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200 12$aA culture of improvement $etechnology and the Western millennium /$fRobert Friedel
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aCambridge, MA $cMIT Press$dc2007
215   $ax, 588 p. $cill
300   $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
311   $a0-262-06262-3 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [545]-568) and index.
327   $aIntro -- 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.
330   $aHow 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.
606   $aCivilization, Western
606   $aIntellectual life
606   $aTechnological innovations$xHistory
606   $aTechnology and civilization
615  0$aCivilization, Western.
615  0$aIntellectual life.
615  0$aTechnological innovations$xHistory.
615  0$aTechnology and civilization.
676   $a303.48/3
700   $aFriedel$b Robert D$g(Robert Douglas),$f1950-$01672101
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