Add to ORKGThis dissertation investigates the early evolution of the steamboat in the United States and examines how three inventors-Robert Fulton, Robert R. Livingston, and Colonel John Stevens, III---constructed the first commercially successful steamboats, including the Vermont, the third passenger steamboat built in the US, the earliest surviving example in the archaeological record. Its purpose is to see how the steamboat came to be defined as a distinctive vessel type and to understand how Vermont and other steamboats fit into a historical context of development. In order to do this, it seeks to treat technological development as a social process. The problem is that, historically, the concept 'social' has been narrowly defined, restricted to on...
This book integrates history of science and technology with modern social network theory. Using exam...
This thesis seeks to examine the social and economic standing of the men, women and children who liv...
The nineteenth century saw an explosion in creativity and innovation, often applied to and motivated...
This thesis is an exploration and analytical discussion of the socio-economic response of British so...
Due to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality ...
The advent of steam contributed heavily to the economic transformation of early America, facilitatin...
Steam-propelled vessels transformed North American life in the nineteenth century, but many aspects ...
The nineteenth century witnessed profound developments in North American inland vessel construction....
This thesis explores a variety of literary representations of the American western steamboat during ...
Steamboats became commercially viable in the early nineteenth century, and by the 1830s were arguabl...
Steam navigation began successfully on North Carolina's Cape Fear River in 1818 and within a decade ...
The social science analysis of the history of technologicai artifacts and investments was much devel...
The dissertation is in two parts. The first part develops a largely conjectural reconstruction of t...
Change is a central concern of archaeology, imprinted on and variously visible in the surviving mate...
Steam navigation began successfully on North Carolina's Cape Fear River in 1818 and within a decade ...
This book integrates history of science and technology with modern social network theory. Using exam...
This thesis seeks to examine the social and economic standing of the men, women and children who liv...
The nineteenth century saw an explosion in creativity and innovation, often applied to and motivated...
This thesis is an exploration and analytical discussion of the socio-economic response of British so...
Due to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality ...
The advent of steam contributed heavily to the economic transformation of early America, facilitatin...
Steam-propelled vessels transformed North American life in the nineteenth century, but many aspects ...
The nineteenth century witnessed profound developments in North American inland vessel construction....
This thesis explores a variety of literary representations of the American western steamboat during ...
Steamboats became commercially viable in the early nineteenth century, and by the 1830s were arguabl...
Steam navigation began successfully on North Carolina's Cape Fear River in 1818 and within a decade ...
The social science analysis of the history of technologicai artifacts and investments was much devel...
The dissertation is in two parts. The first part develops a largely conjectural reconstruction of t...
Change is a central concern of archaeology, imprinted on and variously visible in the surviving mate...
Steam navigation began successfully on North Carolina's Cape Fear River in 1818 and within a decade ...
This book integrates history of science and technology with modern social network theory. Using exam...
This thesis seeks to examine the social and economic standing of the men, women and children who liv...
The nineteenth century saw an explosion in creativity and innovation, often applied to and motivated...