TY  - BOOK
AU  - Friedel,Robert D.
TI  - A culture of improvement: technology and the Western millennium 
SN  - 0262062623
AV  - T15 .F774 2007
U1  - 303.483 22
PY  - 2007///]
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - History
KW  - Technology and civilization
KW  - Civilization, Western
KW  - Intellectual life
N1  - 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
ER  -