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• W4376543708 abstract "184 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE research of the past two or three decades (known to readers of this journal) on the relationships among technology and other areas of social, economic, and cultural activity. Henry Lowood Dr. Lowood, bibliographer of the History of Science and Technology Collections at Stanford University Libraries, is editor of the bibliography published annually in Technology and Culture. He is completing projects on the history of Silicon Valley and on the historical relationship between print technology and the development of the natural sciences. Early American Scientific and Technical Literature: An Annotated Bibliog­ raphy ofBooks, PamphUts, and Broadsides. By Margaret W. Batschelet. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1990. Pp. xii+136; indexes. $20.00. A bibliography should aid a distinct and previously underserved scholarly niche. The compiler should be sufficiently familiar with the scholarship and tools of scholarship in a held to be able to define the need and respond to it with a substantially original contribution. Even a carefully designed and well-organized bibliography (such as this one) will not add to the scholar’s tool chest if the compiler lacks that familiarity or does not seek to be original. I believe Early American Scientific and Technical Literature fails on both those accounts. This compact, annotated list of 833 entries covers medical, scien­ tific, and technical works published up to 1799 in the British seaboard colonies and the infant United States in book, pamphlet, map, chart, and broadside form. Most of the items were retrieved from other bibliographies or from citations in monographs on early American science and technology. Margaret Batschelet in fact keys the entries to a list of standard bibliographies. By my estimate, as many as 95 percent of the entries are accessible through the listed standard bibliographic tools, such as Evans’s American Bibliography and its supplements. Had Batschelet turned to a few additional works, such as Evald Rink’s Technical Americana, the percentage might well have been higher. The entries are categorized as medical (45 percent), technical science (38 percent), and natural and physical science (17 percent). Batschelet does not seem surefooted in placing items in the technical science section, which includes numerous maps, nautical charts, and mathematical works. Annotations of certain entries in that section could be misleading for those not already knowledgeable: Oliver Evans’s The Young Mill-Wright and Miller’s Guide brings forth the comment that “Evans built the first successful steam engine for use in a mill.” Moreover, specialists may find that the compiler’s search was less than thorough; I quickly determined that three pamphlets relating to the establishment of the Philadelphia Waterworks in the TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 185 1790s are not included. These items could have been found by a personal search of major repositories for early American imprints (e.g., the Library Company of Philadelphia). Although this bibliography may be useful to scholars who do not have access to the standard bibliographies, it cannot be recommended to librarians and specialists as indispensable to their history of technology collections. Darwin H. Stapleton Dr. Stapleton is director of the Rockefeller Archive Center. He has published two bibliographies: Accounts ofEuropean Science, Technology, and Medicine Written by American Travelers Abroad, 1735—1860 (1985) and The History of Civil Engineering since 1600 (1986). Technology and Power in the Early American Cotton Industry: James Montgomery, the Second Edition ofHis “Cotton Manufacture” (1840), and theJustitia Controversy about Relative Power Costs. By David J. Jeremy. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1990. Pp. xiv + 348; illustrations, tables, notes, index. $38.00. David Jeremy’s new edition of two classic texts in the held of early industrialization is informed by the literature on comparative AngloAmerican technological development—a vein that he has mined before and whose riches are demonstrably not yet played out. The principal document reprinted isJames Montgomery’s revised account of processes and costs in the cotton mills of Britain and the United States during the late 1830s and early 1840s. Montgomery’s remarks on the relative economy of steam and waterpower touched off a series of acerbic exchanges between advocates of these supposedly irrecon­ cilable power generation systems; a diligent research assistant has exhumed the literary missiles bred by the..." @default.
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