A History of Western technology
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A History of Western technology
(The M.I.T. Press paperback series, MIT 14)
M.I.T. Press, 1964
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Technik : eine Geschichte ihrer Probleme
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Note
"The German original Technik : eine Geschichte ihrer Probleme, first published by Verlag Karl Alber in the series Orbis Academicus, 1954. English translation first publised 1959"--T.p.. verso
"Second printing, first MIT Press paperback edition, August 1964"--T.p. verso
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A history of technology from Graeco-Roman times to the twentieth century told through historical writings.
This history of technology from Graeco-Roman times through the early twentieth century is told through contemporary writings by technologists, churchmen, naturalists, poets, economists, and statesman. These writings reveal how historical circumstance altered the direction of technical development, and how the intellectual forces of a period influenced and were in turn modified by technical progress. Topics covered include the position of technology in ancient Greece; early Christianity and technology; Islamic technology; engineering artists in the Renaissance; technical undertakings in the Baroque period; eighteenth-century England's lead in technology ; the factory system of the industrial age; and automation in the twentieth century. Each section of the book contains numerous illustrations.
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