ISBN:
9780195135831
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (271 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version The Engines of Our Ingenuity : An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Lienhard, John H., 1930 - The engines of our ingenuity
DDC:
303.48/3
Keywords:
Technology -- Social aspects
;
Creative ability in technology
;
Electronic books ; local
;
Creative ability in technology
;
Technology ; Social aspects
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Technik
;
Geschichte
;
Ingenieurwissenschaften
;
Kreativität
Abstract:
Millions of people have listened to John H. Lienhard's radio program "The Engines of Our Ingenuity." In this fascinating book, Lienhard gathers his reflections on the nature of technology, culture, and human inventiveness. The book brims with insightful observations. Lienhard writes that the history of technology is a history of us--we are the machines we create. Thus farming dramatically changed the rhythms of human life and redirected history. War seldom fuels invention--radar, jets, and the digital computer all emerged before World War II began. And the medieval Church was a drivi
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Preface; 1 Mirrored by Our Machines; 2 God, the Master Craftsman; 3 Looking Inside the Inventive Mind; 4 The Common Place; 5 Science Marries into the Family; 6 Industrial Revolution; 7 Inventing America; 8 Taking Flight; 9 Attitudes and Technological Change; 10 War and Other Ways to Kill People; 11 Major Landmarks; 12 Systems, Design, and Production; 13 Heroic Materialism; 14 Who Got There First; 15 Ever-Present Dangers; 16 Technology and Literature; 17 Being There; Correlation of the Text with the Radio Program; Notes; Index;
Note:
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