A culture of improvement : technology and the Western millennium /
Friedel, Robert D. 1950-
A culture of improvement : technology and the Western millennium / Robert Friedel. - x, 588 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-568) and index.
Technology and Improvement -- Plows and Horses -- Power -- Buildings for God and Man -- Transforming Matter -- Light and Time -- Types of Change -- Earth, Fire, Water, and Air -- Improving Knowledge -- Improvers and Engineers -- Raising Fire -- Fabrics of Change -- Artisans, Philosophes, and Entrepreneurs -- Airs and Lightning -- Mobility -- Messages -- Engineering Emerges -- Stuff, Reality, and Dreams -- The Improvement of Violence -- Learning -- Dynamics -- Land and Life -- Scale -- The Corruption of Improvement -- Networks -- Improvement's End.
0262062623 9780262062626
2006050722
Technological innovations--History
Technology and civilization
Civilization, Western
Intellectual life
T15 / .F774 2007
303.483
A culture of improvement : technology and the Western millennium / Robert Friedel. - x, 588 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-568) and index.
Technology and Improvement -- Plows and Horses -- Power -- Buildings for God and Man -- Transforming Matter -- Light and Time -- Types of Change -- Earth, Fire, Water, and Air -- Improving Knowledge -- Improvers and Engineers -- Raising Fire -- Fabrics of Change -- Artisans, Philosophes, and Entrepreneurs -- Airs and Lightning -- Mobility -- Messages -- Engineering Emerges -- Stuff, Reality, and Dreams -- The Improvement of Violence -- Learning -- Dynamics -- Land and Life -- Scale -- The Corruption of Improvement -- Networks -- Improvement's End.
0262062623 9780262062626
2006050722
Technological innovations--History
Technology and civilization
Civilization, Western
Intellectual life
T15 / .F774 2007
303.483