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Aczel, Amir D. The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention That Changed the World. New York: Harcourt, 2001.

Adams, Robert McC. Paths of Fire: An Anthropologist's Inquiry into Western Technology. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1996.

Aspray, William; and Paul E. Ceruzzi, eds. The Internet and American Business. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2008.

Auyang, Sunny Y. Engineering: An Endless Frontier. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2004.

Aveni, Anthony. Empires of Time: Calendars, Clocks, and Cultures. New York: Basic Books, 1989.

Baldwin, Neil. Edison: Inventing the Century. New York: Hyperion, 1995.

Berlin, Leslie. The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Berners-Lee, Tim. Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web. New York: Harper Collins, 1999.

Bijker, Wiebe E. Of Bicycles, Bakelites and Bulbs: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1995.

Braun, Ernest and Stuart Macdonald. Revolution in Miniature: The History and Impact of Semiconductor Electronics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1978.

Brooks, John. Telephone: The First Hundred Years. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.

Brown, Dave E. Inventing Modern America: From the Microwave to the Mouse. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2002.

Bulliet, Richard W. The Camel and the Wheel. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1975.

Burke, James. Connections. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1978.

Burke, James. The Pinball Effect: How Renaissance Gardens Made the Carburetor Possible -- and Other Journeys through Knowledge. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996.

Campbell-Kelly, Martin and William Aspray. Computer: A History of the Information Machine. New York: Basic Books, 1996.

Cardwell, D. S. L. Turning Points in Western Technology: A Study of Technology, Science and History. New York: Neale Watson Academic Publications, 1974.

Ceruzzi, Paul E. A History of Modern Computing. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1998.

Ceruzzi, Paul E. Internet Alley: High Technology in Tyson’s Corner, 1945-2005. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2008.

Chandler, Alfred A., Jr. and James W. Cortada. A Nation Transformed: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Cipolla, Carlo M. and Derek Birdsall.The Technology of Man: A Visual History. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979.

Clark, Ronald W. Edison: The Man Who Made the Future. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1977.

Collins, Martin. After Sputnik: 50 Years of the Space Age. New York: Harper Collins, 2007.

Constable, George and Bob Somerville. A Century of Innovation: Twenty Engineering Achievements That Transformed Our Lives. Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press, 2003.

Delmonte, John. Origins of Materials and Processes. Lancaster: Technomic Publishing Company, 1985.

Dickson, Paul. Sputnik: The Launch of the Space Race. Toronto: Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 2001.

Diebold, John. The Innovators: The Discoveries, Inventions, and Breakthroughs of Our Time. New York: Truman Talley Books, 1990.

Faith, Nicholas. The World the Railways Made. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1990.

Ferguson, Charles H. High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars. New York: Random House, 1999.

Fischer, Claude S. America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

Fisher, David E. and Marshall Jon Fisher. Tube: The Invention of Television. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1996.

Friedel, Robert. A Culture of Improvement: Technology and the Western Millennium. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2007.

Gartmann, Heinz. Science As History: The Story of Man's Technological Progress from Steam Engine to Satellite. London: Hodder & Stoughton,  1960.

Gies, France and Joseph. Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel: Technology and Innovation in the Middle Ages. New York: Harper Collins, 1994.

Gilder, George. Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology. New York: Simon and Schuster,  1989.

Gitelman, Lisa. Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture . Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2006.

Goldstine, Herman H. The Computer: From Pascal to von Neumann. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1972.

Hafner, Katie and Matthew Lyon. Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

Hanson, Dirk. The New Alchemists: Silicon Valley and the Microelectronics Revolution. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1982.

Heyn, Ernest V. Fire of Genius: Inventors of the Past Century. New York: Anchor Books/Doubleday,  1976.

Hiltzik, Michael. Dealers of Lightning: XEROX PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age. New York: Harper Business, 1999.

