[DOWNLOAD] A Culture of Improvement: Technology and the Western Millennium (MIT Press)
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| #595710 in Books | The MIT Press | 2010-02-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.00 x8.00l,2.19 | File Name: 026251401X | 608 pages |
||4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| The March to the Future|By Mike3746|Several years ago, the education channel in our town had a show called "Connections" in which the story was told of how common things of the modern world came to be through the most fantastic journey of inventions. This book encompasses just about everything we have today and tells how it all came to be. But, the author goes to the extreme o|||By virtue of its range, quality, length (nearly 600 pages) and comprehensiveness, Robert Friedel's book will go to the top of the list as the standard text for an introductory Charlemagne-to-George-Bush course on the history of technology. (Times Higher E
Why does technology change over time, how does it change, and what difference does it make? In this sweeping, ambitious look at a thousand years of Western experience, Robert Friedel argues that technological change comes largely through the pursuit of improvement -- the deep-rooted belief that things could be done in a better way. What Friedel calls the "culture of improvement" is manifested every day in the ways people carry out their tasks in life -- from tilling ...
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