Pioneer in the Hardware of Culture: Roger Burlingame's March of the Iron Men and Engines of Democracy

摘要

In teaching the history of technology I have often distributed to my students the appendixes from Roger Burlingame's March of the Iron Men: A Social History of Union through Invention and its sequel, Engines of Democracy: Inventions and Society in Mature America, books published in 1938 and 1940, respectively. There are two columns, the one on the left headed "Events" and the one on the right headed "Inventions." March's initial Event is the "1630 Settlement of Massachusetts Bay Colony," and the first Invention is the "1634 Sawmill (first American), Maine."