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Technology in History
Art: Lantern Slide - Cross-Section of Watt's Rotative Double-Acting…, Circa 1782 · Public domain
- Instructor
- Prof. Rosalind Williams
- Term
- Fall 2010
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 29 other files · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare STS.007 Technology in History, Fall 2010, Prof. Rosalind Williams — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Readings
10 files
- Lecture 1 · Introduction to class and key concepts · Reading notes Download
- Lecture 2 · Careful rereading of Marx, “Technology…” [DC], Chapters 6 and 7 Optional Williams, R… · Reading notes Download
- Lecture 6 · The Neolithic Revolution · Reading notes Download
- Lecture 9 · Civilizations and Empires (part two) · Reading notes Download
- Lecture 10 · Technohistorical Revolutions (part one) · Reading notes Download
- Lecture 11 · Technohistorical Revolutions (part two) · Reading notes Download
- Lecture 14 · The Industrial Revolution · Reading notes Download
- Lecture 15 · Visit to MIT Museum · Reading notes Download
- Lecture 17 · The Second Industrial Revolution (part two) · Reading notes Download
- Lecture 20 · From Industry to Battlefield Chemical Engineering at MIT · Reading notes Download
Lecture Notes
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- Lecture 2 · Notes Download
- Lecture 2 · Slides Download
- Lecture 3 · Notes Download
- Lecture 3 · Slides Download
- Lecture 4 · Notes Download
- Lecture 4 · Slides Download
- Lecture 6 · Notes Download
- Glossary Download
- Lecture 8 · Notes Download
- Lecture 12 · Notes Download
- Lecture 14 · Notes Download
- Lecture 14 · Slides Download
- Lecture 16 · Notes Download
- Lecture 16 · Slides Download
- Lecture 20 · Notes Download
- Lecture 20 · Slides Download
- Lecture 21 · Notes Download
- Lecture 25 · Looking Back and Beyond: Presentations and discussion on “what is the role of technology… · Files (Courtesy of MIT student. Used with permission.) Download
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Course outline
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Lecture 2: What is technology ? What is history (and prehistory )? (Visitor: Prof. Leo Marx)
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Lecture 3: Technology in prehistory: cave art
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Lecture 4: Technology in “prehistory”
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Lecture 5: Historical Analogies
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Lecture 6: The Neolithic Revolution
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Lecture 7: Introduction to MIT’s 150th anniversary: class visit to MIT archives
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Lecture 8: Discuss visit to Archives
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Lecture 9: Civilizations and Empires (part two)
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Lecture 10: Technohistorical Revolutions (part one)
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Lecture 11: Technohistorical Revolutions (part two)
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Lecture 12: Agrarian Civilizations (part one): megalithic agrarian civilizations
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Lecture 13: Agrarian Civilizations (part two): the Roman Empire as an agrarian civilization
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Lecture 14: The Industrial Revolution
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Lecture 15: Visit to MIT Museum
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Lecture 16: The Second Industrial Revolution (part one)
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Lecture 17: The Second Industrial Revolution (part two)
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Lecture 18: The Second Industrial Revolution (part three)
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Lecture 19: The Second Industrial Revolution (part four)
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Lecture 20: From Industry to Battlefield Chemical Engineering at MIT
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Lecture 21: Ground Zero (part one)
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Lecture 22: Ground Zero (part two)
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Lecture 23: Looking Back and Beyond: General review of MIT 150
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Lecture 24: Looking Back and Beyond: Presentations and discussion on “what is the role of technology in history?”
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Lecture 25: Looking Back and Beyond: Presentations and discussion on “what is the role of technology in history?” (cont.)
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Rosalind Williams, STS.007 Technology in History, Fall 2010.
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