Main entry:

Usher, Abbott Payson, 1883-1965.

Title & Author:

A history of mechanical inventions / Abbott Payson Usher.

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Publication:

[Cambridge] : Harvard University Press, 1954.

Description:

xi, 450 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-443) and index.
The place of technology in economic history -- Historical analysis of social change -- The particular system of events -- The emergence of novelty in thought and action -- The early history of the pure applied mechanical sciences -- The mechanical equipment of pre-christian antiquity -- The development of water wheels and windmills: 150 B.C. -- A.D. 1500 -- Water clocks and mechanical clocks: 16 B.C. -- A.D. 1500 -- Leonardo da Vinci: engineer and inventor -- The invention of printing -- Machinery of the textile industries: 100-1800 -- The development of clocks and watches into instruments of precision: 1500-1800 -- The production and application of power: 1500-1830 -- Machine tools and quality production: 1450-1850 -- The production and distribution of power since 1832.
Also issued online.

Summary:

For other editions, see Author Catalog.

ISBN:

0674398505
9780674398504

Subject:

Inventions History.
Machinery History.
Technology history
Inventions Histoire.
Machines Histoire.
Inventions.
Machinery.
Technology History.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Mechanical inventions

Holdings:

Location: Library main 86425
Call No.: ID:86-B16927
Status: Available