Author:
Burns, William E.
Imprint:Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c2005.
Description1 online resource :xxxviii, 182 p. : ill.
Note:Chronology -- Making a living: agriculture -- Wood, fruit crops, and other tree products -- Making a living: manufacturing and industry -- The world of the sea -- Technology in domestic life -- Architecture and housing -- Transportation -- Reading and seeing: the technology of words and images -- Science and technology on the land: surveying and cartography -- Technology and war -- Natural knowledge in American colonial societies -- The scientific revolution in colonial America -- The age of Benjamin Franklin.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-173) and index.
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