Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
Book Description
Vols. for 1919- include an Annual statistical issue (title varies).
Automotive Industries
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
Book Description
Vols. for 1919- include an Annual statistical issue (title varies).
Engineers for Change
Author: Matthew WisnioskiPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262304260
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
An account of conflicts within engineering in the 1960s that helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history. In the late 1960s an eclectic group of engineers joined the antiwar and civil rights activists of the time in agitating for change. The engineers were fighting to remake their profession, challenging their fellow engineers to embrace a more humane vision of technology. In Engineers for Change, Matthew Wisnioski offers an account of this conflict within engineering, linking it to deep-seated assumptions about technology and American life. The postwar period in America saw a near-utopian belief in technology's beneficence. Beginning in the mid-1960s, however, society—influenced by the antitechnology writings of such thinkers as Jacques Ellul and Lewis Mumford—began to view technology in a more negative light. Engineers themselves were seen as conformist organization men propping up the military-industrial complex. A dissident minority of engineers offered critiques of their profession that appropriated concepts from technology's critics. These dissidents were criticized in turn by conservatives who regarded them as countercultural Luddites. And yet, as Wisnioski shows, the radical minority spurred the professional elite to promote a new understanding of technology as a rapidly accelerating force that our institutions are ill-equipped to handle. The negative consequences of technology spring from its very nature—and not from engineering's failures. “Sociotechnologists” were recruited to help society adjust to its technology. Wisnioski argues that in responding to the challenges posed by critics within their profession, engineers in the 1960s helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history.
The Automobile Trade Directory
Author: United States Navy Aviation Mechanics' Training System for Engine Maintenance Force
Author: Motor Age
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Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1228
Book Description
The Automobile
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Automobile industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 858
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Electrical Trades Journal
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Electric industry workers
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia
Author: Andrew Lee DykePublisher:
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Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 1282
Book Description
Automobile Engineering
Author: Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
Author: United States. Patent OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 1274
Book Description