History of Science in the United States: The Nineteenth Century

Subject Bibliography of Books and Dissertations (ca.1980 - )

 

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Disease

SUBJECT

CITATION

Disease

Bates, Barbara. Bargaining for Life: A Social History of Tuberculosis, 1876-1938. (Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving in America). 435pp. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992.

Disease

Bloom, Khaled J. The Mississippi Valleys Great Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878. 290pp. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993.

Disease

Boyd, Robert T. The Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence: Introduced Infectious Diseases and Population Decline among Northwest Coast Indians, 1774-1874. 403pp. Vancouver: UBC Press; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999.

Disease

Brandt, Allan M. “No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States, 1880-1890. DAI 44/01 (1983): 264-A. (Doct. diss., Columbia University, 1983)

Disease

Brandt, Allan M. No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States since 1880. 245pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Disease

Brandt, Allan M. No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States since 1880. Expanded edition. 266pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Disease

Caldwell, Mark. The Last Crusade: The War on Consumption, 1862-1954. 336pp. New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, 1988.

Disease

Ellison, David L. Healing Tuberculosis in the Woods: Medicine and Science at the End of the Nineteenth Century. (Contributions in Medical Studies, no. 41). 201pp. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.

Disease

Feldberg, Georgiana D. “‘An Antitoxin of Self Respect’: North American Debates over Vaccination Against Tuberculosis, 1890-1960. DAI 50/12 (1990): 4078-A. (Doct. diss., Harvard University, 1989)

DISEASE

Gehlbach, Stephen H. American Plagues: Lessons from Our Battles with Disease. 273pp. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005.

DISEASE

Grob, Gerald N. The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America. 349pp. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. 

Disease

Hammonds, Evelynn Maxine. “The Search for Perfect Control: A Social History of Diphtheria, 1880-1930. DAI 54/03 (1993): 1073-A. (Doct. diss., Harvard University, 1993)

Disease

Hammonds, Evelynn Maxine. Childhoods Deadly Scourge: The Campaign to Control Diphtheria in New York City, 1880-1930. 299pp. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

DISEASE

Jones, David Shumway. Rationalizing Epidemics: Meanings and Uses of American Indian Mortality since 1600. 294pp. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.

DISEASE

Keirns, Carla Christine. “Short of Breath: A Social and Intellectual History of Asthma in the United States.” DAI 65/11 (2005): 4326-A. (Doct. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2004)

DISEASE

Lowry, Thomas P. Venereal Disease and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. 117pp. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.

Disease

McQuien, Carolyn J. “Tuberculosis as Chronic Illness in the United States: Understanding, Treating, and Living with the Disease, 1884-1954. DAI 54/12 (1994): 4566-A. (Doct. diss., University of Texas, Austin, 1993)

DISEASE

Moran, Michelle Therese. “Colonizing Leprosy: Imperialism, Patients, and the Politics of Public Health in Hawai’i and Louisiana.” DAI 63/11 (2003): 4056-A. (Doct. diss., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2002) 

Disease

Ott, Katherine. “The Intellectual Origins and Cultural Form of Tuberculosis in the United States, 1870-1925. DAI 52/02 (1991): 659-A. (Doct. diss., Temple University, 1991)

Disease

Ott, Katherine. Fevered Lives: Tuberculosis in American Culture since 1870. 242 pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996.

DISEASE

Pierce, John R. and Jim Writer. Yellow Jack: How Yellow Fever Ravaged America and Walter Reed Discovered Its Deadly Secrets. 278pp. Hoboken: Wiley, 2005.

Disease

Presley, James W. “A History of Diabetes Mellitus in the United States, 1880-1990. DAI 52/06 (1992): 2687-A. (Doct. diss., University of Texas-Austin, 1991)

DISEASE

Robertson, Roland G. Rotting Face: Smallpox and the American Indian. 329pp.Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton, 2001. 

Disease

Rosenkrantz, Barbara Gutmann, editor. From Consumption to Tuberculosis: A Documentary History. (Garland Reference Library of Social Science, v. 808. Diseases, Epidemics, and Medicine). 623pp. New York: Garland Publishing, 1993. (American documents)

Disease

Rothman, Sheila M. Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in America. 319pp. New York: BasicBooks, 1994.

