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Advertising, 7, 69, 107, 140, 151–52, 153, 235
Aerodynamics, 36
Airbus, 30
Air-conditioning, 2, 3, 62, 76–84, 77, 78, 81, 82, 236
demographic impacts of, 3, 6, 8, 49–50, 80–84
science behind invention of, 64–65
Alexandria, Lighthouse of, 118
Allen, William F., 182–83
American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T), 100–102, 107
American Woman’s Home, The (Stowe and Beecher), 138
Amplification, see Sound amplification
impact on public speeches of, 8
Amsterdam, 127
Analytical Engine, 245, 248, 249, 252
Ankhesenamun, 199
Apalachicola (Florida), 62
Archimedes, 198
air-conditioning and, 66
for icehouses, 53
See also Skyscrapers
Arcy-sur-Cure caves, 87–90, 89, 120, 122
Aristotle, 25
Ark of the Covenant, 216
Army, U.S., Signal Corps, 104
Ashenburg, Katherine, 138
Astronomy, 38, 41, 170, 184, 187
See also Observatories; Telescopes
Atomic clocks, 186–88
Automobiles, 74, 92, 133, 185, 229
impact on settlement patterns of, 80
Babbage, Charles, 185, 245–46, 247, 248, 250–53
Babylonians, 198
Baliani, Giovanni Battista, 166
Baltimore, 180
Bangkok, 83
Barovier, Angelo, 19
Basker, Emek, 233–34
Batchelor, Charles, 211
Bathing suits, women’s, 149–50
Beatles, 114
Beecher, Catharine, 138
Bell, Alexander Graham, 9, 94, 97–98, 98, 103
Bell Labs, 30, 100–105, 107, 108, 113, 114, 116, 184, 211, 232
Bering Land Bridge, 191
Berlin Jazz Festival, 112–13
Best Buy, 234
Betamax, 7
Bible, 25
Old Testament, 216
Biden, Joe, 83
Big Bang, 40
Birdseye, Clarence, 72, 73, 74–75, 84
Birmingham (England), 174
Black Friday stock market crash, 74
B&O Railroad, 182
ice shipped from, 48–52, 54, 57
Water Works in, 130
Boston Gazette, 49
Boulders, The (Las Vegas), 228
Boyle, Robert, 64
Boys, Charles Vernon, 27, 28, 29
Brand, Steward, 192
Briggs House (Chicago), 133
Broad Exchange (New York), 100
Brown, Denis Scott, 226, 229–31
Brunelleschi, Filippo, 32
Brush Electric Light, 214
Buckley, O. E., 104–5
Butterfly effect, 5
Byron, Annabella, 242, 244, 245
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 241, 242, 244, 245
Calcutta, 55
California, 83
Candles, 19, 20, 198, 200–201, 204, 205, 217
Cape Town, 128
Carbon dating, 190–92
Carré, Ferdinand, 66–67
Carrier, Willis, 76–80, 82, 83
Carrier Corporation, 76, 77, 79
Cattle ranching, 58
Cave paintings, 87–90, 89, 120, 122
Celsius scale, 64
Cell phones, 31, 100, 102, 189–90, 194
Central Council for Health Education, 139
Central time zone, 183
Cesium, 186–87, 189, 190, 192, 194
Charleston (South Carolina), 55
Chauvet cave paintings, 87
Chennai, 83
Chesbrough, Ellis, 127, 130, 131, 132, 134, 154, 160
Chicago, 57–61, 106, 127–30, 132, 133, 134–36, 154
African-Americans in, 110
Board of Sewerage Commissioners of, 129–30
Chicxulub asteroid, 197
Great Wall of, 231
Chlorination of water supply, 143–44, 148–50
Chlorine bleach, 151
Chlorine Revolution, The (McGuire), 144
Cholera, 3, 129, 140–41, 141, 143, 145, 147, 158
Cincinnati, 182
City of the Century (Miller), 58–60
City Noise, 117
Civil rights movement, 9, 82, 112–14, 231
Civil War, 66–67, 143, 179, 251
Clark, A. B., 103
Claude, Georges, 226–28, 230, 231
Clocks, 166–68
atomic, 186–88
digital, 42
pendulum, 6, 170, 171, 176, 184, 185
Columbus, Christopher, 168
Comets, 43
