Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The History and Influence of Technology and Science on American Culture
Chapter One: The Steam Engine
Chapter Two: The Automobile (The Internal Combustion Engine)
Chapter Three: The McCormick Reaper and the Agricultural Revolution
Chapter Four: The Sewing Machine, the Textile Industry, and the Role of Women
Chapter Five: The American Gun Culture
Chapter Six: The Telegraph and the Telephone
Chapter Seven: Radio and Television
Chapter Eight: The Motion Picture
Chapter Nine: The Airplane
Chapter Ten: The Computer, the Internet, and the World Wide Web
Epilogue: Technology and Social Change
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Gerhard Falk is the author of twenty-one books and over forty journal articles. He has received the State University Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, the State University College at Buffalo President’s Award for Creativity, and the State University of New York Research Foundation Award for Scholarship. He has also been inducted into Delta Tau Kappa, the International Social Science Honor Society.