A Social History of Engineering
London: Faber and Faber, 1961.
First Edition. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". 378pp. Stated First Edition. Mild rubbing, toning, and wear to covers, corners, and edges of price-clipped dust jacket. Rubbing and toning to edges of blue cloth over boards. Gentle bumps to corners of boards. Stamp from the Department of Physiological Hygene to front free endpaper. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is firm, sound, and square. A presentable first edition of this 1961 social history of engineering.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
"A Social History of Engineering" shows how social and economic conditions in each age have precipitated advances in engineering. There are, in short, economic, political, and philosophical implications in changing technologies. While the book begins with the Stone Age, the Greeks, and the Romans, the bulk of the volume concentrates on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. "A Social History of Engineering" reflects Professor Armytage's special subject area interests, namely nineteenth-century industrial society, radical and socialist movements, the history of professional organization, and the study of higher and technical education.(Publisher). Good / good. Item #14312
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