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MIT OpenCourseWare
Introduction to the History of Technology
- Instructor
- Prof. David Mindell
- Term
- Fall 2006
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 reading · 6 other files · 2 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare STS.340J Introduction to the History of Technology, Fall 2006, Prof. David Mindell — 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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Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
What's here, and what isn't
- A lecture sequence of 13 items is confirmed. It stays as organized materials rather than a full course order.
Not included here
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Materials by section
Grouped by section, as MIT organized them. Not sequenced or ordered.
Assignments
- Review of Hoddeson & Riordan’s Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age Download
- Modernist Visions: Reviews of Hughes’ American Genesis and Wohl’s A Passion for Wings Download
- Computing: Review of Black’s IBM and the Holocaust Download
- Review of Kern’s The Culture of Time and Space Download
- Review of Fritzsche’s A Nation of Fliers Download
- Review of Waldrop’s The Dream Machine Download
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Geography and Systems I: Manufacturing and Distribution
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Lecture 3: Geography and Systems II: Landscape and Technology
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Lecture 4: Manufacturing
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Lecture 5: Human and Machine I: War Machines
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Lecture 6: Human and Machine II: Modernist Cybernetics
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Lecture 7: Biography
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Lecture 8: Modernist Visions
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Lecture 9: Human and Machine IV: Gender, Sex and the Body
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Lecture 10: Technology and Representation I
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Lecture 11: Technology and Representation II: Computing
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Lecture 12: In-class Film Viewing: Architecture of Doom
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Lecture 13: Wrap-up Discussion
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. David Mindell, STS.340J Introduction to the History of Technology, Fall 2006.
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