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" A culture of improvement : "
Robert Friedel
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BL
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626217
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| Main Entry
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Friedel, Robert D., (Robert Douglas),1950-
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A culture of improvement : : technology and the Western millennium /\ Robert Friedel
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x, 588 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 24 cm
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0262062623
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: 9780262062626
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [545]-568) and index
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| Contents
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Technology and improvement -- Plows and horses -- Power -- Buildings for God and man -- Transforming matter -- Light and time -- Types of change -- Earth, fire, water, and air -- Improving knowledge -- Improvers and engineers -- Raising fire -- Fabrics of change -- Artisans, philosophes, and entrepreneurs -- Airs and lightning -- Mobility -- Messages -- Engineering emerges -- Stuff, reality, and dreams -- The improvement of violence -- Learning -- Dynamics -- Land and life -- Scale -- The corruption of improvement -- Networks -- Improvement's end
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Technological innovations-- History
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Technology and civilization
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Civilization, Western
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Intellectual life
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| Dewey Classification
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303.48/3
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T15.F774 2007
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