Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Technology

Absorbent Materials

Activated Carbon

Adhesives

Agriculture and Food

Air Conditioning

Air Traffic Control Systems

Aircraft Carriers

Aircraft Design

Aircraft Instrumentation

Alloys, Light and Ferrous

Alloys, Magnetic

Analgesics

Anesthetics

Angiography

Antibacterial Chemotherapy

Antibiotics, Developments through 1945

Antibiotics: Use after 1945

Artificial Insemination and In Vitro Fertilization (Farming)

Artificial Intelligence

Audio Recording, Compact Disk

Audio Recording, Electronic Methods

Audio Recording, Mechanical

Audio Recording, Stereophonic and Surround Sound

Audio Recording, Tape

Audio Recording, Wire

Audio Systems

Audiology, Hearing Aids

Audiology, Implants and Surgery

Audiology, Testing

Automobiles

Automobiles, Electric

Automobiles, Hybrid

Automobiles, Internal Combustion

Batteries, Primary and Secondary

Battleships

Biomass Power Generation

Biopolymers

Biotechnology

Blood Transfusion and Blood Products

Boranes

Breeding, Animal: Genetic Methods

Breeding, Plant: Genetic Methods

Bridges, Concrete

Bridges, Long Span and Suspension

Bridges, Steel

Building Acoustics

Buildings, Designs for Energy Conservation

Buildings, Prefabricated

Calculators, Electronic

Calculators, Mechanical and Electromechanical

Cameras, 35 mm

Cameras, Automatic

Cameras, Digital

Cameras, Disposable

Cameras, Lens Designs: Wide Angle and Zoom

Cameras, Polaroid

Cameras, Single Lens Reflex (SLR)

Cancer, Chemotherapy

Cancer, Radiation Therapy

Cancer, Surgical Techniques

Cardiovascular Disease, Pharmaceutical Treatment

Cardiovascular Surgery, Pacemakers and Heart Valves

Catamarans

Ceramic Materials

Changing Nature of Work

Chemical Process Engineering

Chemicals

Chromatography

Civil Aircraft, Jet Driven

Civil Aircraft, Propeller Driven

Civil Aircraft, Supersonic

Cleaning: Chemicals and Vacuum Cleaners

Clocks and Watches, Quartz

Clocks, Atomic

Cloning, Testing and Treatment Methods

Coatings, Pigments and Paints

Color Photography

Combinatorial Chemistry

Communications

Composite Materials

Computer and Video Games

Computer Displays

Computer Memory, Early

Computer Memory, Personal Computers

Computer Modeling

Computer Networks

Computer Science

Computer-Aided Design and Manufacture

Computers, Analog

Computers, Early Digital

Computers, Hybrid

Computers, Mainframe

Computers, Personal

Computers, Supercomputers

Computers, Uses and Consequences

Computer–User Interface

Concrete, Reinforced

Concrete Shells

Constructed World

Construction Equipment

Contraception, Hormonal Methods and Surgery

Contraception, Physical and Chemical Methods

Control Technology, Computer-Aided

Control Technology, Electronic Signals

Cracking

Crop Protection, Spraying

Cryogenics, Applications

Cryogenics, Liquefaction of Gases

Crystals, Synthetic

Dairy Farming

Dams

Dentistry

Detergents

Diabetes Mellitus

Diagnostic Screening

Dialysis

Dirigibles

Dishwashers

Domestic Heating

Dyes

Electric Motors

Electrical Energy Generation and Supply, Large Scale

Electrical Power Distribution

Electricity Generation and the Environment

Electrocardiogram (ECG)

Electrochemistry

Electroencephalogram (EEG)

Electronic Communications

Electronics

Electrophoresis

Encryption and Code Breaking

Energy and Power

Engineering: Cultural, Methodological, and Definitional Issues

Engineering: Production and Economic Growth

Entertainment in the Home

Environmental Monitoring

Error Checking and Correction

Experimental Stress Analysis

Explosives, Commercial

Farming, Agricultural Methods

Farming, Growth Promotion

Farming, Mechanization

Fax Machine

Feedstocks

Fertility, Human

Fertilizers

Fibers, Synthetic and Semi-Synthetic

Film and Cinema, Early Sound Films

Film and Cinema: High Fidelity to Surround Sound

Film and Cinema: Sets and Techniques

Film and Cinema: Widescreen Systems

Fire Engineering

Fish Farming

Fission and Fusion Bombs

Fly-by-Wire Systems

Foods Additives and Substitutes

Food Preparation and Cooking

Food Preservation: Cooling and Freezing

Food Preservation: Freeze-Drying, Irradiation, and Vacuum Packing

Food, Processed and Fast

Fossil Fuel Power Stations

Fuel Cells

Gender and Technology

Gene Therapy

Genetic Engineering, Applications

Genetic Engineering, Methods

Genetic Screening and Testing

Global Positioning System (GPS)

Globalization

Green Chemistry

Gyrocompass and Inertial Guidance

Hall Effect Devices

Health

Hearts, Artificial

Helicopters

Hematology

Highways

Histology

Hormone Therapy

Hovercraft, Hydrofoils, and Hydroplanes

Hydroelectric Power Generation

Iconoscope

Immunological Technology

Implants, Joints, and Stents

Industrial Gases

Information Theory

Infrared Detectors

Integrated Circuits, Design and Use

Integrated Circuits, Fabrication

Intensive Care and Life Support

Internal Combustion Piston Engine

Internet

Iron and Steel Manufacture

Irrigation Systems

Isotopic Analysis

Josephson Junction Devices

Lasers, Applications

Lasers in Optoelectronics

Lasers, Theory and Operation

Laundry Machines and Chemicals

Light Emitting Diodes

Lighting, Public and Private

Lighting Techniques

Liquid Crystals

Loudspeakers and Earphones

Mass Spectrometry

Materials and Industrial Processes

Medicine

Methods in the History of Technology

Microscopy, Electron Scanning

Microscopy, Electron Transmission

Microscopy, Optical

Microwave Ovens

Military versus Civil Technologies

Missiles, Air-to-Air

Missiles, Air-to-Surface

Missiles, Defensive

Missiles, Long Range and Ballistic

Missiles, Long Range and Cruise

Missiles, Short Range and Guided

Missiles, Surface-to-Air and Anti-Ballistic Missiles

Mobile (Cell) Telephones

Motorcycles

Nanotechnology, Materials and Applications

Neurology

Nitrogen Fixation

Nuclear Fuels

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Nuclear Reactor Materials

Nuclear Reactors: Fast Breeders

Nuclear Reactors: Fusion, Early Designs

Nuclear Reactors: Fusion, Later Designs (Tokamak)

