 | Education - 1829 - 592 pages
...such an undertaking, I have adopted the general name of Technology, a word sufficiently expressive, which is found in some of the older dictionaries,...processes, and nomenclatures of the more conspicuous arts, particularlj those which involve applications of science, and which may be considered useful, by promoting... | |
 | Commerce - 1847 - 670 pages
...Board of Education. The work embraces an account of the principles, processes, and nomenclatures i,f the more conspicuous arts ; particularly those which Involve applications of science, and which are considered awful, by promoting the benefit of society, together with the emoluments of those who... | |
 | George Edward Ellis - 1880 - 204 pages
...his volume, says, " I have adopted the general name of technology, a word sufficiently expressive, which is found in some of the older dictionaries,...the literature of practical men at the present day." Dr. Bigelow was to have the privilege, as the last great public service of his life, of aiding in inaugurating... | |
 | Daniel J. Czitrom - Social Science - 1982 - 276 pages
...professor Jacob Bigelow reintroduced the term technology into the language, by which he meant to describe "the principles, processes, and nomenclatures of the...conspicuous arts, particularly those which involve application of science, and which may be considered useful, by promoting the benefit of society" (Elements... | |
 | Carl Mitcham - Philosophy - 1994 - 410 pages
...title — that he has adopted a word "found in some of the older dictionaries" in order to refer to "the principles, processes, and nomenclatures of the...particularly those which involve applications of science." Philosophy of Technology versus Philosophia Technes The tension between the words techne and "technology"... | |
 | the late Henry Sidgwick - Philosophy - 1998 - 253 pages
...such an undertaking, I have adopted the general name of Technology, a word sufficiently expressive, which is found in some of the older dictionaries,...practical men at the present day. Under this title is attempted to include an account ... of the principles, processes, and nomenclatures of the more... | |
 | Keekok Lee - Philosophy - 1999 - 310 pages
...this, Jacob Bigelow in the preface to his book Elements of Technology (1831) used the word to refer to "the principles, processes, and nomenclatures of the...those which involve applications of science." And in the German language, Christian Wolff, in his Preliminary Discourse on Philosophy in General, as... | |
 | Arien Mack - Science - 2001 - 414 pages
...such an undertaking, / have adopted the general name of Technology, a word sufficiently expressive, which is found in some of the older dictionaries,...practical men at the present day. Under this title ... [I will attempt] to include . . . the principles, processes, and nomenclatures of the more conspicuous... | |
 | David Lindsay - Inventions - 2005 - 419 pages
...such an undertaking, I have adopted the general name of Technology, a word sufficiently expressive, which is found in some of the older dictionaries,...the literature of practical men at the present day." And so a new word passed into the English lexicon: technology, from the Greek tekhne, meaning "skill."... | |
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I have adopted the general name of Technology, a word sufficiently expressive, which is found in some of the older dictionaries, and is beginning to be revived in the literature of practical men at the present day. Under this title is attempted to include... 