LEADER 03625nam 22005655 450 001 9910254320703321 005 20220519193536.0 010 $a3-319-55248-1 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-55248-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000001364456 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-55248-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4858289 035 $a(PPN)201474581 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001364456 100 $a20170513d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTransports of Delight $eHow Technology Materializes Human Imagination /$fby Peter Hancock 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (XXV, 235 p. 52 illus.) 311 0 $a3-319-55247-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 330 $aThis 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.?. 606 $aTechnology 606 $aPsychology, Applied 606 $aTechnology$xHistory 606 $aPhilosophy 606 $aPopular Science in Technology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q36000 606 $aApplied Psychology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Y20210 606 $aHistory of Technology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/T29000 606 $aPhilosophy of Technology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E34050 615 0$aTechnology. 615 0$aPsychology, Applied. 615 0$aTechnology$xHistory. 615 0$aPhilosophy. 615 14$aPopular Science in Technology. 615 24$aApplied Psychology. 615 24$aHistory of Technology. 615 24$aPhilosophy of Technology. 676 $a600 700 $aHancock$b Peter$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$062797 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910254320703321 996 $aTransports of Delight$91981980 997 $aUNINA LEADER 01001nam0 22002651i 450 001 UON00327467 005 20231205104206.466 010 $a05-213-2711-3 100 $a20090723d1987 |0itac50 ba 101 $aeng 102 $aGB 105 $a|||| ||||| 200 1 $aAmerican realism and American drama, 1880-1940$fBrenda Murphy 210 $aCambridge$cCambridge University Press$d1987 215 $aXIV, 232 p.$d23 cm. 620 $dCambridge$3UONL000022 676 $a812$cLetteratura drammatica americana.$v21 700 1$aMURPHY$bBrenda$3UONV131468$0155354 712 $aCambridge University Press$3UONV245943$4650 801 $aIT$bSOL$c20250620$gRICA 899 $aSIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEO$2UONSI 912 $aUON00327467 950 $aSIBA - SISTEMA BIBLIOTECARIO DI ATENEO$dSI VII A MUR $eSI LO 40769 5 996 $aAmerican realism and American drama, 1880-1940$91368459 997 $aUNIOR