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100	1		_aFriedel, Robert _91621490
245	1	2	_aA Culture of improvement : _btechnology and the western millennium / _cRobert Friedel
260			_aCambridge : _bThe MIT Press, _c2007
300			_ax, 588 p. 22 cm
504			_aFriedel 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: improved weaponry makes warfare ever more deadly and the drive for improving human beings can lead to eugenics and even genocide.
650		0	_aCivilization, Western. Intellectual life. _91621491
650		0	_aTechnological innovations _xHistory _92785747
650		0	_aTechnology and civilization _92785748
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