Now in a thoroughly updated new edition, this successful textbook surveys the history of technology in America from the 1600s to the 21st century. Alan I Marcus

Places the British Industrial Revolution in global context, providing a fresh perspective on the relationship between technology and society.

Why did the industrial revolution take place in 18th century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolu

A century and a half before the modern information technology revolution, machinists in the eastern United States created the nation's first high technology ind