The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World From Scratch (32 page)

honey-sucker trucks in Bangalore
:
Pearce (2013).

Dillo Dirt
:
http://austintexas.gov/dillodirt.

superphosphate fertilizer factories in London
:
Weisman (2007).

Canadian potash
:
Mokyr (1990).

food production trap
:
Standage (2010).

4: FOOD AND CLOTHING

Agromisa Foundation,
Preservation of Foods.

Felipe Fernández-Armesto,
Food: A History
.

Joan Koster,
Handloom Construction: A Practical Guide for the Non-Expert
.

Michael Pollan,
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
.

John Seymour,
The New Complete Book of Self-sufficiency
.

Tom Standage,
An Edible History Humanity
.

Carol Hupping Stoner,
Stocking Up: How to Preserve the Foods You Grow Naturally
.

Abbott Payson Usher,
A History of Mechanical Inventions
.

Epigraph
:
Quote from “The Ruin,” an eighth-century poem in the Exeter Book, written by an unknown Saxon author lamenting Roman ruins. This translation taken from Tainter (1988).

food preservation
:
Agromisa Foundation (1990), Buttriss (1999), Stoner (1973).

jury-rigged smokehouse
:
Stoner (1973).

nixtamalization
:
Fernández-Armesto (2001).

preparation of cereals
:
UNIFEM (1988).

preparing a sourdough
:
Avery (2001a, b), Lang (2003).

Mongolian still
:
Sella (2012).

Zeer pot
:
Löfström (2011).

Einstein’s refrigerator
:
Silverman (2001), Jha (2008).

compressor and absorber designs of refrigerator
:
Cowan (1985), Bell (2011).

wool spinning
:
Wigginton (1973).

simple weaving
:
Koster (1979).

the button
:
Mokyr (1990), Mortimer (2008).

mechanization of spinning and weaving
:
Usher (1982), Mokyr (1990), Allen (2009).

5: SUBSTANCES

Alan P. Dalton,
Chemicals from Biological Resources
.

William B. Dick,
Dick’s Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes
.

Kevin M. Dunn,
Caveman Chemistry: 28 Projects, from the Creation of Fire to the Production of Plastics
.

Epigraph
:
Atwood (2003).

thermal energy through history
:
De Decker (2011).

importance of coke in Industrial Revolution
:
Allen (2009).

coppicing firewood
:
Stanford (1976).

charcoal
:
Goodall (2008).

Brazilian charcoal for steel production
:
Kato et al. (2005).

reserve technologies
:
Edgerton (2007a).

lime burning
:
Wingate (1985).

hand washing and reduction of gastrointestinal diseases
:
Bloomfield and Nath (2009).

the importance of alkalis throughout history
:
Deighton (1907), Reilly (1951).

wood pyrolysis
:
Dumesny and Noyer (1908), Dalton (1973), Boyle and Harper (1976), McClure (2000).

acetone shortage in the First World War
:
David (2012).

sulfuric acid
:
McKee and Salk (1924), Karpenko (2002).

6: MATERIALS

Kevin M. Dunn,
Caveman Chemistry: 28 Projects, from the Creation of Fire to the Production of Plastics.

Albert Jackson and David Day,
Tools and How to Use Them: An Illustrated Encyclopedia
.

Carl G. Johnson and William R. Weeks,
Metallurgy
.

Richard Shelton Kirby et al.,
Engineering in History
.

Epigraph
:
Miller (1960).

wood
:
United States Department of Agriculture (1974).

basic construction techniques
:
Leckie (1981), P. Stern (1983), van Lengen (2008).

Roman pozzolana cement
:
Oleson (2008).

reinforced concrete
:
P. Stern (1983).

ironworking
:
Weygers (1974), Winden (1990).

making and using tools
:
Weygers (1973), Jackson and Day (1978).

hardening and tempering tools
:
Gentry and Westbury (1980).

oxyacetylene torch
:
Parkin and Flood (1969).

arc welding
:
Lincoln Electric Company (1973).

bootstrapping a complete metalworking shop
:
Gingery (2011).

small-scale foundry and metal casting
:
Aspin (1975).

iron smelting
:
Allen (2009), Johnson (1977).

Chinese blast furnace
:
Mokyr (1990).

Bessemer process
:
Mokyr (1990).

glassmaking
:
Whitby (1983).

“lead crystal” glass
:
MacLeod (1987).

central role of glass in science
:
Macfarlane (2002).

7: MEDICINE

Murray Dickson,
Where There Is No Dentist
.

Roy Porter,
Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine
.

Anne Rooney,
The Story of Medicine: From Early Healing to the Miracles of Modern Medicine.

David Werner,
Where There Is No Doctor
:
A Village Health Care Handbook
.

