AS11

Athena Library of American Studies

Part 11, Vols 39-42: Cultural History, 1st series

アメリカ研究基本文献シリーズ

アメリカの発明と社会

全4巻

ISBN 978-4-86340-037-5 ・菊判

定価　本体76,000円+税　▶ 2010年

アメリカ社会に著しい発展をもたらした技術革新についての歴史を、一般読者向けにまとめた研究書。

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Contents

Volume 39. Edward W. Bym The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century (1900)

ISBN 978-4-86340-038-2 • 486 pp., ill.

18,000 円 +税

The Perspective View • Chronology of Leading Inventions of the Nineteenth Century • The Electric Telegraph • The Atlantic Cable • The Dynamo and Its Applications • The Electric Motor • The Electric Light • The Telephone • Electricity, Miscellaneous • The Steam Engine • The Steam Railway • Steam Navigation • Printing • The Typewriter • The Sewing Machine • The Reaper • Vulcanized Rubber • Chemistry • Food and Drink • Medicine, Surgery and Sanitation • The Bicycle and Automobile • The Phonograph • Optics • Photography • The Roentgen or X-Rays • Gas Lighting • Civil Engineering • Woodworking • Metal Working • Fire Arms and Explosives • Textiles • Ice Machines • Liquid Air • Minor Inventions and Patents • Index

Volume 40. George Iles Leading American Inventors (1912)

ISBN 978-4-86340-039-9 • 464 pp., 30 pl., ill.

18,000円+税

John and Robert Livingston Stevens • Robert Fulton • Eli Whitney • Thomas Blanchard • Samuel Finley Breese Morse • Charles Goodyear • John Ericsson • Cyrus Hall McCormick • Christopher Latham Sholes • Elias Howe • Benjamin Chew Tilghman • Ottmar Mergenthaler • Index

Volume 41 & 42. Waldemar Kaempffert, ed. A Popular History of American Invention (1924)

ISBN 978-4-86340-040-5 • 2vols. • 1066 pp., ill.

40,000円+税

Part 1, Transportation: American Railroading • How Power Won the Inland Waters • Electric Cars and Trains • The Rise of the Automobile • Man Conquers the Air
Part 2, Communication: The Printed Word • Writing by Machine • The Telegraph • The Telephone • The Radio • Putting Sunlight to Work • Pictures That Live and Move • How Edison Invented the Phonograph
Part 3, Power: Putting Steam to Work • The Rise of Electricity • From Rushlight to Incandescent Lamp
Part 4, Material Resources: Iron and Steel • Mining Copper and the Nobler Metals • Striking Oil • Buried Sunshine: Coal • The American Lumbering Industry • From Plantation to Loom • Farming by Machine
Part 5, Automatic Labor-Saving Devices: Automatic Machine Tools • Putting Air to Work • Making Clothes by Machines • How Shoes Are Made by Machine

Index