Engines of Our Ingenuity An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture

Name: Engines of Our Ingenuity An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture
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ISBN: 9780195167313

ISBN-10: 0195167317

ISBN-13: 9780195167313

Edition: N/A

Authors: John H. Lienhard

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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…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/4/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 9.09" wide x 5.98" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Preface



Mirrored by Our Machines



God, the Master Craftsman



Looking Inside the Inventive Mind



The Common Place



Science Marries into the Family



Industrial Revolution



Inventing America



Taking Flight



Attitudes and Technological Change



War and Other Ways to Kill People



Major Landmarks



Systems, Design, and Production



Heroic Materialism



Who Got There First



Ever-Present Dangers



Technology and Literature



Being There


Correlation of the Text with the Radio Program


Notes


Index