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Lewis Mumford. V. MINING , MUNITIONS , AND WAR 1 : Sixteenth century cannon foundry , showing fortification and cannons in ac- tion in the background . The heavy de- mand on the mining industries that fol- lowed the introduction of ...
Lewis Mumford. V. MINING , MUNITIONS , AND WAR 1 : Sixteenth century cannon foundry , showing fortification and cannons in ac- tion in the background . The heavy de- mand on the mining industries that fol- lowed the introduction of ...
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... sixteenth century , although the Italian engi- neers , including Leonardo himself , who is usually given credit for the turret windmill , contributed their share to the machine . In this development the Low Countries were almost as much ...
... sixteenth century , although the Italian engi- neers , including Leonardo himself , who is usually given credit for the turret windmill , contributed their share to the machine . In this development the Low Countries were almost as much ...
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... sixteenth century the windows of the dwelling began to imitate in breadth and openness those of the public buildings , wooden beams carried the load across a space impossible for ordinary stone or brick con- struction to span : in ...
... sixteenth century the windows of the dwelling began to imitate in breadth and openness those of the public buildings , wooden beams carried the load across a space impossible for ordinary stone or brick con- struction to span : in ...
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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