Week 2: Beer

when reading look for

  • How human choice affects technological determinism 
  • The effect of public taste and choice on technological progress in commercial brewing 
  • Factors, other than the available technology, that contributed to the industrialization of commercial brewing after the 1840s

Commercial Brewing

(30 min read)

Follow the link to the UMGC library and read pages 148-163, “Inconsiderable Progress: Commercial Brewing in Philadelphia before 1840,” In McGaw, Judith A. Early American Technology: Making and Doing Things From the Colonial Era to 1850. Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press, 1994.

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