1. Kenneth Whyte, Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017; Herbert Hoover, The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, vol. 1, Years of Adventure, 1874–1920; vol. 2, The Cabinet and the Presidency, 1920–1933; vol. 3, The Great Depression, 1929–1941, New York: Macmillan, 1951–1953; Rose Wilder Lane, The Making of Herbert Hoover, New York: Century, 1920.

2. Ellsworth Carlson, The Kaiping Mines, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1957.

3. О мировом экономическом лидерстве см. W. Arthur Lewis, Growth and Fluctuations, 1870–1913, London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1978, 94–113.

4. Jack Goldstone, Efflorescences and Economic Growth in World History: Rethinking the 'Rise of the West' and the Industrial Revolution, Journal of World History 13, no. 2 (September 2002): 323–389.

5. Lewis, Growth, 14.

6. Globalization over Five Centuries, World, Our World in Data, https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/globalization-over-5-centuries?country =~OWID_WRL.

7. По вопросу технологической истории с 1700 по 1945 год лучшей работой, по крайней мере для меня, остается David Landes, The Unbound Prometheus, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969.

8. Robert Gordon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U. S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017, 61.

9. Donald Sassoon, One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the Twentieth Century, New York: New Press, 1996, xxxiii. Отмечу, что Сассуну не очень нравится это превращение революционной идеи в торжество технологий.

10. Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014, 24; Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age: A Novel of Today, Boone, IA: Library of America, 2002 [1873].

11. О жизни промышленного рабочего класса Америки в 1900 году см. On the lives of America's industrial working class around 1900, см. The Households of a Mill Town, New York: Charities Publication Committee, 1910.

12. Nicola Tesla, My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nicola Tesla, New York: Hart Bros., 1982 [1919]; Marc Seifer, Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla, Toronto: Citadel Press, 2011.

13. Margaret Cheney, Tesla: Man Out of Time, New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001, 56.

14. Nikola Tesla, My Early Life, Electrical Experimenter, 1919, reprinted by David Major at Medium, January 4, 2017, https://medium.com /@dlmajor/my-early-life-by-nikola-tesla–7b55945ee114.

15. Paul David, Heroes, Herds, and Hysteresis in Technological History: Thomas Edison and the 'Battle of the Systems' Reconsidered, Industrial and Corporate Change 1, no. 1 (1992): 125–180; Landes, Unbound Prometheus, 284–289.

16. Атмосфера, см. Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night: A Novel, New York: Random House, 2016.

17. Quentin Skrabec, George Westinghouse: Gentle Genius, New York: Algora, 2007, 7–23.

18. David Glantz, Operation Barbarossa: Hitler's Invasion of Russia, 1941, Cheltenham, UK: History Press, 2011, 19–22.

19. Ирвин Кольер считает, что G.H.M. – это Гилберт Холланд Монтегю. Irwin Collier, Harvard(?) Professor's Standard of Living, 1905, Economics in the Rear-View Mirror, 2017, www.irwincollier.com/harvard-professors-standard-of-living-1905; Gilbert Holland Mongague, 1880–1961, Internet Archive Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20040310032941/http://www.montaguemillennium.com/familyresearch/h_1961_gilbert.htm.

20. G.H.M., What Should College Professors Be Paid? Atlantic Monthly 95, no. 5 (May 1905): 647–650.

21. Byington, Homestead.

22. Ray Ginger, Age of Excess: American Life from the End of Reconstruction to World War I, New York: Macmillan, 1965, 95.

23. J. R. Habakkuk, American and British Technology in the Nineteenth Century: The Search for Labour-Saving Inventions, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962.

24. Claudia D. Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz, The Race Between Education and Technology, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008; Claudia Goldin, The Human Capital Century and American Leadership: Virtues of the Past, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working paper 8239, Journal of Economic History 61, no. 2 (June 2001): 263–292, available at NBER, www.nber.org/papers/w8239.

25. Leon Trotsky, My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930.

26. Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, New York: Harper and Bros., 1942, 83.