Skip to main content Smithsonian Institution

A culture of improvement : technology and the Western millennium / Robert Friedel

Catalog Data

Author:
Friedel, Robert D (Robert Douglas) 1950-  Search this
Physical description:
x, 588 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
2007
C2007
Contents:
Technology and improvement -- Plows and horses -- Power -- Buildings for God and man -- Transforming matter -- Light and time -- Types of change -- Earth, fire, water, and air -- Improving knowledge -- Improvers and engineers -- Raising fire -- Fabrics of change -- Artisans, philosophes, and entrepreneurs -- Airs and lightning -- Mobility -- Messages -- Engineering emerges -- Stuff, reality, and dreams -- The improvement of violence -- Learning -- Dynamics -- Land and life -- Scale -- The corruption of improvement -- Networks -- Improvement's end
Topic:
Technological innovations--History  Search this
Technology and civilization  Search this
Civilization, Western  Search this
Intellectual life  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_837150