Disease

Ryan, Frank. The Forgotten Plague: How the Battle Against Tuberculosis Was Won--and Lost. 1st American edition. 460pp. Boston: Little, Brown, 1993. (First published in the United Kingdom as: Tuberculosis: The Greatest Story Never Told. Covers Europe and the United States)

Disease

Talley, Colin Lee. “A History of Multiple Sclerosis and Medicine in the United States, 1870-1960. DAI 59/08 (1999): 3177-A. (Doct. diss., University of California, San Francisco, 1998)

Disease

Teller, Michael E. “The American Tuberculosis Crusade, 1889-1917: The Rise of a Modern Health Campaign. DAI 46/09 (1986): 2791-A. (Doct. diss., University of Chicago, 1985)

Disease

Teller, Michael E. The Tuberculosis Movement: A Public Health Campaign in the Progressive Era. (Contributions in Medical Studies, 22). 182pp. New York / Westport, Conn. / London: Greenwood Press, 1988.

DISEASE:

California

Abel, Emily K. Suffering in the Land of Sunshine: A Los Angeles Illness Narrative. 176pp. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006.

Disease:

Louisiana

Carrigan, Jo Ann. The Saffron Scourge: A History of Yellow Fever in Louisiana, 1796-1905. 487pp. Lafayette, La.: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1994.

Disease:

California

Craddock, Susan L. “Diseases on the Margin: Morphologies of Tuberculosis and Smallpox in San Francisco, 1860-1940. DAI 56/05 (1995): 1926-A. (Doct. diss., University of California at Berkeley, 1994)

DISEASE:

Institutional

Damsky, Ellen. “A Way of Life: Saranac Lake and the ‘Fresh Air’ Cure for Tuberculosis.” DAI 64/08 (2004): 2945-A. (Doct. diss., State University of New York, Binghampton, 2003) 

DISEASE:

Institutional

Gaudet, Marcia. Carville: Remembering Leprosy in America. 221pp. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004. 

DISEASE:

Virginia

Lundgren, Burden Susan. “The Great Pestilence: Yellow Fever in Portsmouth, Virginia, 1855.” DAI 66/10 (2006): -B. (Doct. diss., Old Dominion University, 2005)

Disease:

Pennsylvania

McCarthy, Michael P. Typhoid and the Politics of Public Health in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia. (Memoirs of the APS, vol. 179). 101pp. Philadelphia, Penn.: American Philosophical Society, 1987.

Disease:

Mississippi

Nuwer, Deanne L. S. “The 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Mississippi. DAI 58/01 (1997): 265-A. (Doct. Diss., University of Southern Mississippi, 1996)

DISEASE:

Maryland

Roberts, Samuel Kelton. “Infectious Fear: Tuberculosis, Public Health, and the Logic of Race and Illness in Baltimore, Maryland, 1880-1930.” DAI 63/08 (2003): 2986-A. (Doct. diss., Princeton University, 2002) 

DISEASE:

Pennsylvania

Taylor, P. Sean. “‘We live in the midst of death’: Yellow Fever, Moral Economy, and Public Health in Philadelphia, 1793–1805.” DAI 62/05 (2001): 1928-A. (Doct. diss., (Northern Illinois University, 2001) 

DISEASE:

Louisiana

Trask, Benjamin H. Fearful Ravages: Yellow Fever in New Orleans, 1796-1905. (Louisiana Life Series, 12). 169pp. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2005.

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Drugs (Use and Addiction)

SUBJECT

CITATION

DRUGS (USE AND ADDICTION)

Acker, Caroline Jean and Sarah W. Tracy, editors. Altering American Consciousness: The History of Alcohol and Drug Use in the United States, 1800-2000. 414pp.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. 

DRUGS (USE AND ADDICTION)

Acker, Caroline Jean. Creating the American Junkie: Addiction Research in the Classic Era of Narcotic Control. 276pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. 

Drugs (use and addiction)

Ahmad, Diana L. “‘Cave of Oblivion’: Opium Dens and Exclusion Laws, 1850-1882. 211pp. DAI 59/07 (1999): 2682-A. (Doct. diss., University of Missouri, Columbia, 1997)

Drugs (use and addiction)

Burnham, John C. Bad Habits: Drinking, Smoking, Taking Drugs, Gambling, Sexual Misbehavior, and Swearing in American History. (The American Social Experience Series, 28). 385pp. New York: New York University Press, 1993.

Drugs (use and addiction)

Courtwright, David T. “Opiate Addiction in America, 1800-1940. DAI 40/03 (1979): 1646-A. (Doct. diss., Rice University, 1979)

Drugs (use and addiction)

Courtwright, David T. Dark Paradise: Opiate Addiction in America before 1940. 270pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982.

