Technics and CivilizationHarcourt, Brace, 1934 - 495 pages |
À l'intérieur du livre
Résultats 1-3 sur 25
Page 122
... transportation . The two dominant cities , one at the beginning and the other at the end of the eotechnic period were Venice and Amsterdam : both of them built upon piles , both of them served by a network of canals . The canal itself ...
... transportation . The two dominant cities , one at the beginning and the other at the end of the eotechnic period were Venice and Amsterdam : both of them built upon piles , both of them served by a network of canals . The canal itself ...
Page 237
... transportation lines remained what it had been in the past . All the mistakes that had been made in the railroad build- ing period were made again with this new type of locomotive . Main highways cut through the center of towns ...
... transportation lines remained what it had been in the past . All the mistakes that had been made in the railroad build- ing period were made again with this new type of locomotive . Main highways cut through the center of towns ...
Page 238
... transportation has come out during the last generation in still another relationship : the geographic distribution of the population . Both the motor car and the airplane have a special advantage over the ordinary steam loco- motives ...
... transportation has come out during the last generation in still another relationship : the geographic distribution of the population . Both the motor car and the airplane have a special advantage over the ordinary steam loco- motives ...
Table des matières
Space Distance Movement | 3 |
The Influence of Capitalism | 4 |
From Fable to Fact | 5 |
Droits d'auteur | |
82 autres sections non affichées
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Expressions et termes fréquents
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 economy effective efficiency effort eighteenth century electric elements energy England environment esthetic Europe existence experience exploitation fact factory finally forms function glass habits handicraft horsepower human important improvements increased industry instruments interests invention inventor iron J. A. Hobson labor limited living machine manufacture means mechanical ment merely metal methods mining modern technics motion movement nature neolithic neotechnic phase nineteenth century object operations organic original paleotechnic period paleotechnic phase perhaps phonograph physical picture population possible primitive production railroad rational régime regions Roger Bacon routine scientific seventeenth century sixteenth century social society standard steam engine tended textile tion transportation utilitarian utilization water turbine whole wood worker