Picture from 1987.
Courses that have touched on the expansion of technology:
Aviation is developed; The Hoover Dam is completed; The Great Depression rages on; Millions of civil service jobs are created in the Emergency Relief Association Act.
1935: Place and Effects of Science and Technology in Modern Civilizations. Professor Bowen. This course aims to describe and interpret the most significant changes, trends, and problems in contemporary civilization. Particular attention will be paid to the place and important of science and technology in the making of the modern world and mind, and the effects of science and the machine on institutions, standards, philosophies and modes of living. A part of the material will be drawn from contemporary literature.
In 1930s, the Nanking decade is present in China, in which most of the country is unified and political stability prevails.
1938: The Social and Economic Transformation of China in Our Own Time. Professor Lattimore. The Social and (incidentally) the Economic and Political Transformation of China in Recent Modern Times, as the result, primarily, of the impact of Occidental influences on the Old Chinese order.
Through the 1960s to 1990s, computing is developed at Dartmouth: See full history here.
1970: The Computer in the Social Sciences. Assistant Professor Meyers. The application of the electronic computer, especially the time-shared version of the species, to research and pedagogical tasks in the social sciences provides the major focus. In particular, attention is given to, customary and novel schemes of representation of information, simple manipulation of complex data masses, techniques of analysis, and various algorithms developed in Project IMPRESS. Tangential topics include simulation, social science computer languages, information retrieval, and games. Each student will carry out one major project during the term. By use of split sessions early in the course, the computer expert is introduced to the social sciences, and the social science major is given thorough exposure to computing.