ISBN:
9783030713935
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 830 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Ayres, Robert U., 1932 - The history and future of technology
DDC:
303.483
Keywords:
Technology-History
;
Technology-Social aspects
;
Technology and civilization
;
Electronic books
;
Technik
Abstract:
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Part I: Before the Industrial Revolution -- 1: Introduction -- 2: Fire and Water: Technologies Extending Nature -- 2.1 Bipedalism: Down from the Trees -- 2.2 Pottery, Cooking, and Mobility -- 2.3 Keeping the Dark at Bay -- 2.4 Pain, Anesthesia, and Surgery -- 2.5 Water Management and Farming -- 2.6 Agriculture -- 2.7 Extensions of the Legs: Mobility and Transport -- 3: Extensions of the Body -- 3.1 From Skin to Fibers -- 3.2 From Fibers to Fabrics and Clothing -- 3.3 From Caves to Walls to Settlements -- 3.4 From Teeth and Claws to Bows and Arrows -- 3.5 Metallurgy -- 3.6 Firearms and Explosives -- 4: Words and Music -- 4.1 Cave Art -- 4.2 Writing and Stories -- 4.3 Tokens, Numbers, Ideographs, Pictographs, and Cuneiform -- 4.4 Logography: Shift from Visual to Aural -- 4.5 The Alphabet: Segmentation of Sounds -- 4.6 Musical Notation -- 4.7 Musical Instruments -- 4.8 From Numbers to Arithmetic And Algebra -- 5: Printing, Movable Type, and Books -- 5.1 Precursors of Paper -- 5.2 Gutenberg, Movable Type, and the Bible -- 5.3 The Protestant Reformation and the Rise of Knowledge -- Part II: The Age of Fossile Fuels -- 6: The Enlightenment: The Rise of Science -- 6.1 Money and Credit -- 6.2 Universities and "Higher Learning" -- 6.3 Alchemy and Chemistry -- 6.4 Magnetism and Electricity -- 6.5 Philosophy and Astronomy -- 6.6 Entropy, Complexity, and the Universe as a "Heat Engine" -- 7: The First Stage of Industrialization: Coking and Canals (1712-1820) -- 7.1 Coking and Iron Smelting -- 7.2 Coal and Canals -- 7.3 Foundations of Chemistry -- 7.4 The Alkali Industry and Soap Making -- 7.5 Phosphorus and "Safety Matches" -- 7.6 Rubber -- 8: Machine Tools and Mechanization -- 8.1 Attaching Metals: Welding, Soldering and Brazing, Riveting.
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