Download or read book Men Machines and History The Story of Tools and Machines in Relation to Social Progress Revised and Enlarged Edition written by Sam Lilley and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Men Machines and History written by Samuel Lilley and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Men Machines and History written by Sam Lilley and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Men machines and history written by Samuel Lilley and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Men machines and history written by Samuel Lilley and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Men Machine and History written by Samuel Lilley and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Men Machines and History written by Sam Lilley and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Men Machines and History of Tools and Machines in Relation to Social Progress written by S. Lilley and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Men Machines and History of Tools and Machines in Relation to Social Progress written by S. Lilleys and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Men Machines and History the Story of Tools and Machines in Relation to Social Problems written by S. Lilley and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Men Machines and Modern Times 50th Anniversary Edition written by Elting E. Morison and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging look at how we have learned to live with innovation and new technologies through history. People have had trouble adapting to new technology ever since (perhaps) the inventor of the wheel had to explain that a wheelbarrow could carry more than a person. This little book by a celebrated MIT professor—the fiftieth anniversary edition of a classic—describes how we learn to live and work with innovation. Elting Morison considers, among other things, the three stages of users' resistance to change: ignoring it; rational rebuttal; and name-calling. He recounts the illustrative anecdote of the World War II artillerymen who stood still to hold the horses despite the fact that the guns were now hitched to trucks—reassuring those of us who have trouble with a new interface or a software upgrade that we are not the first to encounter such problems. Morison offers an entertaining series of historical accounts to highlight his major theme: the nature of technological change and society's reaction to that change. He begins with resistance to innovation in the U.S. Navy following an officer's discovery of a more accurate way to fire a gun at sea; continues with thoughts about bureaucracy, paperwork, and card files; touches on rumble seats, the ghost in Hamlet, and computers; tells the strange history of a new model steamship in the 1860s; and describes the development of the Bessemer steel process. Each instance teaches a lesson about the more profound and current problem of how to organize and manage systems of ideas, energies, and machinery so that it will conform to the human dimension.
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Download or read book The Machine in America written by Carroll W. Pursell and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the medieval farm implements brought by the first colonists to the invisible links of the Internet, the history of technology in America is a history of our society as well. Arguing that "the tools and processes we use are a part of our lives, not simply instruments of our purpose," historian Carroll Pursell analyzes technology's impact upon the lives of women and men, their work, politics, and social relationships--and in turn, their influence upon technological development. Pursell shows how both the idea of progress and the mechanical means to harness the forces of nature developed and changed as they were brought from the Old World to the New. He describes the ways in which American industrial and agricultural technology began to take on a distinctive shape as it adapted and extended the technical base of the industrial revolution. He discusses the innovation of an American System of Manufactures and the mechanization of agriculture; new systems of mining, lumbering, and farming, which helped conquer and define the West; and the technologies that shaped the rise of cities. And he shows how the export of technology helped to foster American hegemony both in theWestern Hemisphere and elsewhere in the world. Pursell also argues that American technology has created a social hegemony, not only over the way we live but also over how we evaluate that life. He shows that such developments as scientific management techniques and industrial research changed Americans' lives as much as the mass production of such durable consumer goods as radios and automobiles. In many ways, he concludes, today's military-industrial complex is the legacy of the intense cooperation betweenscience and technology during World War II.
