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Popular Science: Science Year by Year: Discoveries and Inventions from the 20th Century that Shape Our Lives Today. Scholastic, 2001. Based on the popular magazine, a look at the history of scientific inventions.
Gies, Frances, and Joseph Gies. Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages. HarperCollins, 1994. Examines technological developments from AD 500 to 1500.
Karwatka, Dennis. Technology's Past: America's Industrial Revolution and the People Who Delivered the Goods. 2 vols. Prakken, 1996, 1999. Profiles 76 contributors to American invention and technology.
Lindsay, David. The Patent Files: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Invention. Globe Pequot, 2001. An insider's glimpse into the quirky world of inventors.
McKissack, Patricia C., and Frederick McKissack. African-American Inventors. Millbrook, 1994. An overview of African American inventors in the 19th and 20th centuries; for younger readers.
Platt, Richard. The Smithsonian Visual Timeline of Inventions. Dorling Kindersley, 1994, 2001. Timeline showing inventions from 600,000 BC; for younger readers.
Travers, Bridget E., ed. World of Invention. World of Scientific Discovery. Gale, 2nd ed. Gale, 1994. 1998. Two one-volume reference works covering well-known and lesser-known inventions, scientific discoveries, inventors, and scientists.
Tucker, Tom. Brainstorm! The Stories of Twenty American Kid Inventors. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995. Young inventors and their contraptions from the 18th to the 20th century. For younger readers.
Van Dulken, Stephen, and Andrew Phillips. Inventing the Twentieth Century, 100 Inventions that Shaped the World: From the Airplane to the Zipper. NYU Press, 2000. An informative catalog of key inventions we now take for granted.
Technology
Inventing the Modern World: Technology Since 1750. Dorling Kindersley, 2000. An illustrated chronicle of technological innovations from the Industrial Revolution to the World Wide Web.
Bruno, Leonard C. Science & Technology Breakthroughs. Gale Research, 1997. For younger readers.
McClellan, James E., and Harold Dorn. Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction. John Hopkins University Press, 1999. Award-winning treatment of the relationship between science and technology.
McNeil, Ian, and Lance Day, eds. Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology. Routledge, 1995. Profiles important contributors to technology.
Ochoa, George, and Melinda Corey. The Wilson Chronology of Science & Technology. Wilson, 1997. Timeline of scientific progress.
Reynolds, Terry S., and Stephen H. Cutcliffe. Technology and the West. University of Chicago Press, 1997. Explores the history of technology in western culture.
Sussman, Gerald. Communication, Technology, & Politics in the Information Age. Sage, 1997. Social history of technology.
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