A social history of engineering.

Main entry:

Armytage, W. H. G.

Title & Author:

A social history of engineering.

Publication:

London, Faber and Faber [1961]

Description:

378 pages plates, portraits, facsimile, tables 23 cm.

Series:

Technology today and tomorrow

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-353).

Summary:

Historical study of engineering and the social implications of its evolution - includes examination of technological changes and industrial development, showing how they affected and were affected by social change, and covers the progress of technical education, the introduction of automation and the use of computers and nuclear energy, the impact of wars on industrial research and on technological research and the resulting innovations, etc. Bibliography pp. 335 to 353.

Resources:
Table of contents

Subject:

Engineering History.
Technology and civilization.
Industries History.
Ingénierie Histoire.
Technologie et civilisation.
Industrie Histoire.
industrial history.
Engineering
Technik
Ingenieurs.
Sociale aspecten.
Techniek.
Sociale geschiedenis (wetenschap)
engineering.
history.
social implication.
automation.
computer.
industrial development.
industrial research.
innovation.
nuclear energy.
social change.
technical education.
technological change.
war.
Engineering Social aspects.
Technique et civilisation.
conséquences sociales.
histoire.
ingénierie.
automatisation.
changement social.
changement technologique.
développement industriel.
énergie nucléaire.
enseignement technique.
guerre.
ordinateur.
recherche industrielle.
consecuencias sociales.
historia.
ingeniería.
automatización.
cambio social.
cambio tecnológico.
computadora.
desarrollo industrial.
energía nuclear.
enseñanza técnica.
guerra.
innovación.
investigación industrial.

Form/genre:

History
bibliography.
bibliographie.
bibliografía.

Added entries:

Technology today and tomorrow.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282337
Call No.: BIB 219755
Status: Available

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