History Now Essay Technology of the 1800s Brent D. Glass Government and Civics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ In his classic study, Democracy in America (1835–1840), Alexis de Tocqueville titled one of his chapters "Why the Americans are more Addicted to Practical rather than Theoretical Science." He observed that the political and social... Appears in: 10 | Nineteenth Century Technology Winter 2006