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A culture of improvement : technology and the Western millennium / Robert Friedel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Friedel, Robert D. (Robert Douglas), 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization, Western.
- Intellectual life.
- Technological innovations--History.
- Technological innovations.
- Technology and civilization.
- Physical Description:
- x, 588 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [545]-568) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-09864-0
- 9786612098642
- 0-262-27323-3
- OCLC:
- 191935478
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