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Inventions -- History --- Technology -- History

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Mediaeval technology history --- Middle ages technology

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Ce livre répond à une exigence pressante. L'évolution de nos sociétés désormais est largement conditionnée par la technique. Comment assurer la maîtrise de ce développement sans en connaître l'histoire? Pour mettre à la portée de tous l'histoire des techniques, discipline récente et active, le présent ouvrage adopte une structure originale. Renonçant à une impossible exhaustivité, il propose, pour chacune des six grandes périodes d'un découpage temporel, d'abord une vision synthétique, puis un développement concret par la présentation d'un objet et d'un homme emblématiques de leur temps.

Technology --- Technologie --- History --- Histoire --- history --- History. --- Technology - history --- Technique

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In his book, pending between history and sociology, on engineers in thirteen countries of the western part of Europe, Professor Rolf Torstendahl approaches the development from around 1850 up to the present situation from different angles. - One examines the educational patterns and the author shows how widely different types of formation of engineers existed in Britain, France and Germany in the early period. They were paradigmatic for other countries. Differences remain but patterns have gradually become similar. - From another angle the author makes professional organisations of engineers a main object of study, and they vary from alumni associations to powerful lobby organisations. - A third approach in the book is to examine engineers versus sociological theories of professionalism on the one hand and theories of managerialism on the other. In the last chapter the author also discusses topics like technocracy and the responsibility of engineers.

Technology—History. --- History of Technology. --- Engineering --- Societies, etc.

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From the unexpected origins of mobile phones, microwave ovens and plastic packaging to the links between Barbie and US missile systems and why Niue, Polynesia is the phone-sex capital of the world, this is a fascinating examination of how much of modern life can be directly traced to one of three questionable aspects of human activity - war, porn, and the fast food industry.

Technological innovations -- Social aspects. --- Technology -- History. --- Technology -- Social aspects.