Drugs (use and addiction)

Hickman, Timothy A. “The Double Meaning of Addiction: Habitual Narcotic Use, Social Degradation and Professional Medical Authority in the United States, 1870-1920. DAI 58/03 (1997): 1048-A. (Doct. diss., University of California at Irvine, 1997)

Drugs (use and addiction)

Jaffe, Arnold. “Addiction Reform in the Progressive Age: Scientific and Social Responses to Drug Dependence in the United States, 1870-1930. DAI 39/08 (1979): 5104-A. (Doct. diss., University of Kentucky, 1976)

Drugs (use and addiction)

Jones, Jill. “A History of America’s Drug Culture, 1865-1965. DAI 53/05 (1992): 1643-A. (Doct. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1992)

Drugs (use and addiction)

Kinney, John Charles. “Alcoholic Inebriety: A Study of Its Perceived Nature, Causation, and Treatment in America, 1857-1914. DAI 61/07 (2001): 2886-A. (Doct. diss., University of Illinois, Chicago, 2000)

Drugs (use and addiction)

Mancall, Peter C. Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America. 268pp. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995.

DRUGS (USE AND ADDICTION)

Mathews, Patricia Spaniol. “Treatment of Alcoholism: The American Experience, 1850-2000.” DAI 62/11 (2002): 3911-A. (Doct diss., Florida State University, 2001) 

Drugs (use and addiction)

Morgan, H. Wayne. Drugs in America: A Social History, 1800-1980. 233pp. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1981.

Drugs (use and addiction)

Spillane, Joseph F. Cocaine: From Medical Marvel to Modern Menace in the United States, 1884-1920. 214pp. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Drugs (use and addiction)

Spillane, Joseph F. “Modern Drug, Modern Menace: The Legal Use and Distribution of Cocaine in the United States, 1880-1920. DAI 56/01 (1995): 334-A. (Doct. diss., Carnegie Mellon University, 1994)

DRUGS (USE AND ADDICTION)

Tracy, Sarah W. Alcoholism in America: From Reconstruction to Prohibition. 357pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

Drugs (use and addiction)

Zimmerman, Jonathan. Distilling Democracy: Alcohol Education in Americas Public Schools, 1880-1925. 208pp. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, c1999.

DRUGS (USE AND ADDICTION):

Artifacts, instruments, substances

Seiler, Lars Winfried. “The Development of an Anti-opium Ideology in Late Nineteenth Century America.” DAI 65/04 (2004): 1511-A. (Doct. diss., University of South Carolina, 2004) 

DRUGS (USE AND ADDICTION):

Institutional

Crowley, John W. and William L. White. Drunkard’s Refuge: The Lessons of the New York State Inebriate Asylum. 127pp. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. 

Drugs (use and addiction):

Institutional

Tracy, Sarah W. “The Foxborough Experiment: Medicalizing Inebriety at the Massachusetts Hospital for Dipsomaniacs and Inebriates, 1833-1919. DAI 53/11 (1993): 4061-A. (Doct. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1992)

DRUGS (USE AND ADDICTION):

Sources

Musto, David F., editor. Drugs in America: A Documentary History. 574pp. New York: New York University Press, 2002. 

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Earth Sciences (General)

SUBJECT

CITATION

Earth sciences (general)

Hineline, Mark Lawrence. “The Visual Culture of the Earth Sciences, 1863-1970. DAI 55/03 (1994): 713-A. (Doct. diss., University of California, San Diego, 1993)

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Ecology

SUBJECT

CITATION

Ecology

Duff, A. A Comparative Study of the Institutionalisation of Ecology in Britain and the United States, 1890-1918. (Doct. diss, Manchester University (UK), 1980)

ECOLOGY

Gruell, George E. Fire in Sierra Nevada Forests: A Photographic Interpretation of Ecological Change since 1849. 238pp. Missoula, Mont.: Mountain Press, 2001. 

ECOLOGY

Kingsland, Sharon E. Evolution of American Ecology, 1890-2000. 313pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

Ecology

Tobey, Ronald C. Saving the Prairies: The Life Cycle of the Founding School of American Plant Ecology, 1895-1955. 310pp. Berkeley / Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1982.

ECOLOGY:

Biographical

Croker, Robert A. Stephen Forbes and the Rise of American Ecology. 232pp. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001. 

