Technics and CivilizationHarcourt, Brace, 1934 - 495 pages |
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... advances of electricity and metallurgy from 1870 onward were the advances that took place in chemistry . Indeed , the emergence of the chemical industries after 1870 is one of the definite signs of the neotechnic order , since the advance ...
... advances of electricity and metallurgy from 1870 onward were the advances that took place in chemistry . Indeed , the emergence of the chemical industries after 1870 is one of the definite signs of the neotechnic order , since the advance ...
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... advance . Whereas the earlier mechanical world could be represented by the game of checkers , in which a similar ... advances along special lines , and equally extravagant retardations along other lines , with a disastrous lack of ...
... advance . Whereas the earlier mechanical world could be represented by the game of checkers , in which a similar ... advances along special lines , and equally extravagant retardations along other lines , with a disastrous lack of ...
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... advance , which seemed to the nineteenth century to embody the essential character- istics of the new economy , is rapidly coming to an end . We are now faced with the period of consolidation and systematic assimilation . Western ...
... advance , which seemed to the nineteenth century to embody the essential character- istics of the new economy , is rapidly coming to an end . We are now faced with the period of consolidation and systematic assimilation . Western ...
Table des matières
CULTURAL PREPARATION | 9 |
AGENTS OF MECHANIZATION | 60 |
THE EOTECHNIC PHASE | 107 |
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A. N. Whitehead abstract achieve advance agriculture arts automatic basis became become blast furnace capitalism capitalist civilization classes clock coal complete consumption created culture Deutsches Museum devices duction economic effective efficiency effort eighteenth century electric elements Encyclopédie energy England environment eotechnic period esthetic Europe existence experience exploitation fact factory finally forms function glass handicraft horsepower human important improvements increased instruments interests invention inventor iron J. A. Hobson labor limited living London machine manufacture means mechanical ment merely metal methods mining modern technics motion movement nature neolithic neotechnic phase nineteenth century operations organic original paleotechnic period paleotechnic phase perhaps phonograph physical picture population possible primitive production profit railroad rational régime regions Roger Bacon scientific seventeenth century sixteenth century social society standard steam engine tended textile tion utilitarian utilization values water turbine whole wood worker York