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The mantra of efficiency : from waterwheel to social control / Jennifer Karns Alexander.
Lippincott Library HC79.T4 A443 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alexander, Jennifer Karns, 1963-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technological innovations--History.
- Technological innovations.
- History.
- Industrial efficiency.
- Science and industry.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The varieties of efficiency
- Static and dynamic efficiency: the waterwheels of Smeaton and the Franklin Institute
- The effects of control: Gérard-Joseph Christian and perfected machines
- Economy of nature: Darwin, Marshall, and the costs of efficiency
- Balance and transformation: technical and popular efficiency in the Progressive Era United States
- An island of mechanical predictability: efficient worker seating in late Weimar Germany
- Pride in efficiency: the dispute over Time on the cross
- Global efficiency: an enduring industrial value in a postindustrial world
- Conclusion: The future of efficiency
- Notes
- Bibliographic essay
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-199) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780801886935
- 0801886937
- OCLC:
- 124164348
- Publisher Number:
- 99934629481
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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