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Discovering the New Technological World

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Nye David E., American Technological Sublime (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994) p. 43.
2.
Holley M., Josiah Allen’s Wife as a P.A. and P.I.: Samantha at the Centennial. Quoted in John F. Kasson, Civilizing the Machine: Technology and Republican Values in America, 1776–1900 (New York: Penguin, 1976) p. 164.
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Hughes Thomas P., “Introduction,” Changing Attitudes toward American Technology (New York: Harper and Row, 1975) p. 9.
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Kasson John F., Civilizing the Machine: Technology and Republican Values in America, 1776–1900.
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