<i>A Companion to American Technology</i> is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that analyze the hard-to-define phenomenon of “technology” in America. <ul><li>22 original essays by expert scholars cover the most important features of American technology, including developments in automobiles, television, and computing<li>Analyzes the ways in which technologies are organized, such as in the engineering profession, government, medicine and agriculture<li>Includes discussions of how technologies interact with race, gender, class, and other organizing structures in American society</ul>