03652nam 22005655 450 991025432070332120220519193536.03-319-55248-110.1007/978-3-319-55248-4(CKB)3710000001364456(DE-He213)978-3-319-55248-4(MiAaPQ)EBC4858289(PPN)201474581(EXLCZ)99371000000136445620170513d2017 u| 0engurnn#008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierTransports of Delight[electronic resource] How Technology Materializes Human Imagination /by Peter Hancock1st ed. 2017.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2017.1 online resource (XXV, 235 p. 52 illus.)3-319-55247-3 Includes bibliographical references.Introduction -- Ghosts of the Temeraire -- What a Sight It Is -- The Largest Moving Object Ever Built -- Reaching For God -- Surviving Sisters -- The Riddle of the Labyrinth -- Ships of the Soul -- Threads Through Time -- Transports of Delight -- Autobiomimesis.This inspiring book shows how the spiritual side of life, with its thoughts, feelings, and aspirations, is intimately bound up with our material technologies. From the wonder of Gothic Cathedrals, to the quiet majesty of lighter than air flight, to the ultimate in luxury of the north Atlantic steamers, Peter Hancock explores how these sequential heights of technology have enabled our dreams of being transported to new and uncharted realms to become reality. Sometimes literally, sometimes figuratively, technology has always been there to make material the visions of our imagination. This book shows how this has essentially been true for all technologies from Stonehenge to space station. But technology is far from perfect. Indeed, the author argues here that some of the most public and tragic of its failures still remain instructive, emblematic, and even inspiring. He reports on examples such as a Cathedral of the Earth (Beauvais), a Cathedral of the Seas (Titanic), and a Cathedral of the Air (Hindenburg) and tells their stories from the viewpoint of material transcendence. By interweaving their stories he reveals how technologies can succeed in elevating human beings and, in taking them to whole new realms of being, he explores and explains why these experiences are ‘Transports of Delight.’.TechnologyPsychology, AppliedTechnologyHistoryPhilosophyPopular Science in Technologyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q36000Applied Psychologyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Y20210History of Technologyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/T29000Philosophy of Technologyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E34050Technology.Psychology, Applied.TechnologyHistory.Philosophy.Popular Science in Technology.Applied Psychology.History of Technology.Philosophy of Technology.600Hancock Peterauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut62797BOOK9910254320703321Transports of Delight1981980UNINA