A Social History of Engineering, second edition

by W. H. G. Armytage and W.H.G. Armytage

Book Overview

How social and economic conditions have precipitated advances in engineering. A Social History of Engineering shows how social and economic conditions in each age have precipitated advances in engineering. There are, in short, economic, political, and philosophical implications in changing technologies. While the book begins with the Stone Age, the Greeks, and the Romans, the bulk of the volume concentrates on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262511711
• ISBN13: 9780262511711
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher