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Front Cover: Cover: Heaton Brothers’ steam drag, 1833 (from Mechanics Magazine, vol. 19 [London. 1833]). See figure 7 of Francis T. Evans, “Roads, Railways, and Canals: Technical Choices in 19th-Century Britain,” pp. 1-34.
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Volume 22, Number 1, January 1981Table of Contents

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View Summary of The Origin of Agriculture and Technology: Aarhus, Denmark, November 21–25, 1978. I. Introductory Note: Whence Early Technology? East, West, or Nowhere?
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View Summary of Interface ’79—Humanities and Technology: Southern Technical Institute, Marietta, Georgia, October 25–26, 1979
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View Summary of The Plan of St. Gall: A Study of the Architecture and Economy of, and Life in a Paradigmatic Carolingian Monastery by Walter Horn, Ernest Born (review)
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View Summary of Materials Science and Engineering: Its Evolution, Practice and Prospects ed. by Morris Cohen (review)
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View Summary of Tools and Technologies: Americas Wooden Age ed. by Paul B. Kebabian, William C. Lipke (review)
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View Summary of A Russian Looks at America: The Journey of Aleksandr Borisovich Lakier in 1857 ed. by Arnold Schrier, Joyce Story (review)
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View Summary of Authentication in the Visual Arts: A Multi-disciplinary Symposium ed. by H. L. C. Jaffe, et al (review)
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View Summary of Seven Decades That Changed America: A History of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, 1907–1977 by Robert E. Stewart (review)
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View Summary of Cities of the American West: A History of Frontier Urban Planning by John W. Reps (review)
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View Summary of Moving the Masses: Urban Public Transit in New York, Boston and Philadelphia, 1880–1912 by Charles W. Cheape (review)
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View Summary of The Port of New York: A History of the Rail and Terminal System from the Beginnings to Pennsylvania Station by Carl W. Condit (review)
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View Summary of A City for the Nation: The Army Engineers and the Building of Washington, D.C., 1790–1967 by Albert E. Cowdrey (review)
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View Summary of Power on Land and Sea—160 Years of Industrial Enterprise on Tyneside—a History of R. and W. Hawthorn Leslie by J. F. Clarke (review)
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View Summary of Elektrifieringen av Svenska Jä rnvägar. Motiv för val av system [The electrification of Swedish railways: motives for choice of systems] by Göran Rönn, and: Mekaniska Verkstadsbyggnader under 1800-talet [Mechanical workshops in Sweden during the 19th century] by Bo Salholm (review)
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View Summary of Air Power and Warfare: The Proceedings of the Eighth Military History Symposium, 18–20 October 1978 ed. by Alfred F. Hurley, Robert C. Ehrhart (review)
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View Summary of Pionery raketnoy tekhniki: Gansvindt, Goddard, Esno-P el’tri, Obert, Goman—Izbranniye trudiy (1891–1938) [Pioneers of rocket technology: Ganswindt, Goddard, Esnault-Pelterie, Oberth, and Hohmann—selected works (1891-1938)] ed. by T. M. Mell’kumov, V. N. Sokol’skiy (review)
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View Summary of Toward the Endless Frontier: History of the Committee, on Science and Technology, 1959–79 by Ken Hechler (review)
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View Summary of Physics at the National Research Council of Canada, 1929–1952 by W. E. K. Middleton (review)
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View Summary of Energy Future: Report of the Energy Project at the Harvard Business School ed. by Robert Stobaugh, Daniel Yergin, and: The Last Chance Energy Book by Owen Phillips (review)
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View Summary of In Defense of the Irrational Peasant: Indian Agriculture after the Green Revolution by Kusum Nair (review)
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View Summary of A Bibliography on Historical Organization Practices. Vol. 4: Documentation of Collections by Rosemary S. Reese (review)
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View Summary of Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology by Audrey Davis, Toby Appel (review)
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