Encyclopedia of 20th Century Technology

(List is not final and is subject to change prior to publication.)

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A
Absorbent Materials
Activated Carbon
Adhesives
Agriculture and Food
Air Conditioning
Air Traffic Control Systems
Aircraft Carriers
Aircraft Design:
    Biplane and externally-braced wings
    Streamlined monoplanes
    Transonic
    Supersonic and hypersonic
Aircraft Instrumentation
Alloys, Light and Ferrous
Alloys, Magnetic
Analgesics
Anesthetics
Angiography
Antibacterial Chemotherapy
Antibiotics, Developments through 1945
Antibiotics, Use after 1945
Artificial Insemmination and in vitro Fertilization
Artificial Intelligence
Audio Recording, Compact Disc
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

B
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

C
Calculators, Electronic
Calculators, Mechanical and Electromechanical
Cameras, 35mm
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

D
Dairy Farming
Dams
Dentistry
Detergents
Diabetes Mellitus
Diagnostic Screening
Dialysis
Dirigibles
Dishwashers
Domestic Heating
Dyes

E
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

F
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: Wide Screen Systems
Fire Engineering
Fish Farming
Fission and Fusion Bombs
Fly-by-Wire Systems
Food 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

G
Gender and Technology
Gene Therapy
Genetic Engineering, Applications
Genetic Engineering, Methods
Genetic Screening and Testing
Global Positioning System (GPS)
Globalization
Green Chemistry
Gyro-compass and Inertial Guidance

H
Hall Effect Devices
Health
Hearts, Artificial
Helicopters
Hematology
Highways
Histology
Hormone Therapy
Hovercraft, Hydrofoils, and Hydroplanes
Hydroelectric Power Generation

I
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

J
Josephson Junction Devices

L
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

M
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
Mobile (Cell) Telephones
Motorcycles

N
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
Nuclear Reactors: Thermal, Graphite Moderated
Nuclear Reactors: Thermal, Water Moderated
Nuclear Reactors: Weapons Material
Nuclear Waste Processing and Storage

O
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

P
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 (PET)
Power Generation, Recycling
Power Tools and Hand-held Tools
Presentation of Technology
Printers
Processors for Computers
Prospecting, Minerals
Psychiatry, Diagnosis and Non-drug Treatments
Psychiatry, Pharmaceutical Treatment

Q
Quantum Electronic Devices

R
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, and 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 20th Century
Rocket Planes
Rocket Propulsion, Liquid Propellant
Rocket Propulsion, Solid Propellant

S
Satellites, Communications
Satellites, Environmental Sensing
Semiconductors, Compound
Semiconductors, Crystal Growing and Purification
Semiconductors, Elemental
Semiconductors, Post-band Theory
Semiconductors, Pre-band 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

T
Tanks
Technology and Ethics
Technology and Leisure
Technology, Arts and Entertainment
Technology, Society and the Environment
Telecommunications
Telephony, Long Distance
Telephony, Automatic Systems
Telephony, Digital
Telescopes, Computer-controlled Mirrors
Telescopes, Ground
Telescopes, Radio
Telescopes, Space
Television, Beginning Ideas (late 19th and early 20th century)
Television, Cable and Satellite
Television: Color, Electromechanical
Television: Color, Electronic
Television, Digital and High Definition Systems
Television, Electromechanical Systems
Television Recording, Disc
Television Recording, Tape
Thin Film Materials and Technology
Timber Engineering
Tissue Culturing
Tomography in Medicine
Transistors
Transport
Transport, Foodstuffs
Transport, Human Power
Travelling Wave Tubes
Tunnels and Tunneling
Turbines, Gas
Turbines: Gas, in Aircraft
Turbines: Gas, in Land Vehicles
Turbines, Steam

U
Ultracentrifuges
Ultrasonography in Medicine
Urban Transportation

V
Vacuum Tubes/Valves
Vertical Transportation
Vitamins, Isolation and Synthesis

W
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
X-ray Crystallography
X-rays in Diagnostic Medicine

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