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The Descent of Artificial Intelligence

The Descent of Artificial Intelligence

A Deep History of an Idea Four Hundred Years in the Making

A Radically Different History of AI Spanning Four Centuries of Research on Human Intelligence and Behavior

Technocratic Visions

Technocratic Visions

Engineers, Technology, and Society in Mexico

Explores Mexico’s Long History of State-Influenced Engineering

Far Beyond the Moon

Far Beyond the Moon

A History of Life Support Systems in the Space Age

An Engaging History of the Less Glamorous but Equally Essential Aspects of Space Travel: Sanitation, Food Supply, and Waste Disposal

The Extraction State

The Extraction State

A History of Natural Gas in America

The Story of Natural Gas’s Rise from Unwanted Byproduct to Essential Fuel Source

Radiation Evangelists

Radiation Evangelists

Technology, Therapy, and Uncertainty at the Turn of the Century
Radiation Evangelists explores X-ray and radium therapy in the United States and Great Britain during a crucial period of its development, from 1896 to 1925. It focuses on the pioneering work of early advocates in the field, the “radiation evangelists” who, motivated by their faith in a new technology, trust in new ...
The Life and Legend of James Watt

The Life and Legend of James Watt

Collaboration, Natural Philosophy, and the Improvement of the Steam Engine

A Deeper Understanding of the Work and Character of the Great Eighteenth-Century Engineer

Engineering the Environment

Engineering the Environment

Phytotrons and the Quest for Climate Control in the Cold War

This is the first history of phytotrons, huge climate-controlled laboratories that enabled plant scientists to experiment on the environmental causes of growth and development of living organisms. Made possible by computers and other modern technologies of the early Cold War, phytotrons promised an end to global hunger and political instability, spreading around the world to thirty countries after World War II.

Toxic Airs

Toxic Airs

Body, Place, Planet in Historical Perspective

Toxic Airs brings together historians of medicine, environmental historians, historians of science and technology, and interdisciplinary scholars to address atmospheric issues at a spectrum of scales from body to place to planet. The chapters analyze airborne and atmospheric threats posed to humans. The contributors demonstrate how conceptions of toxicity have evolved over many centuries and how humans have both created and mitigated toxins in the air.

The Sanitary City

The Sanitary City

Environmental Services in Urban America from Colonial Times to the Present

Martin V. Melosi assembles a comprehensive, thoroughly researched and referenced history of sanitary services in urban America. He examines the evolution of water supply, sewage systems, and solid waste disposal during three distinct eras: The Age of Miasmas (pre-1880); The Bacteriological Revolution (1880-1945); and The New Ecology (1945 to present-day). This abridged edition includes updated text and bibliographic materials. The Sanitary City is an essential resource for those interested in environmental history, environmental engineering, science and technology, urban studies, and public health.

Winner of: George Perkins Marsh Prize from the American Society for Environmental History Urban History Association Prize for the best book in North American Urban HistoryAbel Wolman Prize from the Public Works Historical SocietySidney Edelstein Prize from the Society for the History of Technology

Effluent America

Effluent America

Cities, Industry, Energy, and the Environment

Garbage, wastewater, hazardous waste: these are the lenses through which Melosi views nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. In broad overviews and specific case studies, Melosi treats the relationship between industrial expansion and urban growth from an ecological perspective.

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