(updated February 2022)
 

Leonardo to the Internet:

Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present

Thomas J. Misa

Johns Hopkins University Press
3rd edition 2022

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Further Reading

1. TECHNOLOGIES OF THE COURT (1450-1600)
     link: Renaissance   [Internet Medieval History Sourcebook]
     link: Reformation  [Internet Modern History Sourcebook]

2. TECHNIQUES OF COMMERCE (1588-1740)
     link: Early Modern World  [Internet Modern History Sourcebook]

3. GEOGRAPHIES OF INDUSTRY (1740-1851)
   Industrial Revolution  [Internet Modern History Sourcebook]

4. INSTRUMENTS OF EMPIRE (1840-1914)
     Imperialism  [Internet Modern History Sourcebook]

5. SCIENCE AND SYSTEMS (1870-1930)

6. MATERIALS OF MODERNISM (1900-1950)

7. MEANS OF DESTRUCTION (1936-1990)

8. PROMISES OF GLOBAL CULTURE (1970-2001)

HISTORY OF COMPUTING
HISTORY OF ENGINEERING

9. PATHS TO INSECURITY (2001-2010)

10. DOMINANCE OF THE DIGITAL (1990-2016)

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WWW sites (see also Reading Questions)

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                            logo Leonardo and the Engineers of the Renaissance

The machines, technical devices and constructions of Leonardo da Vinci, Brunelleschi and the Sienese engineers of the Renaissance. [Institute and Museum of History of Science, Florence]

Leonardo da Vinci: Codex Madrid

The Codex Madrid, lost for 250 years and found in 1965, is here presented with commentary: Italian, German, English texts plus fabulous images decoded and clarified. [RWTH Aachen (2013)]

National Gallery's Dutch artists

BBC's "Industrialisation" see Paul Atterbury "Victorian Technology"; Pat Hudson "Workshop of the World"; Bruce Robinson "All Change in the Victorian Age"

Compare Mount Holyoke College "Images of the Industrial Era" with
Economic History Society "The Industrial Revolution: Britain, 1750-1830"

"From Steelton to Mandalay"
Documents a notable instance of American railroad hardware in imperial India-Burma.

Library of Congress "American Memory
On-line documents on (e.g.) AG Bell, American environment, 'built in America', Westinghouse factories [1904], pioneer trails, railroad maps, Samuel Morse, Wright Brothers, working in Paterson NJ . . . .

Thomas Edison papers (Rutgers Univ)
on-line searchable documents; PDFs of Edison's 1,093 patents 

Science Museum-London www logo "Making the Modern World"

 
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Images

 

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Islamic noria (water-raising wheel) in Cordoba, Spain
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Leonardo and Renaissance Engineering tjm

Crystal Palace (1851)
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Virtual Manchester 
WWW
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Sheffield-Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet 
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"Steelton to Mandalay" [1902 railroad bridge in Burma] 
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"Railways of India" 
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Reading questions

1. Technologies of the Court_[updated Nov. 2021]

2. Techniques of Commerce [updated Nov. 2021]

3. Geographies of Industry_[updated Nov. 2021]

4. Instruments of Empire _[updated Nov. 2021]

5. Science and Systems_[updated Nov. 2021]

6. Materials of Modernism_[updated Nov. 2021]

7. Means of Destruction  [updated Nov. 2021]

8. Global Culture _[updated Nov. 2021]

9. Paths to Insecurity _[updated Nov. 2021]

10. Dominance of the Digital [updated Dec. 2021]

11.
Question of Technology _[updated Nov. 2021]

 
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