Browse Items (26 total)

'What the astronomers are doing', Harpers

Tags: 1900s; 1902; 1902-7-1; Astronomy; Astronomy and Astrophysics; Newcomb, Simon; Physics; Research; Technological innovations; United States

'Photographing the nebulae with reflecting telescopes', Harpers

Tags: 1900s; 1903; 1903-5-1; Astronomical photography; Astronomy; Astronomy and Astrophysics; Nebulae; Observations; Physics; Reflecting telescopes; Ritchey, G. W. (George Willis); Technological innovations

'On the trend of chemical invention', Harpers

Tags: 1900s; 1908; 1908-11-1; Chemical industry; Chemistry; Duncan, Robert Kennedy; Patents; Technological innovations; United States

'Prophets and pattern-followers', Harpers

Tags: 1910s; 1919; 1919-7-1; Creative ability in business; Creative ability in technology; Design and Invention; Engineering; Rubber industry and trade; Strategic planning; Technological innovations; Telephone supplies industry; United States; Updegraff, Robert R. (Robert Rawls)

'This coming era of leisure', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1931; 1931-11-1; Allport, Floyd Henry; Amusements; Effect of technological innovations on; Employees; Engineering; Leisure; manufacturing; Production; Social aspects; Technological innovations; United States

'In defense of machines', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1932; 1932-6-1; AI, Automation and Robotics; Automation; Boas, George; Engineering; Machinery; Mechanization; Social aspects; Technological innovations; United States

'In defense of luxury', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1932; 1932-9-1; Critiques and Comments; Haldane, J. B. S. (John Burdon Sanderson); Luxury; Progress; STS; Technological innovations

'Technology smashes the price system', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1933; 1933-1-1; 1933-1945; Economic policy; Engineering; manufacturing; Power resources; Pricing; Production; Scott, Howard; Technological innovations; United States

'This age of plenty', Harpers

Tags: 1918-1945; 1930s; 1934; 1934-3-1; Chase, Stuart; Economic History; Economic policy; Engineering; Industrialization; manufacturing; Production; Production (Economic theory); Social aspects; Technological innovations

'If industry gave science a chance', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1935; 1935-2-1; Bernal, J. D. (John Desmond); Industrial; Institutions and Funding; Research; Science and industry; Science and state; STS; Technological innovations

'Catching up with the inventors', Harpers

Tags: 1930s; 1938; 1938-3-1; Consumer goods; Engineering; Forecasting; Mechanical Engineering; Technological forecasting; Technological innovations; Train, Arthur; United States

'Rubber out of oil', Harpers

Tags: 1940; 1940-9-1; 1940s; Artificial; Chemistry; Manchester, Harland; Research; Rubber; Rubber industry and trade; Synthetics; Technological innovations; United States

'The sources of Germany�s might', Harpers

Tags: 1940s; 1942; 1942-7-1; Engel, Leonard; Engineering; Germany; Industrial mobilization; manufacturing; Production; Technological innovations

'Plastics come of age', Harpers

Tags: 1940s; 1942; 1942-8-1; Chemistry; Leighton, George Ross; Nicholson, Joseph L.; Plastics industry and trade; Synthetics; Technological innovations

'How to be cool at 93�', Harpers

Tags: 1940s; 1942; 1942-9-1; Air conditioning; Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Mills, Clarence Alonzo; Technological innovations; Temperature control

'Good news on synthetic rubber', Harpers

Tags: 1940s; 1942; 1942-12-1; Artificial; Chemistry; Fleming, Harold M. (Harold Manchester); Polybutadiene; Rubber; Rubber industry and trade; Synthetics; Technological innovations; United States

'The ultimate machine', Harpers

Tags: 1950s; 1958; 1958-8-1; Clarke, Arthur Charles; Engineering; Humor; Mechanical Engineering; Ornamental boxes; Technological innovations; United States

'Technology�s minor moments', Harpers

Tags: 1970s; 1978; 1978-6-1; Business failures; Engineering; Florman, Samuel C.; Fluidic devices; Mechanical Engineering; Technological innovations; United States; Wankel engine

'Untested innovations', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1981; 1981-5-1; Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Sisk, John P.; Social aspects; Technological innovations; Technology; United States

'The myth of computer literacy', Harpers

Tags: 1980s; 1984; 1984-8-1; Computer literacy; Engineering; Information Technology; Noble, Douglas; Technological innovations

'The new economics of high technology', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-3-1; Competition; Economic aspects; Engineering; International; Japan; manufacturing; Manufacturing processes; Production; Research and development contracts; Technological innovations; Thurow, Lester C.; United States

'The digital couch', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-5-1; Medicine; PC Therapist III (Computer program); Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; Psychotherapy; Technological innovations; Weintraub, Joseph

'New computers, new thoughts', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-5-1; Computer industry; Engineering; Information Technology; Parallel processing (Electronic computers); Philosophy; Science; Technological innovations

'The closing of the American mine', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1994; 1994-12-1; coal; Coal miners; Coal mines and mining; Earth Sciences; Economic aspects; Economic conditions; Rhodell; Rhodell (WVa.); Technological innovations; West Virginia; Yale, Andy

'This is your father�s Oldsmobile', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1999; 1999-4-1; AutoWatch (Electronic surveillance system); Electrical Engineering; Electronic surveillance; Engineering; Parenting; Technological innovations; Teenage automobile drivers; United States

'A new toy for the war room', Harpers

Tags: 1990s; 1999; 1999-5-1; Engineering; GeoVoter (Computer program); Information Technology; Political campaigns; Technological innovations; United States