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A Culture of Improvement : Technology and the Western Millennium.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (601 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262273237
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Culture of ImprovementDDC classification:
  • 303.48/3
LOC classification:
  • T15 -- .F774 2007eb
Online resources:
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.
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.
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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.

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.

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