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Könyv Engines of Our Ingenuity John H. Lienhard

Engines of Our Ingenuity

An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture

Szerző: John H. Lienhard
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Puha kötésű
Kiadó: Oxford University Press Inc
Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten
Küldés 10-18 napon belül
10 176 Ft
Millions of people have listened to John H. Lienhard's radio program "The Engines of Our Ingenuity."...

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Szerző
John H. Lienhard
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Puha kötésű
Kiadva
2003
oldal
272
EAN
9780195167313
ISBN
0195167317
Enbook ID
04516086
Kiadó
Oxford University Press Inc
Súly
436
Méretek
228 x 155 x 19

Teljes leírás

Millions of people have listened to John H. Lienhard's radio program "The Engines of Our Ingenuity." In this fascinating book, Lienhard gathers his reflections on the nature of technology, culture, and human inventiveness. The book brims with insightful observations. Lienhard writes that the history of technology is a history of us-we are the machines we create. Thus farming dramatically changed the rhythms of human life and redirected history. War seldom fuels invention-radar, jets, and the digital computer all emerged before World War II began. And the medieval Church was a driving force behind the growth of Western technology-Cistercian monasteries were virtual factories, whose water wheels cut wood, forged iron, and crushed olives. Lienhard illustrates his themes through inventors, mathematicians, and engineers-with stories of the canoe, the DC-3, the Hoover Dam, the diode, and the sewing machine. We gain new insight as to who we are, through the familiar machines and technologies that are central to our lives.

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