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 economic effective efficiency effort eighteenth century electric elements Encyclopédie energy England environment eotechnic period esthetic Europe existence experience exploitation fact factory finally forms function glass handicraft horsepower human important improvements increased instruments interests invention inventor iron J. A. Hobson labor limited living London machine manufacture means mechanical ment merely metal methods mining modern technics motion movement nature neolithic neotechnic phase nineteenth century operations organic original paleotechnic period paleotechnic phase perhaps phonograph physical picture population possible primitive production profit railroad rational régime regions Roger Bacon scientific seventeenth century sixteenth century social society standard steam engine tended textile tion utilitarian utilization values water turbine whole wood worker York