Computers, 29–30, 38–39, 42, 100, 158, 161, 236, 254
graphic interfaces of, 65
for inventory management, 234
nineteenth-century precursor of, 245–46, 248, 249, 250, 252
time measurement and, 185, 192
waveforms converted to sound by, 96
See also Microchips; Microprocessors
Congress, U.S., 6
Constantinople, fall of, 10, 14, 17
Contested Waters (Wiltse), 149
Copernican universe, 186
Corning Glassworks, 30
Cotton Club (Harlem), 110, 118
Craigslist, 7
Cretaceous age, 3
Crystals, 190
silicon dioxide, 13 (see also Glass)
Cuba, 210–11
Curie, Jacques, 184
Curie, Marie, 190
Cutler, David, 148
Daguerreotypes, 217
Dark Ages, 198
Darwinism, 3
Davy, Humphry, 206
Decibels, 114–15
De Forest, Lee, 106–8, 109, 110, 113, 116, 117
De Landa, Manuel, 1–2
Democratic Party, 81–83
De Moleyns, Frederick, 20
Dennison, Aaron, 176, 177, 178, 180, 181
Descartes, René, 41
Dialectical materialism, 40
Dickens, Charles, 138, 175, 220
Disease, 62, 129, 134, 154, 211
bathing seen as cause of, 137
Civil War deaths from, 143
germ theory of, 136, 140, 142, 152, 156, 158
waterborne, 148 (see also Cholera)
Draggoo, Vaughn, 237
Dreiser, Theodor, 60
Dubai, 83
DVDs, 7
Eastern time zone, 183
Edgartown (Massachusetts), 202
Edison, Thomas Alva, 9, 100, 149, 207
development of lightbulb by, 206, 208–12, 213, 215, 218, 250
phonograph invented by, 92, 97, 252
Edison Electric Light Company, 212
Egypt, ancient, 14, 164, 199, 216–17
Einstein, Albert, 189
Ekirch, Roger, 200
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 138
Ellington, Duke, 110, 111, 112, 118
Greenwich Mean Time in, 182
industrial revolution in, 172–74
Longitude Prize in, 168
in World War I, 120
See also London
Enlightenment, 90
Eno, Brian, 192
Erie Canal, 60
Essex (ship), 202
Etruscans, ancient, 165
Eyeglasses, see Spectacles
for neon lights, 230
time measurement and, 185
See also Mills
Fahrenheit scale, 65
Feaster, Patrick, 96
Federal-Aid Highway Act (1956), 6
Fessenden, Reginald, 119–20, 121, 122
Feynman, Richard, 9–10
Fielding, Henry, 241
Fisheries Association, 72
Fitzgerald, Ella, 112
Five Points (Manhattan), 220, 223, 225
Flash Gordon (comic strip, movies and television series), 232, 234
Flatiron Building (New York), 100
Fletcher, Henry, 114
Florence Baptistry, 32
Ford Motor Company, Rouge Plant, 175
France, 67, 87–88, 90, 118, 137, 217, 228
See also Paris
Franchise businesses, 228, 230
Franklin, Benjamin, 201–2
Frigidaire, 76
Frozen food, 72, 73, 74–76, 75, 84
naturally occurring, in Labrador, 68, 70, 71, 253
Fuller, George Warren, 144
pendulum clock invented by, 164–66, 168, 169, 170, 171, 184, 190, 194
García Márquez, Gabriel, 50
Gardiner, Robert, 48
Gates, Bill and Melinda, Foundation, 156, 157
General Conference on Weights and Measures (Paris, 1967), 163–64, 187
General Electric, 69
General Foods, 74
General Seafood, 74
Geochemistry, 43
Georgia, 67
Germ theory, 136, 140, 142, 152, 156, 158
Giovannoni, David, 96
Glasses, see Spectacles
Glassmaking, 14, 17–19, 42, 184
See also Lenses; Mirrors; Silicon dioxide
Global trade, 46, 60, 170, 172
Gould, Gordon, 232
GPS (Global Positioning System), 189
Great Pyramid of Giza, 216–17
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), 182, 183
Gutenberg, Johannes, 4, 6, 20, 22, 25, 32
Half-life, 190
Hamburg, 127
Hard Times (Dickens), 175
