Technology in Western Civilization: The emergence of modern industrial society, earliest times to 1900Melvin Kranzberg, Carroll W. Pursell Oxford University Press, 1967 - 802 pages A complete and well-planned account of the history of technology in Western civilization from pre-historic man to the present age of the computer. |
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1 The Importance of Technology in Human Affairs | 3 |
3 Mesopotamian and Egyptian Technology | 26 |
4 The Classical Civilizations | 47 |
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