Leonardo to the Internet : technology & culture from the Renaissance to the present / Thomas J. Misa.

Baltimore [Md.] : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

xxii, 378 pages : illustrations, 1 map, portraits, facsimiles ; 23 cm.

2nd ed.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Technologies of the court, 1450-1600 -- Techniques of commerce, 1588-1740 -- Geographies of industry, 1740-1851 -- Instruments of empire, 1840-1914 -- Science and systems, 1870-1930 -- Materials of modernism, 1900-1950 -- The means of destruction, 1936-1990 -- Toward global culture, 1970-2001 -- Paths to insecurity -- The question of technology.