Early American Technology : : Making and Doing Things From the Colonial era to 1850
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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 travelled: 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.
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PUBLISHED
Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, c1994.
Year Published: 1994
Description: x, 482 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0807844845 :
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
McGaw, Judith A., 1946-
SUBJECTS
Technology -- History -- 18th century.
Technology -- History -- 19th century.