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25 : Wind Power The invention of the Greek watermill (third century B.C.?) and
the Persian invention of the windmill (eighth century B.C.?) not merely served
agriculture and land reclamation, but improved mining technology. The
widespread ...
25 : Wind Power The invention of the Greek watermill (third century B.C.?) and
the Persian invention of the windmill (eighth century B.C.?) not merely served
agriculture and land reclamation, but improved mining technology. The
widespread ...
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And eventually that result was brought about, after the sixteenth century, by the '
invention of invention,' which gave to the machine the primacy that had once
belonged to the craftsman-artist, and which reduced the personality to just those
...
And eventually that result was brought about, after the sixteenth century, by the '
invention of invention,' which gave to the machine the primacy that had once
belonged to the craftsman-artist, and which reduced the personality to just those
...
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Admittedly, then, the gains in both productivity and creativity were uneven: yet the
total result down to the sixteenth century, which marks a turning point, remains
impressive. Thanks to this emerging economy, which combined handicraft skills ...
Admittedly, then, the gains in both productivity and creativity were uneven: yet the
total result down to the sixteenth century, which marks a turning point, remains
impressive. Thanks to this emerging economy, which combined handicraft skills ...
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Contents
PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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| Title | The Myth of the Machine: Technics and human development Volume 1 of The Myth of the Machine, Lewis Mumford The Myth of the Machine; Technics and Human Development, Lewis Mumford |
| Author | Lewis Mumford |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 2 Jun 2008 |
| Length | 342 pages |
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