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The Maze of Ingenuity: Ideas and Idealism in the Development of Technology - 2nd Edition
by Arnold Pacey
Binding: Paperback, 2 edition, 318 pages
Publisher: The MIT Press
List Price: USD $27.00
Weight: 100
Dimension: H: 0.8 x L: 8.9 x W: 5.7 inches
ISBN 10: 026266075X
ISBN 13: 9780262660754
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<P>From cathedrals to star wars, Arnold Pacey looks at the interaction of technologies and society over the last thousand years and uses that survey to argue for a more humane form of future technological development. The second edition of The Maze of Ingenuity concentrates on Europe and North America and incorporates recent insights from the history and sociology of technology. A new series of chapters extends Pacey's discussion of the role of ideas and ideals in technology in the period since the industrial revolution. Arnold Pacey has taught the history of science and technology at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. Work on this new edition has been carried on in parallel with tutorial teaching for an Open University course entitled 'Technology and Change.' <P>Contents: The Cathedral Builders: European Technical Achievement between 1100 and 1280. A Century of Invention: 1250 1350. Mathematics and the Arts: 1450 1600. The Practical Arts and the Scientific Revolution. Social Ideals in Technical Change: German Miners and English Puritans, 1450 1650. The State and Technical Progress: 1660 1770. Technology in the Industrial Revolution. Conflicting Ideals in Engineering: America and Britain, 1790 1870. Institutionalizing Technical Ideals, 1820 1920. Idealistic Trends in Twentieth Century Technology.

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