Nuclear Reactors: Thermal, Graphite-Moderated

Nuclear Reactors: Thermal, Water-Moderated

Nuclear Reactors, Weapons Material

Nuclear Waste Processing and Storage

Oil from Coal Process

Oil Rigs

Ophthalmology

Optical Amplifiers

Optical Materials

Optoelectronics, Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing

Optoelectronics, Frequency Changing

Optometry

Organ Transplantation

Organization of Technology and Science

Packet Switching

Particle Accelerators: Cyclotrons, Synchrotrons, and Colliders

Particle Accelerators, Linear

Personal Stereo

Pest Control, Biological

Pesticides

Photocopiers

Photosensitive Detectors

Plastics, Thermoplastics

Plastics, Thermosetting

Positron Emission Tomography

Power Generation, Recycling

Power Tools and Hand-Held Tools

Presentation of Technology

Printers

Processors for Computers

Prospecting, Minerals

Psychiatry, Diagnosis and Non-Drug Treatment

Psychiatry, Pharmaceutical Treatment

Quantum Electronic Devices

Radar aboard Aircraft

Radar, Defensive Systems in World War II

Radar, Displays

Radar, High Frequency and High Power

Radar, Long-Range Early Warning Systems

Radar, Origins to 1939

Radio: AM, FM, Analog, Digital

Radio, Early Transmissions

Radio Receivers, Coherers and Magnetic Methods

Radio Receivers, Crystal Detectors and Receivers

Radio Receivers, Early

Radio Receivers, Valve and Transistor Circuits

Radio Transmitters, Continuous Wave

Radio Transmitters, Early

Radioactive Dating

Radio-Frequency Electronics

Radionavigation

Rail, Diesel, and Diesel-Electric Locomotives

Rail, Electric Locomotives

Rail, High Speed

Rail, Steam Locomotives

Railway Mechanics

Rectifiers

Refrigeration, Absorption

Refrigeration, Mechanical

Refrigeration, Thermoelectricity

Reppe Chemistry

Research and Development in the Twentieth Century

Rocket Planes

Rocket Propulsion, Liquid Propellant

Rocket Propulsion, Solid Propellant

Satellites, Communications

Satellites, Environmental Sensing

Semiconductors, Compound

Semiconductors, Crystal Growing and Purification

Semiconductors, Elemental

Semiconductors, Postband Theory

Semiconductors, Preband Theory

Ships, Bulk Carriers and Tankers

Skyscrapers

Smart and Biomimetic Materials

Social and Political Determinants of Technological Change

Software Application Programs

Software Engineering

Solar Power Generation

Solvents

Sonar

Space

Space Exploration, Fly-Past

Space Exploration, Manned Orbiters

Space Exploration, Moon, Manned

Space Exploration, Moon, Unmanned

Space Exploration, Planetary Landers

Space Exploration, Unmanned

Space Launch Vehicles

Space Shuttle

Space Stations, International Space Station

Space Stations, Mir

Space Stations, Skylab

Spectroscopy and Spectrochemistry, Visible and Ultraviolet

Spectroscopy, Infrared

Spectroscopy, Raman

Spectroscopy, X-Ray Fluorescence

Sports Science and Technology

Sputniks

Strobe Flashes

Submarines, Military

Submersibles

Superconductivity, Applications

Superconductivity, Discovery

Surgery, Plastic and Reconstructive

Synthetic Foods, Mycoprotein and Hydrogenated Fats

Synthetic Resins

Synthetic Rubber

Systems Programs

Tanks

Technology and Ethics

Technology and Leisure

Technology, Arts and Entertainment

Technology, Society, and the Environment

Telecommunications

Telephony, Automatic Systems

Telephony, Digital

Telephony, Long Distance

Telescopes, Computer-Controlled Mirrors

Telescopes, Ground

Telescopes, Radio

Telescopes, Space

Television, Beginning Ideas (late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century)

Television, Cable and Satellite

Television, Color, Electromechanical

Television: Color, Electronic

Television, Digital and High-Definition Systems

Television, Electromechanical Systems

Television Recording, Disk

Television Recording, Tape

Thin Film Materials and Technology

Timber Engineering

Tissue Culturing

Tomography in Medicine

Transistors

Transport

Transport, Foodstuffs

Transport, Human Power

Traveling Wave Tubes

Tunnels and Tunneling

Turbines, Gas

Turbines: Gas, in Aircraft

Turbines: Gas, in Land Vehicles

Turbines, Steam

Ultracentrifuge

Ultrasonography in Medicine

Urban Transportation

Valves/Vacuum Tubes

Vertical Transportation (Elevators)

Vitamins

Warfare

Warfare, Biological

Warfare, Chemical

Warfare, High-Explosive Shells and Bombs

Warplanes, Bombers

Warplanes, Fighters and Fighter Bombers

Warplanes, Reconnaissance

Wind Power Generation

World Wide Web

Wright Flyers

X-Ray Crystallography

X-Rays in Diagnostic Medicine