Technology and Culture

Book Notes Revolution in Time: Clocks and theMaking oftheModern World. By David S. Landes. Paperback ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985. Pp. xviii + 482; illustrations, notes, appen­ dixes, index. $8.95. (Original ed. reviewed in Technology and Culture 26 [July 1985]: 631.) The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: An Abridgement ofJoseph Needham’s Original Text. By Colin A. Ronan. Vol. 2, paperback ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xii + 459; illus­ trations, tables, bibliography, index. $19.95. Abridgment of Need­ ham’s vol. 3 and vol. 4, pt. 1. (Original ed. reviewed in Technology and Culture 24 [July 1983]: 547.) Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science. By Alberto Perez-Gomez. Paperback ed. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985. Pp. x + 400; illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $10.95. (Original ed. re­ viewed in Technology and Culture 25 [October 1984]: 900.) The Culture ofTime and Space 1880-1918. By Stephen Kern. Paperback ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986. Pp. 372; illustrations, notes, index. $8.95. (Original ed. reviewed in Technology and Culture 26 [October 1985]: 882.) Before Mickey: The Animated Film 1898—1928. By Donald Crafton. Paperback ed. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1984. Pp. xx + 413; illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $9.95. (Original ed. re­ viewed in Technology and Culture 25 [January 1984]: 123.) Benjamin Martin—Author, Instrument-Maker and “Country Showman”: Supplement. By John R. Millburn. London: Vade-Mecum Press (The Bookshop, 31/35 Great Ormond Street, London WC1N 3HZ, En­ gland), 1986. Pp. 63; illustrations, index. Paper. £5.95 + 55/) (95/) overseas) handling; $9.95+ $1.55 handling. New information on Martin’s activities, from research into 18th-century newspapers. Original book published in 1976 (reviewed in Technology and Culture 19 [January 1978]: 114) and still available from Vade-Mecum for£22.95 + £1.75 (£2.25 overseas) handling (if U.S. check, add $5.00 for bank charges). 912 TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Notes 913 Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Essays of the Lawrence Elenry Gipson InstituteforEighteenth Century Studies. Edited by Stephen H. Cutcliffe. Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University (Bursar’s Office, Alumni Memorial Building no. 27, 18015), 1984. Pp. xi + 69; notes. $4.95 (paper). “The Chemical Revolution Revisited,” by Arthur Donovan; “William Weston, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, and the Phil­ adelphia Plan for Internal Improvements,” by Darwin H. Stapleton; “Death and Taxes: The Domain of Numbers in Eighteenth Century Popular Culture,” by Patricia C. Cohen. The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of EighteenthCentury England. By Neil McKendrick, John Brewer, and J. H. Plumb. Paperbacked. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985. Pp. viii 4- 345; notes, index. $12.95. (Original ed. reviewed in Technol­ ogy and Culture 25 [April 1984]: 337.) More Workfor Mother: The Ironies ofHousehold Technologyfrom the Open Hearth to the Microwave. By Ruth Schwartz Cowan. Paperback ed. New York: Basic Books, 1985. Pp. xiv + 257; illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $7.95. (Original ed. reviewed in Technology and Culture 26 [April 1985]: 291.) Technological Innovation and the Decorative Arts. Edited by Ian M. G. Quimby and Polly Anne Earl. Second printing. Charlottesville: Uni­ versity Press of Virginia for Winterthur Museum, 1984. Pp. xiv + 373; illustrations, notes. $14.95 (paper). Essays from the 1973 Winterthur Conference on the relationship between 18th- and 19thcentury technological innovation and the development of home furnishings. Includes papers by Cyril Stanley Smith, Eric Robinson, Merritt Roe Smith, Theodore Penn, Florence Montgomery, George Basalla. The Road to Colossus: A Celebration of American Ingenuity. By Thomas Kiernan. New York: William Morrow, 1985. Pp. 332; index. $16.95. Compact history of American technology and industrial develop­ ment. America’s Wooden Age: Aspects ofIts Early Technology. Edited by Brooke Hindle. Paperback ed. Tarrytown, N. Y.: Sleepy Hollow Press (150 White Plains Road 10591), 1985. Pp. vii + 218; illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $ 14.95 4- $ 1.50 handling. (Original ed. reviewed in Technology and Culture 17 [October 1976]: 748.) Planers, Matchers, and Molders in America 1800 to 1985. By Chandler W. Jones. Seattle, Wash.: Chandler W. Jones (2716 West Hayes Street 98199), 1984. Pp. 147; illustrations, references. $12.00 (paper). A 914 Book Notes TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE history and current status report on the woodworking, furniture, and...