Carroll W Pursell

Biographic Data

ID192728
NAMECarroll W Pursell
GIVEN NAMESCarroll W
FAMILY NAMEPursell
SIGNATUREPURSELL C W
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS33
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT33
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1962
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
H-INDEX2

  • Technologies as Cultural Practice and Production

    Carroll W Pursell, Carroll PursellARTICLETechnology and Culture2010Cited by: 1

    Technologies as Cultural Practice and Production Carroll W. Pursell (bio) Some thirty years ago I was reading an anthology of American tall tales, and it struck me that the folk heroes who were celebrated could be categorized in various ways: by sex, by race, by century, by their occupations and the scenes of their incredible feats.1 Three in particular shared a striking convergence. In the story of Old Stormalong, the whaling captain with the ov…

  • The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900 (review)

    Carroll W Pursell, Carroll PursellARTICLETechnology and Culture2008

    Reviewed by: The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900 Carroll W. Pursell (bio) The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900. By David Edgerton . New York: Oxford University Press, 2007 Pp. xviii+270. $26. On 2 May 2007, CNN.com carried the headline "Train Carrying Shuttle Rockets Derails." Such a juxtaposition of Robert Stephenson and Robert Goddard would probably appeal to David Edgerton. In his important …

  • Beyond Engineering: How Society Shapes Technology

    Carroll W Pursell, Carroll PursellARTICLETechnology and Culture1999

    Reviewed by: Beyond Engineering: How Society Shapes Technology* Carroll Pursell (bio) Beyond Engineering: How Society Shapes Technology. By Robert Pool. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xii+358; notes, index. $30. This is a volume in the Sloan Technology Series and, like most of the others, is written not by a scholar but by a “writer,” in this case a former senior writer at Science and former news editor at Nature. The res…

  • Yankee Enterprise: The Rise of the American System of Manufactures

    Carroll W Pursell, Carroll Pursell et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1984

  • A List of References for the History of Agricultural Science in America

    Carroll W Pursell, Carroll Pursell et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1983

  • Technology in America: A History of Individuals and Ideas

    David A Hounshell, Carroll W Pursell et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1983

    American Revolution and the Industrial Revolution began at the same time, and ever since the development of America and the development of technology have proceeded in tandem, each dependent on and contributing to the other. From the beginning until well into the twentieth century, technical innovation was largely the work of the rugged individualists who have since entered the pantheon of American folklore: their names, coupled with the enterpri…

  • The History of Technology and the Study of Material Culture

    Open AccessCarroll W Pursell, Carroll PursellARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1983Cited by: 4

    MATERIAL CULTURE HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS THE STUDY THROUGH artifacts (and other pertinent historical evidence) of the belief systems-the values, ideas, attitudes, and assumptions-of a particular community or society, usually across time, with the history of technology designated as a subfield of culture studies.' Over the past quarter-century a growing cadre of scholars has attempted to describe and account for those things with which Americans do …

  • Oliver Evans, Inventive Genius of the American Industrial Revolution

    Carroll W Pursell, Carroll Pursell et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1982

  • Science, Technology, and National Policy

    Carroll W Pursell, Carroll Pursell et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1982

  • The Roanoke Conference-Critical Issues in the History of Technology: Roanoke, Virginia, August 14-18, 1978, I. Summary

    Carroll W Pursell, Carroll PursellARTICLETechnology and Culture1980

  • Government and Technology in the Great Depression

    Carroll W Pursell, Carroll PursellARTICLETechnology and Culture1979

    Even before the onslaught of the Great Depression of 1929, misgivings about the role of technology in Western culture were gaining wide currency. Aggressive insistence upon the inevitability and superiority of machine civilization were countered by denunciations of a new Dark Age of dehumanized enslavement for the soul. With the coming of the depression and its signal characteristic of unemployment in the midst of seeming overproduction, this phi…

  • The Technical Society of the Pacific Coast, 1884-1914

    Carroll W Pursell, Carroll PursellARTICLETechnology and Culture1976Cited by: 1

  • Testing a Carriage: The "American Industry" Series of Scientific American

    Carroll W Pursell, Carroll PursellARTICLETechnology and Culture1976

  • A Trade Catalog on the Transmission of Power by Wire Rope

    Carroll W Pursell, Carroll PursellARTICLETechnology and Culture1975

    Trade catalogs are a still largely ignored-but often extremely rich-source of information for the historian of technology. The cover picture of an intermediate station for a wire-rope driving system, for example, appeared on the front of a promotional pamphlet written by W. A. Roebling for the firm of John A. Roebling's Sons of Trenton, New Jersey. The pamphlet, entitled Description of A New Method of Transmitting Power by Means of Wire Ropes, wa…

  • James Watt and the Steam Revolution. A Documentary History

    Carroll W Pursell, Carroll Pursell et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1971

  • Early Stationary Steam Engines in America: A Study in the Migration of a Technology

    Edwin T Layton, Edwin Layton et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1971

  • Early Stationary Steam Engines in America: A Study in the Migration of a Technology

    W David Lewis, Carroll W Pursell et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1970

  • Readings in Technology and American Life

    Edwin T Layton, Edwin Layton et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1970

  • Ebenezer A. Lester's Pendulum Steam Engine

    Carroll W Pursell, Carroll PursellARTICLETechnology and Culture1969

    The Cover Design EBENEZER A. LESTER’S PENDULUM STEAM ENGINE Ebenezer A. Lester was a resident of Boston, Massachusetts, on May 14, 1827, when he patented his Pendulum Steam Engine. His first contact with steam engines came in 1814 when he entered the employ of George Stiles, an inventor and manufacturer of rotary engines in Baltimore, Maryland. After leaving Baltimore, Lester worked at various times in New York and North Carolina, both in buildin…

  • Christopher Colles's Steam Engine for the New York Water Works, 1775

    Carroll W Pursell, Carroll PursellARTICLETechnology and Culture1969

    The Cover Design CHRISTOPHER COLLES’S STEAM ENGINE FOR THE NEW YORK WATER WORKS, 1775 CARROLL W. PURSELL, JR. In July 1774, the Corporation of the city of New York met “and agreed to Mr. Christopher Colies’s Proposal for supplying this City with fresh Water, by means of a Steam Engine, Reservoir, and Conduit Pipes.”1 The city had reached a population of some 22,000 souls, and the matter of adequate water was already one of considerable concern. C…

  • The Farm Chemurgic Council and the United States Department of Agriculture, 1935-1939

    Carroll W Pursell, Carroll Pursell et al.ARTICLEIsis1969

  • A Preface to Government Support of Research and Development: Research Legislation and the National Bureau of Standards, 1935-41

    Carroll W Pursell, Carroll PursellARTICLETechnology and Culture1968

    Carroll W. Pursell, Jr., A Preface to Government Support of Research and Development: Research Legislation and the National Bureau of Standards, 1935-41, Technology and Culture, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Apr., 1968), pp. 145-164

  • Technology in Western Civilization

    R A Buchanan, Melvin Kranzberg et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1968

  • Safer Skyways: Federal Control of Aviation, 1926-1966

    Carroll W Pursell, Carroll Pursell et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1968

  • The Mechanical Engineer in America, 1830-1910: Professional Cultures in Conflict

    Carroll W Pursell, Carroll Pursell et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1968