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Languages : fr
Pages : 0
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Etude hydrologique du littoral belge envisagée au point de vue de l'alimentation en eau potable. Communication faite à l'Association des ingénieurs sortis de l'Ecole de Liége (section de Liége), le 14 février 1903
Author: L'Esprit de L'Escalier
Author: Dominique / D. Bonten /Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781494798741
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Languages : en
Pages : 140
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L'esprit de L'escalier is a French term for when you think of what you should have said after it is too late. This is a collection of poetry; These are things you wish you said.
The Evolution of Technology
Author: George BasallaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316101584
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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This book presents an evolutionary theory of technological change based upon recent scholarship in the history of technology and upon relevant material drawn from economic history and anthropology. It challenges the popular notion that technology advances by the efforts of a few heroic individuals who produce a series of revolutionary inventions owing little or nothing to the technological past. Therefore, the book's argument is shaped by analogies taken selectively from the theory of organic evolution, and not from the theory and practice of political revolution. Three themes appear, and reappear with variations, throughout the study. The first is diversity: an acknowledgment of the vast numbers of different kinds of made things (artifacts) that have long been available to humanity; the second is necessity: the belief that humans are driven to invent new artifacts in order to meet basic biological requirements such as food, shelter, and defense; and the third is technological evolution: an organic analogy that explains both the emergence of novel artifacts and their subsequent selection by society for incorporation into its material life without invoking either biological necessity or technological progress. Although the book is not intended to provide a strict chronological account of the development of technology, historical examples - including many of the major achievements of Western technology: the waterwheel, the printing press, the steam engine, automobiles and trucks, and the transistor - are used extensively to support its theoretical framework. The Evolution of Techology will be of interest to all readers seeking to learn how and why technology changes, including both students and specialists in the history of technology and science.
Technology in Western Civilization: Technology in the twentieth century
Author: Melvin KranzbergPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
A complete and well-planned account of the history of technology in Western civilization from pre-historic man to the present age of the computer.
An Encyclopaedia of the History of Technology
Author: Ian McNeilPublisher:
ISBN: 9780415147927
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
Book Description
Available for the first time in paperback, this volume includes twenty-two chapters by international experts covering the entire history of technology from humankind's earliest use of stone tools to the exploration of space. Written clearly and without unnecessary jargon, each chapter traces the development of its subject from earliest times to the present day, stressing the social context and its place in scientific thought. * Usefully drawn with over 150 tables, drawings and photographs * Two comprehensive indexes of names and subjects * Essential reading for teachers and students in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Industrial History and Archaeology.
A History of Technology: The Mediterranean civilizations and the Middle Ages, c. 700 B.C. to c. 1500 A.D
Author: Charles SingerPublisher:
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Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 910
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