Hudson, David. Rewired: A Brief and Opinionated Net History. Indianapolis, Indiana: Macmillan Technical Publishing, 1997.

Hughes, Thomas P. American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm 1870-1970. New York: Viking, 1989.

Hughes, Thomas P. Human-Built World: How to Think About Technology and Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Hughes, Thomas P. Rescuing Prometheus. New York: Pantheon Books, 1998.

Husbands, Philip; Owen Holland; Michael Wheeler. The Mechanical Mind in History. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2008.

Ierley, Merritt. Wondrous Contrivances: Technology at the Threshold. New York: Clarkson Potter, 2002.

Irfah, Georges. The Universal History of Computing: From the Abacus to the Quantum Computer. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2001.

Jackson, Tim. Inside Intel: Andy Grove and the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Chip Company. New York: Dutton, 1997.

James, Peter and Nick Thorpe. Ancient Inventions. New York: Ballantine Books, 1994.

Johnstone, Bob. We Were Burning. Japanese Entrepreneurs and the Forging of the Electronic Age. New York: Basic Books, 1999.

Jonnes, Jill. Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World. New York: Randon House, 2003.

Landes, David S. Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1983.

Lécuyer, Christophe. Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2006.
Lewis, E. E. Masterworks of Technology: The Story of Creative Engineering, Architecture, and Design. New York: Prometheus Books, 2004.

Lewis, Michael. The New New Thing. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000.

Lienhard, John. The Engines of Our Ingenuity: An Engineer Looks at Technology and the Future. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Lienhard, John. How Invention Begins: Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of New Machines. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Man, John. The Gutenberg Revolution: The Story of a Genius and an Invention that Changed the World. London: Headline Book Publishing, 2002.

Marvin, Carolyn. When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Mokyr, Joel. The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Mumford, Lewis. The Myth of the Machine: Technics and Human Development. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967.

Naughton, John. A Brief History of the Future: From Radio Days to Internet Years in a Lifetime. Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press, 2000.

North, John. God's Clockmaker: Richard of Wallingford and the Invention of Time. London: Hambledon and London, 2005.

Nye, David E. Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1990.

Pacey, Arnold. Technology in World Civilization: A Thousand-Year History. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1990.

Petroski, Henry. Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

Pfeiffer, John. The Thinking Machine. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1962.
Pursell, Carroll. The Machine in America: A Social History of Technology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
Reid, Robert H. Architects of the Web: 1,000 Days that Built the
Future of Business.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997.
Riordan, Michael and Lillian Hoddeson. Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.
Schiffer, Michael Brian. Power Struggles: Scientific Authority and the Creation of Practical Electricity before Edison. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2008.
Shagena, Jack L. Who Really Invented the Steamboat? Fulton's Clermont Coup. New York: Humanity Books, 2004.
Simon, Linda. Dark Light: Electricity and Anxiety from the Telegraph to the X-Ray. Orlando: Harcourt, 2005.

Singleton, Loy A. Global Impact: The New Telecommunication Technologies. New York: Harper and Row, 1989.

Smith, George David. The Anatomy of a Business Strategy: Bell, Western Electric and the Origins of the American Telephone Industry. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.

Soulard, Robert. A History of the Machine. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1968.
Swade, Doron. The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer. New York: Viking, 2000.
Teitelman, Robert. Profits of Science: The American Marriage of Business and Technology. New York: Basic Books, 1994.
Waldrop, M. Mitchell. The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal. New York: Viking, 2001.
Watson, Fred. Stargazer: The Life and Times of the Telescope. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press, 2005.
White, Lynn, Jr. Medieval Technology and Social Change. London: Oxford University Press, 1962.
Zimmerman, Robert. Leaving Earth: Space Stations, Rival Superpowers, and the Quest for Interplanetary Travel. Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press, 2003.
Zygmont, Jeffrey. Microchip: An Idea, Its Genesis, and the Revolution It Created. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Perseus Publishing, 2003.
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