Technics and CivilizationHarcourt, Brace, 1934 - 495 pages |
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... clocks , and by 1370 a well - designed " modern " clock had been built by Heinrich von Wyck at Paris . Meanwhile , bell towers had come into existence , and the new clocks , if they did not have , till the fourteenth century , a dial ...
... clocks , and by 1370 a well - designed " modern " clock had been built by Heinrich von Wyck at Paris . Meanwhile , bell towers had come into existence , and the new clocks , if they did not have , till the fourteenth century , a dial ...
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... clock or the images of a moving picture , organic time moves in only one direction - through the cycle of birth , growth , development , decay , and death - and the past that is already dead remains present in the future that has still ...
... clock or the images of a moving picture , organic time moves in only one direction - through the cycle of birth , growth , development , decay , and death - and the past that is already dead remains present in the future that has still ...
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... clock . By the end of the eotechnic phase , the domestic clock had become a common part of the household equipment , except among the poorer industrial workers and the peasants ; and the watch was one of the chief articles of ornament ...
... clock . By the end of the eotechnic phase , the domestic clock had become a common part of the household equipment , except among the poorer industrial workers and the peasants ; and the watch was one of the chief articles of ornament ...
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