Readings in Engineering History

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Uploaded by on Nov 27, 2006

The history of technology

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  • Economic historians also have a lot of useful insights to offer as to why inventions did not always translate into applied technology. Two truly excellent books I can recommend are:

    Landes, D.S. (1969), The unbound Prometheus: technological change and industrial development in Western Europe from 1750 to the present, Cambridge University Press, London

    Mokyr, J. (1992), The Lever of Riches, Oxford University Press, Oxford

  • Thanks, I'll see into getting a copy of those.

  • I know why they didn't have industry. One word: Government.

  • I think that is substantially true, and I actually didn't come to understand that point until about a year ago. I had thought govenrment control was the invention of Marxism, but central planning is the history of every society on earth...

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  • ...and man has never, developed a compatible-motor technology in recognition of the supremecy and self-sufficiency of the mInd of Man. It is true, that Ayn Rand Identified it but noone has ever designed it. Until now.

  • pretty neet, will have to pick some of those up.

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