Author: Donald Stephen Lowell Cardwell
Publisher: Fontana Press
ISBN: 9780006861768
Category : Technology
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
This is a history of technology, of the transformation of the discoveries and inventions of pure science into the useful applications that make everybody's lives easier. In this book, the author recreates the sheer ingenuity which conquered the obstacles that time, space and motion placed before man, harnessing powers latent in water, steam, gas, oil, light, charged electrons, chemicals and wind.
The Fontana History of Technology
Fontana History of Technology
Author: Caldwell Marsh Staff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780002153584
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780002153584
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
History of Technology
Author: Ian Inkster
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135001902X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The technical problems confronting different societies and periods and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. It deals with the history of technical discovery and change and explores the relationship of technology to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic - showing how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135001902X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The technical problems confronting different societies and periods and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. It deals with the history of technical discovery and change and explores the relationship of technology to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic - showing how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.
History of Technology Volume 22
Author: Graham Hollister-Short
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350018937
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them, form the concern of this annual collection of essays. History of Technology, Volume 22 deals with the history of technical discovery and change and explores the relation of technology to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic - and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.Published under the auspices of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350018937
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them, form the concern of this annual collection of essays. History of Technology, Volume 22 deals with the history of technical discovery and change and explores the relation of technology to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic - and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.Published under the auspices of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London
The Fontana History of Chemistry
Author: William Hodson Brock
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780006861737
Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
'The Fontana History of Chemistry', which draws extensively on both the author's own original research and that of other scholars world-wide, is conceived as a work of synthesis for the 1990s. Nothing like it has been attempted in decades. Beginning with
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780006861737
Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
'The Fontana History of Chemistry', which draws extensively on both the author's own original research and that of other scholars world-wide, is conceived as a work of synthesis for the 1990s. Nothing like it has been attempted in decades. Beginning with
History of Technology Volume 29
Author: Ian Inkster
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350019119
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The common question from the western point of view is of the sort; why did China lose its early leadership of productive technologies to Europe during the early modern period? Answers to this seemingly clear enquiry vary from general cultural inwardness to the interferences of imperial governance. This collection surveys such theories but alters the issue by raising the notion that Chinese technologies did not so much fail as move along a path different from that of Europe. Our second collection on the Mindful Hand, also shifts common ground by querying and modifying common views of the links between knowledge and technique in early-modern European development. Scientific or related knowledge was not brought to technique as a socio-cultural gift from an educated elite to the working man. Rather, educated gents, practitioners, instrument makers, craftsfolk and technicians of all kinds intermingled both socially and in terms of the recognition of technical problems as well as in the assemblage of the mental, commercial and cognitive resources required to pursue innovative production projects.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350019119
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The common question from the western point of view is of the sort; why did China lose its early leadership of productive technologies to Europe during the early modern period? Answers to this seemingly clear enquiry vary from general cultural inwardness to the interferences of imperial governance. This collection surveys such theories but alters the issue by raising the notion that Chinese technologies did not so much fail as move along a path different from that of Europe. Our second collection on the Mindful Hand, also shifts common ground by querying and modifying common views of the links between knowledge and technique in early-modern European development. Scientific or related knowledge was not brought to technique as a socio-cultural gift from an educated elite to the working man. Rather, educated gents, practitioners, instrument makers, craftsfolk and technicians of all kinds intermingled both socially and in terms of the recognition of technical problems as well as in the assemblage of the mental, commercial and cognitive resources required to pursue innovative production projects.
A History of Western Technology
Author: Friedrich Klemm
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
A Short history of technology
Productivity, Technology and Economic Growth
Author: Bart van Ark
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475731612
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Productivity, Technology and Economic Growth presents a selection of recent research advances on long term economic growth. While the contributions stem from both economic history, macro- and microeconomics and the economics of innovation, all papers depart from a common viewpoint: the key factor behind long term growth is productivity, and the latter is primarily driven by technological change. Most contributions show implicitly or explicitly that technological change is at least partly dependent on growth itself. Furthermore, technology appears to interact strongly with investment in physical and human capital as well as with changes in historical, political and institutional settings. Together these papers are an up-to-date account of the remarkable convergence in theoretical and empirical work on productivity and growth over the past decades. The first part deals with the characteristics of growth regimes over longer periods, ranging from 20 years to two centuries. The next four chapters study the determinants of productivity growth and, in some cases, productivity slowdown during the last quarter of the twentieth century. The final five chapters focus on the role of technology and innovation as the key determinants of growth. Productivity, Technology and Economic Growth is, therefore, a welcome collection for academic scholars and graduate students in economics, history and related social sciences as well as for policy makers.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475731612
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Productivity, Technology and Economic Growth presents a selection of recent research advances on long term economic growth. While the contributions stem from both economic history, macro- and microeconomics and the economics of innovation, all papers depart from a common viewpoint: the key factor behind long term growth is productivity, and the latter is primarily driven by technological change. Most contributions show implicitly or explicitly that technological change is at least partly dependent on growth itself. Furthermore, technology appears to interact strongly with investment in physical and human capital as well as with changes in historical, political and institutional settings. Together these papers are an up-to-date account of the remarkable convergence in theoretical and empirical work on productivity and growth over the past decades. The first part deals with the characteristics of growth regimes over longer periods, ranging from 20 years to two centuries. The next four chapters study the determinants of productivity growth and, in some cases, productivity slowdown during the last quarter of the twentieth century. The final five chapters focus on the role of technology and innovation as the key determinants of growth. Productivity, Technology and Economic Growth is, therefore, a welcome collection for academic scholars and graduate students in economics, history and related social sciences as well as for policy makers.
Governing Military Technologies in the 21st Century: Ethics and Operations
Author: R. O'Meara
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137449179
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
Governing Military Technologies in the 21st Century is one of the first books to tackle the big five technological threats all in one place: nanotech, robotics, cyberwar, human enhancement, and, non-lethal weapons, weaving a historical, legal, and sociopolitical fabric into a discussion of their development, deployment, and, potential regulation.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137449179
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
Governing Military Technologies in the 21st Century is one of the first books to tackle the big five technological threats all in one place: nanotech, robotics, cyberwar, human enhancement, and, non-lethal weapons, weaving a historical, legal, and sociopolitical fabric into a discussion of their development, deployment, and, potential regulation.