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. A Social History of Engineering reflects Professor Armytage's special subject area interests, namely nineteenth-century industrial society, radical and socialist movements, the history of professional organization, and the study of higher and technical education.
- ISBN10 0262511711
- ISBN13 9780262511711
- Publish Date 13 March 2003
- Publish Status Transferred
- Publish Country US
- Publisher MIT Press Ltd
- Imprint MIT Press
- Edition second edition
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 410
- Language English
- URL http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262511711