SeriesSloan Technology Series

16 Works Popularity 4,122 (2,309 Members) 2,967 Books 44 Reviews ½ 3.9
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Beyond Engineering : How Society Shapes Technology by Robert Pool 82 copies, 3 reviews
City of Light: The Story of Fiber Optics by Jeff Hecht 41 copies, 1 review
A Commotion in the Blood: Life, Death, and the Immune System by Stephen S. Hall 75 copies
Computer: A History of the Information Machine by Martin Campbell-Kelly 240 copies, 5 reviews
Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age by Michael Riordan 138 copies, 3 reviews
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb by Richard Rhodes 1,114 copies, 13 reviews
The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal by M. Mitchell Waldrop 367 copies, 3 reviews
Dream Reaper: The Story of an Old-Fashioned Inventor in the High-Tech, High-Stakes World of Modern Agriculture by Craig Canine 35 copies, 3 reviews
Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land by Victor K. McElheny 78 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 229 copies, 1 review
Naked To The Bone: Medical Imaging In The Twentieth Century by Bettyann Kevles 64 copies, 3 reviews
The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency by Robert Kanigel 162 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 90 copies, 2 reviews
Turbulent Skies: The History of Commercial Aviation by T. A. Heppenheimer 35 copies, 2 reviews
Visions Of Technology: A Century Of Vital Debate About Machines Systems And The Human World by Richard Rhodes 179 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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