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Age of Great Inventions Learning Guide: Citations

Age of Great Inventions Learning Guide: Citations

Sources we cite in Age of Great Inventions

1 Eric Foner, ed., Give Me Liberty!, Vol. ii (New York: W.W. Norton, 2005), 512.
2 " Montgomery Ward, " Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica Online, http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9076098/Montgomery-Ward
3 Robert G. Barrows, "Urbanizing America," The Gilded Age: Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America, ed. Charles W. Calhoun (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield: 2007), 113.
4 Robert G. Barrows, "Urbanizing America," The Gilded Age: Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America, ed. Charles W. Calhoun (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield: 2007), 103.
5 Henry D. Thoreau, Walden (New York: Crowell, 1910), http://books.google.com/books?id=yiQ3AAAAIAAJ&
6 Gary Cross and Rick Szostak, Technology and American Society (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995), 172.
7 W. Bernard Carlson, "Technology and America as a Consumer Society, 1870-1900," The Gilded Age: Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America (2007), 37.
8 W. Bernard Carlson, "Technology and America as a Consumer Society, 1870-1900," The Gilded Age: Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America (2007), 36-39.
9 W. Bernard Carlson, "Technology and America as a Consumer Society, 1870-1900," The Gilded Age: Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America (2007), 42.
10 "New York honours electrocuted elephant," BBC News, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/americas/3083029.stm
11 W. Bernard Carlson, "Technology and America as a Consumer Society, 1870-1900," The Gilded Age: Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America (2007), 33-36.
12 Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003), 299.
13 This section is heavily informed by Andrea Gabor's discussion of Taylor and the differential-rate idea in The Capitalist Philosophers (New York, NY: Three Rivers Press, 2002)
14 Gary Cross and Rick Szostak, Technology and American Society (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995), 154.
15 Owen Wister, quoted in David Minter, "A Cultural History of the Modern Novel," The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 6, Prose Writing, 1910-1950, ed. Sacvan Bercovitch (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 38.
16 The quotes in this section, as well as much of its general argument, appear in the closing chapter of Alan Trachtenberg's The Incorporation of America (New York: Hill and Wang, 1983).
17 "universal time," The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001-07)
18 Kirk Simon and Karen Goodman, The Telephone (Boston, MA: WGBH Educational Foundation, 1997), American Experience, PBS, transcript at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/telephone/filmmore/transcript/index.html
19 Gary Cross and Rick Szostak, Technology and American Society (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995), 171.
20 Harold Evans, et al., They Made America (New York, NY: Time Warner Book Group, 2004), 250.
21 Gary Cross and Rick Szostak, Technology and American Society (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995), 165.
22 Harold Evans, et al., They Made America (New York, NY: Time Warner Book Group, 2004), 156.
23 W. Bernard Carlson, "Technology and America as a Consumer Society, 1870-1900," The Gilded Age: Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America (2007), 42.
24 "New York honours electrocuted elephant," BBC News, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/americas/3083029.stm
25 "The Film and More: Program Description," Edison's Miracle of Light, dir. Matthew Collins, American Experience, PBS, 1995, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/edison/filmmore/description.html
26 Albert Beveridge, 1897, quoted in Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States (New York: Harper Collins, 2003), 299.
27 Quoted in "Telephone Tales--Mr. Watson, come here, I want you!: Lost and Found Sound--Looking at the First Phone Call," All Things Considered, NPR, originally broadcast 19 March 1999, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3602515
28 Frederick Winslow Taylor, quoted in Delmar W. Karger and Franklin H. Bayha, Engineered Work Measurement, (New York: Industrial Press Inc., 1986), 5. Also see: Frederick Winslow Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Measurement (New York: Harper, 1911), http://books.google.com/books?id=5ek4cYPdndYC
29 Henry David Thoreau, Walden, ed. Raymond McDonald Alden (New York: Longman, Green and Co., 1910), 45.