIE WELT STILL: Das grosse Ringen um das
       Neue._  Dusseldorf: Econ Verlag GmbH.

       1959  _RINGS AROUND THE WORLD: Man's Progress from Steam
       Engine to Satellite_.  Readett, Alan G., trans.  New York:
       William Morrow & Company.  = RatW

       1959  _SCIENCE AS HISTORY: The Story of Man's Technologi-
       cal Progress from Steam Engine to Satellite_.  Readett,
       Alan G., trans.  London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd.

       A German who is very fond of telling us about the critics
       who said it couldn't be done, and were aghast when it was.