I. Structure of the Course

• Two lectures, one preceptorial weekly.
• Three papers on topics to be suggested; two of about 1000 words each, due on 26 February and 9 April, and an essay about 2000 words in lieu of a final examination, due 21 May.

II. Books to be Purchased

• Alain Erlande-Brandenburg, Cathedrals and Castles: Building in the Middle Ages (H.N. Abrams)
• Ruth Schwartz Cowan, A Social History of American Technology (Oxford)
• Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray, Computer: A History of the Information Machine (HarperCollins)
• Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine (Avon)
• Albert Borgmann, Holding On to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn ofthe Millennium (Chicago)

There are some general resources for the course on the World Wide Web. Each week has a link to the sources pertinent to its topics.

III. Lectures and Assignments

	Week I (5 February) Lecture 1. Introduction  Lecture 2. The Technics of Simple and Compound Machines  Reading  Erlande-Brandenburg (begin) WWW Resources  | Background and Supplementary Reading
	Week II (12 February) Lecture 3. Mills and Manors  Lecture 4. Cathedrals and Towns  Reading  Erlande-Brandenburg (finish, with emphasis on documents for discussion in precept) Richard Holt, The Mills of Medieval England, Chaps. 3, 6  WWW Resources  | Background and Supplementary Reading
	Week III (19 February) Lecture 5. Power Machinery  Lecture 6. The Steam Engine  Reading Peter Laslett, The World We Have Lost, Chap. 1, "English Society Before and After the Coming of Industry"  Richard L. Hills, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Chaps. 2, 10, 11  WWW Resources  | Background and Supplementary Reading

	Week IV (26 February) Lecture 7. The Factory  Lecture 8. The Factory System  Reading  Richard Hills, Power in the Industrial Revolution, Chap. 12 J.T. Ward, The Factory System, Vol.I, 16-36, 59-75, Part 3  Anthony F.C. Wallace, Rockdale, Chapter IV  WWW Resources  | Background and Supplementary Reading
	Week V (5 March) Lecture 9. The New Industrial Worker  Lecture 10. Industrial Ideologies  Reading  Karl Marx, Capital, Vol.I, Chap.15 ("Machinery and Large-Scale Industry"), Sect. 1-5, 8  Charles Babbage, On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures, Chaps. 1, 8, 13, 19, 20  E.P. Thompson, "Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism", Past and Present 38(1960), 56-97  WWW Resources  | Background and Supplementary Reading
	Week VI (12 March) Lecture 11. The Machine in the Garden  Lecture 12. John H. Hall and the Origins of the "American System"  Reading Cowan, Chaps. 1-5 WWW Resources  | Background and Supplementary Reading

	Week VII (26 March) Lecture 13.The Machine in the Home  Lecture 14. Ford's Model T: A $500 Car  Reading Cowan, Chaps. 6-9 Nathan Rosenberg, "Technological Change in the Machine Tool Industry, 1840-1910", Journal of Economic History 23(1963), 414-443 [repr. in Rosenberg,Perspectives on Technology (Cambridge U.P., 1976), Chap.1] WWW Resources  | Background and Supplementary Reading
	Week VIII (2 April) Lecture 15. Highland Park and the Assembly Line  Lecture 16. Ford and the $5 Day  Reading Henry Ford, "Mass Production", Encyclopedia Britannica, 13th ed.  Picture tour of the Assembly Line Stephen Meyer III, The Five Dollar Day: Labor Management and Social Control in the Ford Motor Company, 1908-1921, pp. 9-121 WWW Resources  | Background and Supplementary Reading

	Week IX (9 April) Lecture 17. Taylorism and Fordism: Contrasts and Connections  Lecture 18. Mass Distribution: The Consumer Society  Reading:  Cowan, Chaps. 10, 12. Robert S. and Helen Lynd, Middletown, Chaps. 4-8, 13-14, 17-19, 27-29 WWW Resources  | Background and Supplementary Reading
	Week X (16 April) Lecture 19. From the Difference Engine to ENIAC  Lecture 20. From Boole to EDVAC  Reading Campbell-Kelly and Aspray, Chaps. 1-6 Borgmann, Chap. 12 WWW Resources  | Background and Supplementary Reading
	Week XI (23 April) Lecture 21. In our Own Image: Creating the Computer, 1945-95 Lecture 22. The Software Paradox  Reading  Campbell-Kelly and Aspray, Chap. 9 Kidder (entire) WWW Resources  | Background and Supplementary Reading
	Week XII (30 April) Lecture 23. Working Toward Choices  Lecture 24. Where Are We Now?  Reading  Campbell-Kelly and Aspray, Chaps. 10-12 Langdon Winner, "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" Daedalus(Winter, 1980), 121-136   Background and Supplementary Reading
	Reading Period Reading  Borgmann (entire) Background and Supplementary Reading