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October 27, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary:“Leonardo to the Internet” by Thomas Misa

October 26, 2021April 17, 2022 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism..” by Daniel Headrick

July 13, 2021February 2, 2023 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Knowledge and Competitive Advantage” by Johann Peter Murmann

June 28, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “How Solar Energy Became Cheap” by Gregory Nemet

June 24, 2021November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America” by David Meyer

June 22, 2021December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective” by Robert Allen

May 11, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Alchemy of Air: … the Scientific Discovery that Fed the World” by Thomas Hager

May 7, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Power to the People: Energy in Europe over the Last Five Centuries” by Kander et al

May 6, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Energy Transitions” by Vaclav Smil

May 5, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Prime Movers of Globalization: The History of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines” by Vaclav Smil

May 4, 2020April 19, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil…” by Daniel Yergin

May 2, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Transforming the Twentieth Century” by Vaclav Smil

May 1, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Tools for the Job: A Short History of Machine Tools” by LTC Rolt

April 30, 2020December 27, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850” by Joel Mokyr

April 11, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Fifty Inventions that Shaped the Modern Economy” by Tim Harford

April 8, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Invisible Weapon: Telecommunications and International Politics 1851-1945” by Daniel Headrick

March 12, 2020April 12, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “How Carriers Fought: Carrier Operations in WWII” by Lars Celander

March 2, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Social Networks in the History of Innovation and Invention” by Francis Moon

February 18, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism 1850-1940” by Daniel R. Headrick

January 22, 2020December 2, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Learning by Doing” by James Bessen

January 1, 2020November 21, 2021 Michael Magoon

Book Summary: “Creating the Twentieth Century” by Vaclav Smil

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