Publisher SeriesSloan Technology Series

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Beyond Engineering : How Society Shapes Technology by Robert Pool 86 copies, 3 reviews
City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics by Jeff Hecht 45 copies, 1 review
A Commotion in the Blood: Life, Death, and the Immune System by Stephen S. Hall 79 copies
Computer: A History of the Information Machine by Martin Campbell-Kelly 257 copies, 5 reviews
Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age by Michael Riordan 146 copies, 4 reviews
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb by Richard Rhodes 1,173 copies, 13 reviews
The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal by M. Mitchell Waldrop 399 copies, 4 reviews
Dream Reaper: The Story of an Old-Fashioned Inventor in the High-Tech, High-Stakes World of Modern Agriculture by Craig Canine 36 copies, 3 reviews
Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land by Victor K. McElheny 79 copies, 1 review
The Invention That Changed the World: How a Small Group of Radar Pioneers Won the Second World War and Launched a Technological Revolution by Robert Buderi 238 copies, 1 review
Naked To The Bone: Medical Imaging In The Twentieth Century by Bettyann Kevles 66 copies, 3 reviews
The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency by Robert Kanigel 169 copies, 1 review
Silicon Sky: How One Small Start-Up Went Over the Top to Beat the Big Boys Into Satellite Heaven by Gary Dorsey 33 copies, 1 review
Tube: The Invention of Television by David E. Fisher 92 copies, 2 reviews
Turbulent Skies: The History of Commercial Aviation by T. A. Heppenheimer 38 copies, 2 reviews
Visions Of Technology: A Century Of Vital Debate About Machines Systems And The Human World by Richard Rhodes 181 copies, 2 reviews

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Works covering technical and social aspects of important developments in 20th Century science (English, Unclassified)

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