Harper’s Weekly, 220
Heisenberg, Werner, 186
Hendrix, Jimi, 115
Hennessey, Meagan, 96
Hillis, Danny, 192
Hitler, Adolf, 114
Holiday, Billie, 112
Hollywood, 150
Homo sapiens, 191
evolution of, 40
Hooke, Robert, 22–23,
illustration by, 24
microscope designed by, 26
Hoover Dam, 228
Houston, 80
How Congress Evolves (Polsby), 81
How the Other Half Lives (Riis), 223
Hughes Aircraft, 232
Hurricanes, 62
Hussey, Captain, 201
Hutchinson, Benjamin, 58
See also Bathing; Public health
Ice Age, 60
“Ice House Diary” (Tudor), 48–49
Ice trade, 45–46, 48–57, 61–62, 84–85, 167, 253
climate and disruptions of, 57, 62, 65
failure of early attempts at, 49–52
Idea Factory, The (Gertner), 100
to warmer climates, air-conditioning and, 80, 83
Indiana, 180
Industrial revolution, 6, 42, 61, 170, 172–75
Innovation, “genius” theory of, 205
Instagram, 31
Irvin Theatre, 81
iTunes, 250
Jack the Ripper, 134
Jacquard loom, 2
Jakarta, 83
Janssen, Hans, 22
Jersey City, water supply of, 143–46, 150, 156, 158
Jungle, The (Sinclair), 134–35
Jupiter, moons of, 25
Justice Department, U.S., 102
Karachi, 83
Kauffman, Stuart, 64
Keck Observatory, 38–40, 39, 89
Kelly, Kevin, 192–93
Kentucky Fried Chicken, 228
Khufu, 216
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 112–13
“I Have a Dream” speech, 114, 231
Koch, Robert, 141–42
Kramers, Jan, 43
Kruesi, John, 211
Lagos, 83
Lancet, The, 140
Lasers, 30, 38–39, 100, 158, 232–37
Latitude, 168
Lawrence Livermore Labs, 235
Leal, John, 142–46, 148, 150, 151, 154, 156, 158, 160
Learning from Las Vegas (Brown and Venturi), 230, 231
Led Zeppelin, 115
Lenses, 2, 6, 8, 10, 30, 31, 41, 156, 251
lasers and, 235
of spectacles, 2, 4, 20, 22, 27
Leonardo da Vinci, 31, 34, 252
Lightbulbs, 2, 8, 41, 103, 198, 200–201, 205–15, 218, 228
lasers and, 232–33
neon, see Neon lights
Lighthouses, 118
Live Aid, 114
Liverpool, 110
London, 83, 104, 127, 134, 138, 152, 154, 181, 241, 246
Clockmakers’ Museum in, 173
Long Now Foundation, 192–93
Los Angeles, South Central, 110
Louis XIII, King of France, 138
Louisiana, 67
Lovelace, Augusta Ada Byron, Countess of, 241–42, 243, 244–46, 248, 250–52, 255
Lovelace, William King, Earl of 241–42
Macintosh computers, 254
Madagascar (ship), 45
Madras, 55
Magna Carta, 2
Malaria, 62
Manila, 83
Marconi, Guglielmo, 106
Mariana, Queen of Spain, 32
Marrison, W. A., 184
Martin, Richard, 96
Marxism, 40
Materialism, 40
McDonald’s, 228
McGuire, Michael J., 144
McLuhan, Marshall, 20
Meatpacking industry, 58–59
freezing and, 74
refrigeration and, 65
Medici family, 37
Melville, Herman, 202
Memphis, 110
Meninas, Las (Velázquez), 32, 33, 34
Menlo Park, Edison’s lab at, 100, 206, 210–11
Metric system, 217
Metropolitan Opera (New York), 107
Michigan, 180
Microchips, 42, 80, 158–60, 185
Micrographia (Hooke), 22–23, 24
Microns, 158
amplified speakers and, 113–14, 116
Microprocessors, 100, 158, 185
Microscopes, 5, 26, 50, 70, 80, 172, 250
Middle Ages, 137
Miller, Donald, 58–60
Miller, Grant, 148
lumber, 52
See also Factories
lasers and, 235
Renaissance paintings and, 33, 34
in science fiction, 231
in telescopes, 38–40
Moby-Dick (Melville), 202
Moon landing, 231
Moore, William, 211
Mosquitoes, 62
Mountain time zone, 183
Muckraking, 60, 134, 215, 218, 223
Mumbai, 154
Mumford, Lewis, 34–35
