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Author : Bertrand Gille
Publisher : Gordon & Breach Science Publishers
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015011474049
Author : Bertrand Gille
Publisher : Gordon & Breach Science Publishers
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015019387557
Author : Bertrand Gille
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:37969590
Author : Bertrand Gille
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Kulturhistorie
ISBN : 2881241557
Author : Bertrand Gille
Publisher : Gordon & Breach Science Publishers
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015015352068
Author : Bertrand Gille
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2881241557
Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226550275
Technics and Civilization first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934—before television, the personal computer, and the Internet even appeared on our periphery. Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, Lewis Mumford explained the origin of the machine age and traced its social results, asserting that the development of modern technology had its roots in the Middle Ages rather than the Industrial Revolution. Mumford sagely argued that it was the moral, economic, and political choices we made, not the machines that we used, that determined our then industrially driven economy. Equal parts powerful history and polemic criticism, Technics and Civilization was the first comprehensive attempt in English to portray the development of the machine age over the last thousand years—and to predict the pull the technological still holds over us today. “The questions posed in the first paragraph of Technics and Civilization still deserve our attention, nearly three quarters of a century after they were written.”—Journal of Technology and Culture
Author : Pierre-Louis Viollet
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780203375310
This new book offers an engineer's perspective on the history of water technology and its impact on the development of civilisation. A Second Edition and translation into English of the French book "L'Hydraulique dans les Civilisations Anciennes".Water professionals, engineers, scientists, and students will find this book fascinating and invaluable
Author : Volker Wulf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780198733249
This book is about how computer systems might be designed to serve their users rather better. It deals with how to study the natural behaviour of users to see how computer systems might best help them, and how one might also involve them in the design of computer systems that will assist them in their everyday practices.
Author : Cort MacLean Johns, Ph.D.-HSG
Publisher : Cort MacLean Johns Ph.D.- HSG
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789463458443
Ever increasing research evidence continues to mount. Having started my research on the connection of the Hydraulis to the roots of the more recent Industrial Revolution at the University of St. Gallen in 1989 over 30 years ago, I continue to identify additional support for it. We do not know whether the beginnings of an Industrial Revolution in Hellenistic Greece would have continued if not cut off by the Roman Empire's conquests. Neither do we know whether the more recent (latent) Industrial Revolution could have risen up again in the 17th-century without Vitruvius or Hero of Alexander's preserved writings. The point of this book is to emphasize with new findings that had the Romans not stopped the growth of science and technology in the Hellenistic Period that it would have likely continued to develop into a full-fledged Industrial Revolution. Secondly, the more recent Industrial Revolution borrowed heavily on the technology and science of the Hellenistic Period. In the true sense of the "Renaissance" 17th-century industrial progress largely picked up the written remnants of Antiquity to be able to continue on after a centuries long caesura.
Author : Arnold Pacey,Francesca Bray
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262366281
The new edition of a milestone work on the global history of technology. This milestone history of technology, first published in 1990 and now revised and expanded in light of recent research, broke new ground by taking a global view, avoiding the conventional Eurocentric perspective and placing the development of technology squarely in the context of a "world civilization." Case studies include "technological dialogues" between China and West Asia in the eleventh century, medieval African states and the Islamic world, and the United States and Japan post-1950. It examines railway empires through the examples of Russia and Japan and explores current synergies of innovation in energy supply and smartphone technology through African cases. The book uses the term "technological dialogue" to challenges the top-down concept of "technology transfer," showing instead that technologies are typically modified to fit local needs and conditions, often triggering further innovation. The authors trace these encounters and exchanges over a thousand years, examining changes in such technologies as agriculture, firearms, printing, electricity, and railroads. A new chapter brings the narrative into the twenty-first century, discussing technological developments including petrochemicals, aerospace, and digitalization from often unexpected global viewpoints and asking what new kind of industrial revolution is needed to meet the challenges of the Anthropocene.
Author : Pierre-Louis Viollet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Hydraulic engineering
ISBN : 1135067805
This new book offers an engineer's perspective on the history of water technology and it's impact on the development of civilisation. A Second Edition and translation into English of the French book ""L'Hydraulique dans les Civilisations Anciennes"". Water professionals, engineers, scientists, and students will find this book fascinating and invaluable to their understanding of the fundamental role of water engineering in the development of civilization. The book abounds with descriptions of hydraulic techniques in the civilizations of the classical era and the Middle Ages, including illustrat.
Author : Marcel Mauss
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781571816627
"It seems that Mauss's fame has grown in inverse proportion to knowledge of his actual writings. It should therefore be a matter of celebration that his occasional writings on techniques and technology have been published in English...when we look more closely at what Mauss did and did not do, his iconic status may be somewhat tarnished. But his general example still has the power to inspire, and maybe that is what counts." - JRAI "The appearance of these two essays... in English for the first time attests to the continuing interest in Marcel Mauss and the fact that re-readings of his work still provide not only fertile ground for new interpretations of the Durkheimian school in general, but also a source of inspiration for scholars approaching Mauss as a remarkably contemporary voice still speaking in many ways to current issues in sociology and anthropology." - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Marcel Mauss's writings on techniques and technology are at the forefront of an important anthropological and sociological research tradition, and they also highlight the theoretical and ideological challenges surrounding this field of study. A selection of Mauss's texts - including his major statements on methodology, on body techniques, on practical reason, on nation and civilisation, on progress, and so forth - are here translated and presented together for the first time, with a discussion of their context, impact and implications. This book will interest scholars and students dealing with the French sociological tradition, and also more generally those concerned with technology and material culture studies in archaeological, anthropological or contemporary settings. Nathan Schlanger coordinates the AREA project (Archives of European Archaeology) at the INHA, Paris. He has published on prehistoric archaeology, on the technological contributions of Mauss and Leroi-Gourhan, and on the history of archaeology in colonial (African) contexts.
Author : Pierre-Louis Viollet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Hydraulic engineering
ISBN : 1135067813
This new book offers an engineer's perspective on the history of water technology and it's impact on the development of civilisation. A Second Edition and translation into English of the French book ""L'Hydraulique dans les Civilisations Anciennes"". Water professionals, engineers, scientists, and students will find this book fascinating and invaluable to their understanding of the fundamental role of water engineering in the development of civilization. The book abounds with descriptions of hydraulic techniques in the civilizations of the classical era and the Middle Ages, including illustrat.
Author : Arnold Pacey,Francesca Bray
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262542463
The new edition of a milestone work on the global history of technology. This milestone history of technology, first published in 1990 and now revised and expanded in light of recent research, broke new ground by taking a global view, avoiding the conventional Eurocentric perspective and placing the development of technology squarely in the context of a "world civilization." Case studies include "technological dialogues" between China and West Asia in the eleventh century, medieval African states and the Islamic world, and the United States and Japan post-1950. It examines railway empires through the examples of Russia and Japan and explores current synergies of innovation in energy supply and smartphone technology through African cases. The book uses the term "technological dialogue" to challenges the top-down concept of "technology transfer," showing instead that technologies are typically modified to fit local needs and conditions, often triggering further innovation. The authors trace these encounters and exchanges over a thousand years, examining changes in such technologies as agriculture, firearms, printing, electricity, and railroads. A new chapter brings the narrative into the twenty-first century, discussing technological developments including petrochemicals, aerospace, and digitalization from often unexpected global viewpoints and asking what new kind of industrial revolution is needed to meet the challenges of the Anthropocene.
