The Invention Of Improvement

Author : Paul Slack
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199645914
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Improvement written by Paul Slack and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of improvement - gradual and cumulative betterment - was something new in 17th century England. It became commonplace to assert that improvements in agriculture, industry, commerce, and social welfare would bring infinite prosperity and happiness. The word improvement was itself new, and since it had no equivalent in other languages, it gave the English a distinctive culture of improvement which they took with them to Ireland, Scotland, and America. Slack explains the political, intellectual, and economic circumstances which allowed notions of improvement to take root.

Author : Paul Slack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191757754
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Improvement: Information and Material Progress in Seventeenth-century England written by Paul Slack and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of improvement - gradual and cumulative betterment - was something new in 17th century England. It became commonplace to assert that improvements in agriculture, industry, commerce, and social welfare would bring infinite prosperity and happiness. The word improvement was itself new, and since it had no equivalent in other languages, it gave the English a distinctive culture of improvement which they took with them to Ireland, Scotland, and America. Slack explains the political, intellectual, and economic circumstances which allowed notions of improvement to take root.

Author : Robert Friedel
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026251401X
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Culture of Improvement written by Robert Friedel and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010-02-26 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How technological change in the West has been driven by the pursuit of improvement: a history of technology, from plows and printing presses to penicillin, the atomic bomb, and the computer. Why does technology change over time, how does it change, and what difference does it make? In this sweeping, ambitious look at a thousand years of Western experience, Robert Friedel argues that technological change comes largely through the pursuit of improvement—the deep-rooted belief that things could be done in a better way. What Friedel calls the "culture of improvement" is manifested every day in the ways people carry out their tasks in life—from tilling fields and raising children to waging war. Improvements can be ephemeral or lasting, and one person's improvement may not always be viewed as such by others. Friedel stresses the social processes by which we define what improvements are and decide which improvements will last and which will not. These processes, he emphasizes, have created both winners and losers in history. Friedel presents a series of narratives of Western technology that begin in the eleventh century and stretch into the twenty-first. Familiar figures from the history of invention are joined by others—the Italian preacher who described the first eyeglasses, the dairywomen displaced from their control over cheesemaking, and the little-known engineer who first suggested a grand tower to Gustav Eiffel. Friedel traces technology from the plow and the printing press to the internal combustion engine, the transistor, and the space shuttle. Friedel also reminds us that faith in improvement can sometimes have horrific consequences, as improved weaponry makes warfare ever more deadly and the drive for improving human beings can lead to eugenics and even genocide. The most comprehensive attempt to tell the story of Western technology in many years, engagingly written and lavishly illustrated, A Culture of Improvement documents the ways in which the drive for improvement has shaped our modern world.

Author : Isaac Watts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Improvement of the Mind written by Isaac Watts and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Warde
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107151147
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Sustainability written by Paul Warde and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking study of how sustainability became a social and political problem, and how to think about it today.

Author : Great Britain. Patent Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2428 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Commissioners of Patents' Journal written by Great Britain. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 2428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Great Britain
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1666 pages
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Download or read book The London Gazette written by Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 1666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John L. DuBois
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Invention and Development of the Radiosonde written by John L. DuBois and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The London Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 4
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1550 pages
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Download or read book Improvement of the Jury System written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 4 and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 1550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: