RSSOn William J. Turkel's Digital History Hacks site, he writes (back in Dec):
In December 2004, I bought a copy of Joe Martin's Tabletop Machining to see what would be involved in learning how to make clockwork mechanisms and automata. It was pretty obvious that I had many years of study ahead of me, but I had just finished my PhD and knew that publishing that would take a few years more. So I didn't mind beginning something else that might take ten or fifteen years to master. Since then, I've been reading steadily about making things, but it wasn't until this past fall that I actually had the chance to set up a small Lab for Humanistic Fabrication and begin making stuff in earnest. Since it's December again, I thought I'd put together a small list of books to help other would-be humanist makers.
His list includes a lot of great books about making things, and about technology in the context of human culture. He even has a few of ours in there.
Some Winter Reading for Humanist Makers [Thanks, Patti!]