Ecology:

Biographical

Lovely, Robert Allyn. “Mastering Nature’s Harmony: Stephen Forbes and the Roots of American Ecology. DAI 56/05 (1995): 1955-A. (Doct. diss, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1995)

Ecology:

Biographical

Mooser, Henrietta K. “John Dewey’s Contribution to an Emerging Ecological Perspective. DAI 48/07 (1988): 1697-A. (Doct. diss., Columbia University Teachers College, 1987)

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Economics (Field of Study)

SUBJECT

CITATION

Economics (field of study)

Gibson, James Russell, Jr. “Americans versus Malthus: The Population Debate in the Early Republic, 1790-1840. DAI 46/01 (1985): 245-A. (Doct. diss., Clark University, 1982)

Economics (field of study)

Gibson, James Russell, Jr. Americans versus Malthus: The Population Debate in the Early Republic, 1790-1840. (Garland Series in Historical Demography). 481pp. New York: Garland, 1989.

ECONOMICS (FIELD OF STUDY)

Stapleford, Thomas Anderson. “‘The Most Important Single Statistic’: The Consumer Price Index and American Political Economy, 1880-1955.” DAI 64/05 (2003): 1825-A. (Doct. diss., Harvard University, 2003) 

Economics (field of study):

Biographical

Maynard, Raymond Anthony. “Thorstein Veblen on Culture, Biology, and Evolution. DAI 61/06 (2000): 2407-A. (Doct. diss., University of Tennessee, 2000)

Economics (field of study):

Biographical

Tilman, Rick. Thorstein Veblen and His Critics, 1891-1963: Conservative, Liberal, and Radical Perspectives. 356pp. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992.

Economics (field of study):

Biographical

Tilman, Rick. The Intellectual Legacy of Thorstein Veblen: Unresolved Issues. (Contributions in economics and economic history; no.176). 259pp. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996.

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Education in Science

SUBJECT

CITATION

Education in science

Berner, Christopher J. “Die Wanderjahre: The Higher Education of American Students in German Universities, 1870 to 1914. DAI 46/04 (1985): 1106-A. (Doct. diss., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1984. History of sociology)

EDUCATION IN SCIENCE

Doris, Ellen Elizabeth. “The Practice of Nature-Study: What Reformers Imagined and What Teachers Did.” DAI 63/06 (2002): 2165-A. (Doct. diss., Harvard University, 2002) 

Education in science

Lerman, Nina Evelyn. “From ‘Useful Knowledge’ to ‘Habits of Industry’: Gender, Race, and Class in Nineteenth-Century Technical Education. DAI 54/03 (1993): 1071-A. (Doct. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1993)

Education in science

Montgomery, Scott L. Minds for the Making: The Role of Science in American Education, 1750 -1990. 316pp. New York: Guilford Press, 1994.

Education in science

Nichols, Bethany Kim. “Intellectual Independence and Science as a Way of Knowing: Persistent Themes through the Science Education Literature from 1890 to 1950. DAI 57/06 (1996): 2422-A. (Doct. diss., University of Georgia, 1995)

Education in science

Roberts, David L. “Mathematics and Pedagogy: Professional Mathematicians and American Educational Reform, 1893-1923. DAI 59/01 (1998): 297-A. (Doct. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1998)

Education in science

Tolley, Kimberly F. H. “The Science Education of American Girls, 1784-1932. DAI 57/09 (1997): 3853-A. (Doct. diss., University of California at Berkeley, 1996)

EDUCATION IN SCIENCE

Tolley, Kimberley. The Science Education of American Girls: A Historical Perspective. (Studies in the History of Education Series). 287pp. New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2002. 

Education in science

Turpin, Pamela Coffey. “A Comparative Analysis of Reforms in Organizing Curricula and Methods of Secondary Science Instruction in the United States during the Last Decades of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. DAI 54/10 (1994): 3711-A. (Doct. diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1993)

Education in science:

Biographical

Herrera, Charles S. “Ira Remsen and the Transformation of American Graduate Education. DAI 54/11 (1994): 4008-A. (Doct. diss., Arizona State University, 1993)

Education in science:

Institutional

Glickman, Gene Debra. “A Study of the Role of Women in the Transformation of the Curriculum at the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of Mechanic Arts from 1825-1875. DAI 53/10 (1993). (Doct. diss., University of Maryland, 1992)

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Electricity and Electronics

SUBJECT

CITATION

Electricity and electronics

Hay, Duncan. Hydroelectric Development in the United States, 1880-1940. 2 vols. Washington, D.C.: Edison Electric Institute, 1991.

Electricity and electronics

Hayashi, Yoshikatsu. “The Introduction of American Technology into the Japanese Electrical Industry: Another Aspect of Japanese - American Relations at the Turn of the Century. DAI 47/04 (1986): 1451-A. (Doct. diss., University of California-Santa Barbara, 1986)

Electricity and electronics

Hellrigel, Mary Ann. “The Quest to Be ‘Modern’: The Adoption of Electric Light, Heat, and Power Technology in Small-Town America, 1883-1929. DAI 58/10 (1998): 4044-A. (Doct. diss., Case Western Reserve University)

Electricity and electronics

Hughes, Thomas P. Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930. 474pp. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. (U.S., Great Britain, and Germany)

ELECTRICITY AND ELECTRONICS

Jakle, John A. City Lights: Illuminating the American Night. (Landscapes of the Night). 292pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. 

Electricity and electronics

Maril, Nadja. American Lighting, 1840-1940. 167pp. Westchester, Penn.: Schiffer, 1989.

ELECTRICITY AND ELECTRONICS

McNichol, Tom. AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War. 198pp. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006.

Electricity and electronics

Nye, David E. Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940. 479pp. Cambridge / London: MIT Press, 1990.

Electricity and electronics

Rossell, Edward Graham Daves. “Compelling Vision: From Electric Light to Illuminating Engineering, 1880-1940. DAI 60/05 (1999): 1364-A. (Doct. diss., University of California, Berkeley, 1998)

Electricity and electronics

Rudolph, Richard and Scott Ridley. Power Struggle: The Hundred-Year War over Electricity. 305pp. New York: Harper and Row, 1986.

Electricity and electronics

Ryder, John D. and Donald G. Fink. Engineers & Electrons: A Century of Electrical Progress. 251pp. New York: IEEE Press, 1984.

Electricity and electronics

Schallenberg, Richard H. Bottled Energy: Electrical Engineering and the Evolution of Chemical Energy Storage. (APS Memoirs, vol. 148). 420pp. Philadelphia, Penn.: American Philosophical Society, 1982. (Includes American aspects, especially Thomas Edison)

Electricity and electronics:

Artifacts, instruments, substances

Bazerman, Charles. The Languages of Edisons Light. (Inside technology). 416pp. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c1999.

ELECTRICITY AND ELECTRONICS:

Artifacts, instruments, substances

Moran, Richard. Executioner’s Current: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and the Invention of the Electric Chair. 271pp. New York: Knopf, 2002. 

Electricity and electronics:

Biographical

Adair, Gene. Thomas Alva Edison: Inventing the Electric Age. (Oxford Portraits in Science). 144pp. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Electricity and electronics:

Biographical

Anderson, Leland I., editor. Nikola Tesla on His Work with Alternating Currents and Their Application to Wireless Telegraphy, Telephony, and Transmission of Power: An Extended Interview. 237pp. Denver, Col.: Sun Publishing, 1992.

Electricity and electronics:

Biographical

Baldwin, Neil. Edison: Inventing the Century. 531pp. New York: Hyperion, 1995.

ELECTRICITY AND ELECTRONICS:

Biographical

Buonanno, Joseph F. “Thomas A. Edison: Wizard of Menlo Park, or Ordinary Thinker? A Case Study in the Psychology of Creativity.” DAI 67/01 (2006): -B. (Doct. diss., Temple University, 2005)

Electricity and electronics:

Biographical

Cheney, Margaret and Robert Uth. Tesla: Master of Lightning. 184pp. New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1999.

Electricity and electronics:

Biographical

Cheney, Margaret. Tesla: Man Out of Time. 320pp. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1981.

ELECTRICITY AND ELECTRONICS:

Biographical

Collins, Theresa M. and Lisa Gitelman. Thomas Edison and Modern America: A Brief History with Documents. 205pp. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2002. 

Electricity and electronics:

Biographical

Conot, Robert. A Streak of Luck. 565pp. New York: Seaview Books, 1979. (Concerning Thomas Edison)

ELECTRICITY AND ELECTRONICS:

Biographical

Davis, Lawrence J. Fleet Fire: Thomas Edison and the Pioneers of the Electric Revolution. 350pp. New York: Arcade Pub., 2003. 

Electricity and electronics:

Biographical

Finn, Bernard S. and Robert Friedel. Edison: Lighting a Revolution; The Beginnings of Electrical Power. 90pp. New York: Science History Publications/USA, 1979.

Electricity and electronics:

Biographical

Friedel, Robert and Paul Israel. Edisons Electric Light: Biography of an Invention. 263pp. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1986.

Electricity and electronics:

Biographical

Israel, Paul. Edison: A Life of Invention. 552pp. New York: John Wiley, c1998.

