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Topic
History
Subtopic
Modern History
Understanding the
Inventions That
Changed the World
Course Guidebook
Professor W. Bernard Carlson
University of Virginia
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W. Bernard Carlson, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department
of Engineering and Society
University of Virginia
rofessor W. Bernard Carlson is Professor
and Chair in the Department of Engineering
and Society at the University of Virginia
and holds a joint appointment with the Corcoran
Department of History. Professor Carlson joined
the faculty at the University of Virginia in 1986, having taught previously at
Michigan Technological University. As an undergraduate, he studied History
and Physics at the College of the Holy Cross. He pursued his graduate work
in the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania,
where he received his Ph.D. in 1984. Professor Carlson subsequently studied
Business History as the Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard
Business School. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford University,
The University of Manchester, and L’École des hautes études en sciences
sociales in Paris, and he has held research appointments at the Deutsches
Museum in Munich and the Smithsonian Institution.
Professor Carlson is an expert on the role of innovation in American history;
his research focuses on how inventors, engineers, and managers used
technology to create new systems and enterprises between 1875 and 1925.
His publications include
Innovation as a Social Process: Elihu Thomson and
the Rise of General Electric, 1870–1900
and the seven-volume
Technology
in World History.
The latter work was awarded the Sally Hacker Prize from
the Society for the History of Technology in 2008 in recognition of its appeal
to a broad audience. With support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation,
Professor Carlson completed a popular biography of Nikola Tesla titled
Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age,
which was published in May 2013.
With Wiebe Bijker and Trevor Pinch, Professor Carlson edits a book series,
Inside Technology, for MIT Press; more than 50 volumes have appeared in
this series.
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Professor Carlson directs the Engineering Business Program at the University
of Virginia and teaches a course called Engineers as Entrepreneurs. For more
than a decade, he was a consultant on history and knowledge management
to Corning Incorporated and has served on the governing boards of several
professional groups related to history, business, and engineering, including
the IEEE History Committee and the Business History Conference. He
currently serves on the Board of Directors of the National Inventors Hall
of Fame and as the Executive Secretary for the Society for the History
of Technology.
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
Professor Biography ............................................................................i
Course Scope .....................................................................................1
LECTURE GUIDES
LECTURE 1
Great Inventions in Everyday Life.......................................................3
LECTURE 2
The Potter’s Wheel and Metallurgy ..................................................10
LECTURE 3
Beer, Wine, and Distilled Spirits .......................................................17
LECTURE 4
The Galley, Coins, and the Alphabet ................................................24
LECTURE 5
Crossbows East and West ...............................................................30
LECTURE 6
Roman Arches—Aqueducts and the Colosseum .............................37
LECTURE 7
Waterwheels and Clocks ..................................................................44
LECTURE 8
Pagodas and Cathedrals ..................................................................51
LECTURE 9
Paper and Printing ............................................................................58
LECTURE 10
Gunpowder, Cannons, and Guns .....................................................65
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