Technics and Civilization

A. N. Whitehead abstract achieve advance agriculture arts automatic basis became become blast furnace capitalism capitalist civilization classes clock coal complete consumption created culture Deutsches Museum devices duction economy effective efficiency effort eighteenth century electric elements energy England environment esthetic Europe existence experience exploitation fact factory finally forms function glass habits handicraft horsepower human important improvements increased industry instruments interests invention inventor iron J. A. Hobson labor limited living machine manufacture means mechanical ment merely metal methods mining modern technics motion movement nature neolithic neotechnic phase nineteenth century object operations organic original paleotechnic period paleotechnic phase perhaps phonograph physical picture population possible primitive production railroad rational régime regions Roger Bacon routine scientific seventeenth century sixteenth century social society standard steam engine tended textile tion transportation utilitarian utilization water turbine whole wood worker