ELECTRICITY AND ELECTRONICS:

Biographical

Jonnes, Jill. Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World. 416pp. New York: Random House, 2003. 

Electricity and electronics:

Biographical

Melosi, Martin V. Thomas A. Edison and the Modernization of America. 221pp. Glenview, Ill.: Scott Foresman  / Little Brown Higher Education, 1990.

Electricity and electronics:

Biographical

Millard, A. J. Edison and the Business of Invention. (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology). 387pp. Baltimore / London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.

Electricity and electronics:

Biographical

Nye, David E. The Invented Self: An Anti-Biography, from Documents of Thomas A. Edison. (Odense University Studies in English, 7). 229pp. Odense, Denmark: Odense University Press, 1983.

Electricity and electronics:

Biographical

Ratzlaff, John T. and Leland I. Anderson. Dr. Nikola Tesla Bibliography. 237pp. Palo Alto, Calif.: Ragusan Press, 1979. (Photo-offset from typescript.)

Electricity and electronics:

Biographical

Seifer, Marc J. Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius. 542 pp. Secaucus, N.J.: Carol Pub., c1996.

Electricity and electronics:

Biographical

Tesla, Nikola. My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla. Edited with an introduction by Ben Johnston. 112pp. Williston, Vt.: Hart Brothers, 1982.

Electricity and electronics:

Biographical

Tesla, Nikola. The Complete Patents of Nikola Tesla. Edited by Jim Glenn. 535pp. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1994.

Electricity and electronics:

Biographical

Wachhorst, Wyn. Thomas Alva Edison: An American Myth. 328pp. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1981.

Electricity and electronics:

Illinois

Platt, Harold L. The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area, 1880-1930. 318pp. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Electricity and electronics:

Institutional

Adams, Stephen B. and Orville B. Butler. Manufacturing the Future: A History of Western Electric. 270pp. Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Electricity and electronics:

Institutional

Brown, Shannon Allen. “Annihilating Time and Space: The Electrification of the United States Army, 1875-1920. DAI 61/07 (2001): 2867-A. (Doct. diss., University of California, Santa Cruz, 2000)

Electricity and electronics:

Institutional

Lurkis, Alexander. The Power Brink: A Centennial of Electricity-Con Edison. 207pp. Hollis, N.Y.: Icare Press, 1982.

Electricity and electronics:

Institutional

Nye, David E. Image Worlds: Corporate Identities at General Electric, 1890-1930. 188pp. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985.

Electricity and electronics:

New York

Belfield, Robert Blake. “The Niagara Frontier: The Evolution of Electric Power Systems in New York and Ontario, 1880-1935. DAI 42/03 (1981): 1288-A. (Doct. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1981)

Electricity and electronics:

Sources (archival)

Edison, Thomas A. The Papers of Thomas A. Edison. Jenkins, Reese V. and others, editors. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989-

Electricity and electronics:

Sources (archival)

Edison, Thomas A. Thomas A. Edison Papers: A Selective Microfilm Edition. Frederick, Md.: University Publications of America, 1985-. (Published in parts, each with a printed guide: Part I (1850-1878), reels 1-28; Part II (1879-1886), reels 29-97); Part III (1887-1898), reels 98-162; Part IV (1899-1910), reels 163-227)

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Embryology

SUBJECT

CITATION

Embryology:

Institutional

Werdinger, Jeffrey. “Embryology at Woods Hole: The Emergence of a New American Biology. DAI 41/06 (1980): 2743-A. (Doct. diss., Indiana University, 1980)

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Energy (Science and Policy)

SUBJECT

CITATION

ENERGY (SCIENCE AND POLICY)

Castaneda, Christopher J. Invisible Fuel: Manufactured and Natural Gas in America, 1800-2000. 250pp. New York: Twayne, 1999. 

Energy (science and policy)

Donovan, Arthur L., editor. Energy in American HistoryElmsford, N. Y.: Pergamon Press, 1983. (Materials and Society, vol. 7, nos. 3 and 4 [pp.243-487])

Energy (science and policy)

Engler, Robert, editor. Americas Energy: Reports from THE NATION on 100 Years of Struggles for the Democratic Control of Our Resources. 443pp. New York: Pantheon, 1980.

Energy (science and policy)

Nye, David E. Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies. 331pp. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c1998.

Energy (science and policy)

Rose, Mark H. Cities of Light and Heat: Domesticating Gas and Electricity in Urban America. 229pp. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995.

 

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