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Victorian Technology - Invention, Innovation, and the Rise of the Machine

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Herbert Sussman is professor emeritus of English at Northeastern University, Boston, MA, and is currently an adjunct faculty member at The New School, New York, NY. Klappentext An enlightening history of 19th-century technology, focusing on the connections between invention and cultural values. Victorian Technology: Invention, Innovation, and the Rise of the Machine captures the extraordinary surge of energy and invention that catapulted 19th-century England into the position of the world's first industrialized nation. It was an astonishing transformation, one that shaped-and was shaped by-the values of the Victorian era, and that laid the groundwork for the consumer-based society in which we currently live.Filled with vivid details and fascinating insights into the impact of the Industrial Revolution on peoples' lives, Victorian Technology locates the forerunners of the defining technologies of the our time in 19th-century England: the computer, the Internet, mass transit, and mass communication. Readers will encounter the innovative thinkers and entrepreneurs behind history-making breakthroughs in communications (the transatlantic cable, wireless communication), mass production (the integrated factory), transportation (railroads, gliders, automobiles), and more. Zusammenfassung An enlightening history of 19th-century technology! focusing on the connections between invention and cultural values.

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Authors Herbert Sussman, Sussman Herbert
Publisher Greenwood Press
 
Languages English
Age Recommendation ages 7 to 17
Product format Hardback
Released 01.07.2009
 
EAN 9780275991692
ISBN 978-0-275-99169-2
No. of pages 240
Series Victorian Life and Times
Victorian Life and Times
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)
Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias

Technology, Science: general issues, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / General, SCIENCE / General, Technology: general issues

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