Title The maze of ingenuity : ideas and idealism in the development of technology / Arnold Pacey

Edition Second edition Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1992] ©1992

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MELB	609 Pac/Moi 1992		AVAILABLE

Description x, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents The cathedral builders: European technical achievement between 1100 and 1280 -- A century of invention: 1250-1350 -- Mathematics and the arts: 1450-1600 -- The practical arts and the scientific revolution -- Social ideals in technical change: German miners and English Puritans, 1450-1650 -- The state and technical progress: 1660-1770 -- Technology in the industrial revolution -- Conflicting ideals in engineering: America and Britain, 1790-1870 -- Institutionalizing technical ideals, 1820-1920 -- Idealistic trends in twentieth-century technology Analysis Technology History Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-291) and index SUBJECT Information series. Technology http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84707263 -- Social aspects. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00002758 Subject Technology -- History. Technology -- Social aspects. LC no. 91027441 ISBN 0262161281 026266075X (paperback)

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