ISBN:
9780262273237
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (601 pages)
Series Statement:
The MIT Press Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version Friedel, Robert D Culture of Improvement : Technology and the Western Millennium
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Friedel, Robert D. A culture of improvement
DDC:
303.483
Keywords:
Technological innovations History
;
Technology and civilization
;
Civilization, Western
;
Intellectual life
;
Technological innovations -- History
;
Electronic books ; local
;
Civilization, Western
;
Intellectual life
;
Technological innovations ; History
;
Technology and civilization
;
Electronic books
;
Westliche Welt
;
Technologie
;
Innovation
;
Weltgeschichte
;
Westliche Welt
;
Technologie
;
Innovation
;
Weltgeschichte
;
Westliche Welt
;
Technologie
;
Innovation
;
Weltgeschichte
Abstract:
How technological change in the West has been driven by the pursuit of improvement: a history of technology, from plows and printing presses to penicillin, the atomic bomb, and the computer.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Technology and Improvement -- 2 Plows and Horses -- 3 Power -- 4 Buildings for God and Man -- 5 Transforming Matter -- 6 Light and Time -- 7 Types of Change -- 8 Earth, Fire, Water, and Air -- 9 Improving Knowledge -- 10 Improvers and Engineers -- 11 Raising Fire -- 12 Fabrics of Change -- 13 Artisans, Philosophes, and Entrepreneurs -- 14 Airs and Lightning -- 15 Mobility -- 16 Messages -- 17 Engineering Emerges -- 18 Stuff, Reality, and Dreams -- 19 The Improvement of Violence -- 20 Learning -- 21 Dynamics -- 22 Land and Life -- 23 Scale -- 24 The Corruption of Improvement -- 25 Networks -- 26 Improvement's End -- Notes -- Index.
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