This is a list of books that materially assisted my understanding of the role of technology in history and vice, of course, versa. The silly editor on Open Salon won't hold the column formatting so, despite my having laboriously inserted spaces, it looks all jumbled. While I do apologize for that, I make no apology for the fact that two of these came from magazine articles and three from television documentaries, nor for excluding the work of that drearily command-and-control historian, Stephen Ambrose.

Title, Author, Date, ISBN

Education of Henry Adams, Henry Adams, 1907 & 2006, 1406504599

Mechanization Takes Command, Siegfried Giedion, 1948 & 1975, 0262630184

Men, Machines & Modern Times, Elting E. Morison, 1968, 0393004899

Of a Fire on the Moon, Norman Mailer, 1969 & 1985, 0394620194

Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That Failed, Henry S. F. Cooper, 1972 & 1995 0801850975

Roots of Civilization, Alexander Marshack, 1972 & 1991, 559210419

Ascent of Man, Jacob Bronowski, 1976, 0316109339

The Wizard War, R.V. Jones, 1978, 0698108965

Connections, James Burke, 1978 & 2007, 0743299558

Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder, 1981 & 2000, 0316491977

To Engineer is Human, Henry Petroski, 1982 & 1992, 0679734163

Out of the Fiery Furnace: The Impact of Metals on the History of Mankind, Robert Raymond, 1986 & 2000, 027100441X

Nature’s Metropolis, William Cronon, 1992, 0393308731

Victorian Internet, Tom Standage, 1998, 0425171698

Empire Express, David Hayward Bain, 1999, 0140084991