Epigraph
:
John Lloyd Stephens, ca. 1841, in Diamond,
Collapse
(2005).

diseases from animals
:
Porter (2002), Rooney (2009).

importance of sanitation
:
Solomon (2011), Conant (2005), Mann and Williamson (1982).

cholera
:
Clark (2010).

oral rehydration therapy
:
Conant (2005).

obstetric forceps kept a secret
:
Porter (2002).

car-parts incubator
:
Johnson (2010), http://designthatmatters.org/impact/ heonurture.

serendipitous discovery of X-rays
:
Gribbin (2002), Osman (2011), Kean (2010).

willow bark and aspirin
:
Mokyr (1990), Pollard (2010).

scurvy and the first clinical trial
:
Osman (2011).

principles of surgery
:
Cook (1988).

anesthetics
:
Dobson (1988).

nitrous oxide
:
Gribbin (2002), Holmes (2008).

instructions for rudimentary microscope
:
Casselman (2011).

Leeuwenhoek
:
Macfarlane (2002), Crump (2001), Gribbin, (2002), Sherman (2006).

Marcus Terentius Varro
:
Rooney (2009).

serendipitous discovery of antibiotics
:
Lax (2004), Kelly (2010), Winston (2010), Pollard (2010).

extraction and mass production of penicillin
:
Lax (2004).

8: POWER TO THE PEOPLE

Godfrey Boyle and Peter Harper,
Radical Technology
.

Alexis Madrigal,
Powering the Dream
:
The History and Promise of Green Technology
.

Abbott Payson Usher,
A History of Mechanical Inventions
.

Epigraph
:
Frank (1959).

Roman waterwheel
:
Usher (1982), Oleson (2008).

key innovations during the
supposedly “dark” medieval era
:
Fara (2009).

windmills
:
McGuigan (1978a), Mokyr (1990), Hills (1996), De Decker (2009.)

importance of waterwheels and windmills
:
Basalla (1988).

diverse uses
of waterwheels and windmills
:
Usher (1982), Solomon (2011).

mechanisms for transforming motion
:
Hiscox (2007), Brown (2008).

suction pumps
:
Fraenkel (1997).

steam engine
:
Usher (1982), Mokyr (1990), Crump (2001), Allen (2009).

voltaic pile
:
Gribbin (2002).

Baghdad battery
:
Schlesinger (2010), Osman (2011).

discovery of electromagnetism
:
Crump (2001), Gribbin (2002), Hamilton (2003), Fara (2009), Schlesinger (2010), Ball (2012).

retrofitting a traditional four-sail windmill
:
Watson and Thomson (2005).

Charles Brush’s electricity-generating windmill
:
Hills (1996), Winston (2010), Krouse (2011).

water turbines
:
McGuigan (1978b), Usher (1982), Holland (1986), Mokyr (1990), Eisenring (1991).

9: TRANSPORT

Epigraph
:
Dahl (1975).

Rudolf Diesel quote
:
Goodall (2008).

bioethanol
:
United States Department of Energy (1980), Goodall (2008).

biodiesel
:
Rosen (2007), Strawbridge (2010).

gas bag vehicles
:
House (1978), De Decker (2011b).

wood-fueled Tiger tanks
:
Krammer (1978).

wood gasifiers
:
De Decker (2010b), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (1986), LaFontaine and Zimmerman (1989).

guayule
:
National Academy of Sciences (1977).

harnessing oxen
:
Starkey (1989).

throat-and-girth harness and horse collar
:
Mokyr (1990).

peak horse use
:
Edgerton (2007a, b).

sails
:
Farndon (2010).

Cuban resurrection of animal traction
:
Edgerton (2007b).

penny-farthing and modern safety bicycle
:
Broers (2005).

the nature of novel technologies and the automobile as a lashing together of preexisting mechanical solutions
:
Arthur (2009), Kelly (2010), Mokyr (1990).

internal combustion engine and motor vehicle mechanisms
:
Bureau of Naval Personnel (1971), Hillier and Pittuck (1981), Usher (1982).

history of electric cars
:
Crump (2001), Edgerton (2007a), Brooks (2009), De Decker (2010c), Madrigal (2011).

10: COMMUNICATION

J. P. Davidson,
Planet Word
:
The Story of Language from the Earliest Grunts to Twitter and Beyond
.

Epigraph
:
Shelley (1818).

history of paper
:
Mokyr (1990).

chemical liberation of cellulose fibers
:
Dunn (2003).

papermaking
:
Vigneault (2007), Seymour (2009).

ink from berries
:
Dragotta (2007).

iron gall ink
:
Finlay (2002), Fruen (2002), Smith (2009).

social ramifications of printing press
:
Broers (2005), Farndon (2010).

development of printing press
:
Usher (1982), Mokyr (1990), Finlay (2002), Johnson (2010).

rudimentary radio transmitters and receivers
:
Parker (1999), Field (n. d.), Crump (2001).

foxhole/POW radios
:
Wells (1995), Ross (2005), Carusella (2008), and see Gillies (2011) for further ingenuity among POWs.

11: ADVANCED CHEMISTRY

Kevin M. Dunn,
Caveman Chemistry: 28 Projects, from the Creation of Fire to the Production of Plastics
.

Sam Kean,
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
.

Joel Mokyr,
The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress.