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Taking a wide-ranging look at factual (and fictional) technology, Millard views the James Bond universe as evidence for popular perceptions of technological development as both inevitably progressive and apocalyptically threatening.

Excerpt from Historic Furnishings Report, Vol. 1: Edison Laboratory, Edison National Historic Site, West Orange, New Jersey, Historical Data and Furnishing PlanWalter H. Miller William Bill Hayes George Werner F. C. Burt Walter Dinwiddie Adolph Gall Sam Moore Thomas Edison, Jr. (53) Building 5, First Floor Charles Batchelor Miller Reese Hutchison (54) Building Library Thomas Edison Charles Edison Alfred O. Tate John Randolph George Meister Wil...

Excerpt from Historic Furnishings Report, Vol. 1: Edison Laboratory, Edison National Historic Site, West Orange, New Jersey, Historical Data and Furnishing PlanWalter H. Miller William Bill Hayes George Werner F. C. Burt Walter Dinwiddie Adolph Gall Sam Moore Thomas Edison, Jr. (53) Building 5, First Floor Charles Batchelor Miller Reese Hutchison (54) Building Library Thomas Edison Charles Edison Alfred O. Tate John Randolph George Meister Wil...

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Refreshing and insightful, Beatlemania offers a deeper understanding the days of the Fab Four and the band's long-term effects on the business and culture of pop music.

A history of sound recording from the nineteenth to the twenty first century.

Exploring the band's skill and its influence on music and society in the United States, Britain, and the rest of the world, this title offers a deeper understanding the days of the Fab Four and the band's long-term effects on the business and culture of pop music.

This is the story of the "other" Thomas Edison -- not the heroic lone inventor, but Edison the businessman, industrialist, and successful manager of one of the world's largest industrial research laboratories. Tracing his career from his boyhood to his death in 1931, Edison and the Business of Innovation reveals Edison to be an entrepreneur of extraordinary vision. From extensive research in the Edison archives at West Orange, New Jersey, Andr...

A history of sound recording from the nineteenth to the twenty first century, first published in 2006.

Since the guitar was first electrified in the 1930s, it has become an American icon and has transformed the soundtrack of our lives with its wide range of sounds -- from seductive twang to howling distortion. Relatively inexpensive, easy to learn, and fun to play, the electric guitar is a truly democratic instrument. Millions have purchased Rickenbackers, Gibsons, Fenders, and other brands of guitars over the decades, fueling daydreams of fame...

This exploration of rock ¿n¿ roll music and culture in Birmingham, Alabama, is based on the oral histories of musicians, their fans and professionals in the popular music industry. Collected over a twenty-year period, their stories describe the coming of rock ¿n¿ roll in the 1950s, the rise of the garage bands in the 1960s, of southern rock in the 1970s, and of alternative music in the 1980s and 1990s. Told in the words of the musicians themse...