| Not sure if this is helpful, but a friend fed this conversation through ChatGPT and had it summarize for easier reading: -The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy -Bigger by Marc Levinson -The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production-- Toyota's Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Industry by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos -Empires of the Sky: Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men's Epic Duel to Rule the World by Erik Larson -Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America by Richard -White -The Arms of Krupp: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty that Armed Germany at War by William Manchester -Edison by Edmund Morris -Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow -The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century by Steven Watts -Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler -The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage -The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick -Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age by Michael S. Malone -The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester -The Innovators by Walter Isaacson -Medieval Technology and Social Change by Lynn White Jr. -The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner -Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Study of Early Modern Physics by Eric H. Chaney -Early Electrical Communication by A. F. Marland -Bibliographical History of Electricity and Magnetism by Silvanus P. Thompson -Electric Science: Its History, Phenomena, and Applications by J. J. Fahie -The History and Present State of Electricity by Andrew Ure -https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ -De Re Metallica by Georgius Agricola |