Murano, 17–19, 18, 27, 32, 184, 251
Murray, Annie, 151
Nantucket (Massachusetts), 201, 202
Napster, 105
National Association of Broadcasters, 110
National Ignition Facility (NIF), 235–38, 237
See also Shipping
Neanderthals, 87, 88, 90, 118, 122
Nevada, 191
New Jersey, 206
New York City, 58, 67, 72, 74, 77, 83, 127, 152, 154, 209, 218
artificial light in, 206, 214, 214–15
Metropolitan Opera, 107
Noise Abatement Society, 114
skyscrapers in, 99–100
subways, 133
Times Square, 229
World’s Fair in, 79
New York State, 72
Tenement House Act (1901), 223
NeXT computer, 254
Noise abatement, 114–15
Nordhaus, William D., 204–5
Nundinal calendar, 165
Oakland (California), 151
Obama, Barack, 83
Observatories, 38–39, 164, 183
Odorono antiperspirant, 151
Ogden, William Butler, 128
Oil lamp, 199
On the Origin of Species (Darwin), 4, 253
One Hundred Years of Solitude (García Márquez), 50
On the Various Contrivances by Which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects, and the Good Effects of Intercrossing (Darwin), 253
Pacific time zone, 183
Paleolithic era, 88
Palmolive soap, 151
Paris, 66, 83, 87, 127, 133, 138, 152, 163, 190, 226
Academy of Sciences, 96
chandlers in, 198
Grand Palais, 228
University of, 88
Pasteur, Louis, 142
Patents, 25, 102, 107, 148, 215
of laser, 232
of lightbulb, 206
of neon lights, 228
Pendulums, 6, 166, 170, 171, 176, 184, 185
Petroleum, 203–4
Philadelphia, 58
Philip III, King of Spain, 168
Philip IV, King of Spain, 32
Phonautograph, 92, 93, 94, 95–97, 118, 253
Phonograph, 92, 97–98, 205, 206, 252
flash (Blitzlicht), 218, 222, 224, 225
of tenement conditions, 218, 222–26, 224
experimental, 27
Pierce, John, 232
Piezoelectricity, 184–85
Pisa, Duomo of, 164–66, 167, 190
Pixar, 254
Pleistocene era, 127
Polsby, Nelson W., 81
Postmodern architecture, 226, 230
Postum Cereal Company, 74
Prelude, The (Wordsworth), 176
Printing press, 7, 20, 22, 32, 52, 197
air-conditioning and, 76
demand for spectacles generated by, 4, 22, 251
scientific revolution and, 25
Progressive Era, 223
Public health, 140, 142–45, 148–50, 154
Pullman (Illinois), 132
Pygmalion (Shaw), 138
electromagnetic, 108
Radio, 100, 105–8, 109, 110, 112–13, 121, 184
advertising on, 151–52
Morse code transmitted by, 119
noise of, 115
Radiocarbon dating, 190–92
Railroads, 59–61
refrigerator cars on, 59–60
timekeeping and, 178, 180, 182–83, 189
Refrigeration, 46, 59–61, 64–68, 250
frozen foods made possible by, 70, 76
science behind invention of, 64–65
Renaissance, 31, 32, 35–37, 90
Republican Party, 81
Reznikoff, Iegor, 88
Richards, Keith, 116
Riis, Jacob, 218, 220, 221, 222–26, 224
Rio de Janeiro, 45, 53, 83, 128
Robbins, Marty, 115
Robotics, 158
Roebuck, Alvah, 178
Rockefeller, John D., 149
Roman Catholic Church, 25
Romanticism, 176, 241, 242, 252
Ronettes, 88
Roosevelt, Theodore, 220
Royal College of Science, 27
Royal Navy, British, 120
Royal Society, 242
Russell, Charles Edward, 60
Rust Belt, 83
Sackett & Wilhelms printing company, 78
Sahara, 13
St. Louis, 182
World’s Fair, 82
Salk, Jonas, 193
Sanitation, see Sewers
São Paulo, 154
Scanners, bar-code, 233–34, 236
Schubert, Franz, 110
Scotland, Royal Astronomer of, 216
Scott de Martinville, Édouard-Léon, 91–92, 93, 94–98, 118, 252
Scribner’s magazine, 220
Seagram Building (Manhattan), 229
