A Short History Of Technology From The Earliest Times To Ad 1900

Author : Thomas Kingston Derry
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486274721
Total Pages : 817 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Technology from the Earliest Times to A.D. 1900 written by Thomas Kingston Derry and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1960-01-01 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly readable, profusely illustrated survey relates technology to history of every age: food production, metalworking, mining, steam power, transportation, electricity, and much more. 354 black-and-white illustrations. 1961 edition.

Author : Thomas K. Derry
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Total Pages : 782 pages
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Author : Thomas Kingston Derry
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Total Pages : 782 pages
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Download or read book A Short History of Technology. From the Earliest Times to A. D. 1900. By T. K. Derry and Trevor I[lltyd] Williams.[Illustr.] written by Thomas Kingston Derry and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Author : Thomas K Derry
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ISBN 13 : 9780195001426
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Download or read book Short History of Technology written by Thomas K Derry and published by . This book was released on 1985-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Basalla
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316101584
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Technology written by George Basalla and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-02-24 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Daniel R. Headrick Professor of Social Sciences and History Roosevelt University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199713669
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology: A World History written by Daniel R. Headrick Professor of Social Sciences and History Roosevelt University and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009-02-25 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment. Technology: A World History offers an illuminating backdrop to our present moment--a brilliant history of invention around the globe. Historian Daniel R. Headrick ranges from the Stone Age and the beginnings of agriculture to the Industrial Revolution and the electronic revolution of the recent past. In tracing the growing power of humans over nature through increasingly powerful innovations, he compares the evolution of technology in different parts of the world, providing a much broader account than is found in other histories of technology. We also discover how small changes sometimes have dramatic results--how, for instance, the stirrup revolutionized war and gave the Mongols a deadly advantage over the Chinese. And how the nailed horseshoe was a pivotal breakthrough for western farmers. Enlivened with many illustrations, Technology offers a fascinating look at the spread of inventions around the world, both as boons for humanity and as weapons of destruction.

Author : James Edward McClellan
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801883590
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science and Technology in World History written by James Edward McClellan and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Author : Trevor Illtyd Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Twentieth-century Technology C. 1900-c. 1950 written by Trevor Illtyd Williams and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1982 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the scientific developments and technological advances in a variety of fields, including electronics, energy, aeronautics, and computers, in the light of social, economic, and political trends.

Author : Charles Joseph Singer
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781258215583
Total Pages : 930 pages
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Download or read book A History of Technology V1 written by Charles Joseph Singer and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With E. Jaffe, R. H. G. Thomson And J. M. Donaldson. In Eight Volumes. Volume 1, From Early Times To The Fall Of Ancient Empires; Volume 2, The Mediterranean Civilizations And The Middle Ages, Ca. 700 B. C. To A. D. 1500; Volume 3, From The Renaissance To The Industrial Revolution, 1500-1750; Volume 4, The Industrial Revolution 1750-1850; Volume 5, The Late Nineteenth Century, 1850-1900; Volume 6-7, The Twentieth Century, 1900-1950; Volume 8, Consolidated Indexes.