A culture of improvement : technology and the Western millennium / / Robert Friedel
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| Autore: |
Friedel Robert D (Robert Douglas), <1950->
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| Titolo: |
A culture of improvement : technology and the Western millennium / / Robert Friedel
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | x, 588 p. : ill |
| Disciplina: | 303.48/3 |
| Soggetto topico: | Civilization, Western |
| Intellectual life | |
| Technological innovations - History | |
| Technology and civilization | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [545]-568) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A culture of improvement |
| ISBN: | 1-282-09864-0 |
| 9786612098642 | |
| 0-262-27323-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910823886103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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