Sears, Richard Warren, 178
Sears, Roebuck catalog, 178
Semmelweis, Ignaz, 136–37, 152
Sewers, 127–30, 132, 134, 160, 161
drinking water and, 136, 142, 144, 154
waste-disposal technology without, 156, 158
Shaw, George Bernard, 138
SIGSALY (Green Hornet), 103–5, 107–8
Silicon dioxide, 10, 13–14, 189
physical properties of, 17, 19, 29, 31, 42–43, 251
Silicon Valley, 250
Singer Building (New York), 99
Sleep patterns, effect of artificial light on, 200–201
Smyth, Charles Piazzi, 216–18, 219, 225
Snow, John, 140, 141, 142, 154, 160
Solar energy, 54–55
Sonar, 120–23
Sonic Youth, 115
Sound amplification, 113–18
impact on public speaking of, 8, 114, 231
See also Phonograph; Radio; Vacuum tubes
Spectacles, 21, 23, 39–41, 89, 90, 172, 180, 251
Spector, Phil, 88
Sputnik, 194
Standard Time, 183
Stanford University, 254
Star Trek (television series and movies), 232
Star Wars (movies), 232
Steam engine, 64, 66, 114, 170
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 138
“Strange Fruit” (Holiday), 112
Styrofoam, 53
Submarine Signal Company (SSC), 118–20
Sumerians, 164
Sundials, 163–64, 167, 180, 182, 184
Swan, Joseph, 209
Swift, Gustavus Franklin, 59
Target stores, 234
Technics and Civilization (Mumford), 34–35
Telegraph, 61, 66, 103, 180, 182, 183
Telephones, 94, 97–107, 156, 187
mobile, 31, 100, 102, 189–90, 194
Telescopes, 10, 24–25, 34, 38–39, 251
Television, 25, 27, 105, 108, 110, 151, 168
Tenements, 220, 222–24, 224, 226
Texas Instruments, 159
Timepieces, see Clocks; Watches
Tokyo, 83
Shibuya Crossing, 229
Townes, Charles H., 188
Trade, 17
ice, see Ice trade
in meat products, 58–60
in natural goods, 54
Transistors, 80, 100, 102, 158
cash crops of, 54
ice trade in, 46, 48, 50–55, 61, 243
Trinidad, 48
Trinity Building (New York), 100
Tucson, 80
Tudor, Frederic, 45–46, 47, 48–55, 57, 61–62, 72, 80, 84–85, 167, 253
Tudor, John, 46
Tudor, William, 48–50
Turing, Alan, 103
Turner, Ike and Tina, 88
Tutankhamun, tomb of, 14, 15, 43, 199
Twitter, 31
Ultrasound, 123
United Company of Spermaceti Chandlers, 201
United States [America], 138
artificial lighting in, 197
AT&T telephone monopoly in, 100–102
bar-code scanners in, 234–35
Biological Survey of, 68
civil rights movement in, 112–13
national highway system of, 6
neon lights in, 228
water purification in, 143–46, 148–50
during World War I, 120
Universal Product Code, 234
Utah, 228
Vacuum tubes, 8, 9, 100, 108, 113–17, 250
Van Gogh, Vincent, 31
Velvet Underground, 231
glassmaking in, see Murano
Ventures, 115
VHS, 7
Victoria, Queen of England, 242
Victorian Age, 185, 216, 242, 245, 253
Vienna General Hospital, 136
Walden (Thoreau), 45
War in the Age of Intelligent Machines (De Landa), 1
War of the Worlds, The (Wells), 231, 234
Washington, D.C., 104
Washington, George, 202
Waste removal, see Sewers
Watches, 2, 170, 172, 180–82, 184–85, 189
Water, chlorination of, 143–44, 148–50
sewage and need for, 136, 142, 144, 154
Wedgewood, Josiah, 174
Wheeling (West Virginia), 182
Wiltse, Jeff, 149
Wisconsin, 180
Wolfe, Tom, 229
Woodland, Norman Joseph, 233
Woodstock, 114
Wordsworth, William, 176
World War I, 120–21
Xerox-PARC, 211
Yale University, 204
School of Art and Architecture, 226
Yellow fever, 211
Young Electric Sign Company (YESCO), 228–30
Zeiss, Carl, 142