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Finalist, 2008 Henry Paolucci / Walter Bagehot Book Award given by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Why does technology change over time, how does it change, and what difference does it make? In this sweeping, ambitious look at a thousand years of Western experience, Robert Friedel... read more
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- James Watt
- Diderot
- Arkwright
- Leonardo
- Beauvais
- Franklin
- Daguerre
- George Stephenson
- Savery
- Maudslay
- William
- Boulton
- Bushnell
- Crompton
- Oliver Evans
- Bell
- Suger
- Aelfric
- Thomas Edison
- Caxton
- Otto
- Brunelleschi
- Charles
- Trevithick
- Carnot
- Wedgwood
- Kennedy
- Robert
- Darby
- Leyden
- Francesco Di Giorgio
- Maxwell
- John Smeaton
- Hofmann
- Anderson
- Lenoir
- Bacon
- Parkes
- Gribeauval
- Humphry Davy
- Harrison
- Bramah
- Adam Smith
- Napoleon
- Aiken
Setting & Locations edit
- Europe
- New England
- United States
- Great Britain
- London
- North America
- Paris
- Germany
- High Middle Ages
- Venice
- New York
- Birmingham
- Netherlands
- Glasgow
- Sweden
- Italy
- Washington
- Philadelphia
- Virginia
- Guernica
- Russia
- Atlantic
- China
- Berlin
- California
- Scotland
- Spain
- Portsmouth
- Baltimore
- Asia
- Florence
- Soviet Union
- Coalbrookdale
- Highland Park
- Rome
- India
- Chicago
- Pennsylvania
- Manchester
- New Jersey
- Greece
- Munich
- Michigan
- Saxony
- Colorado
Authors & Contributors edit
- Robert D. Friedel (Author)
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- Dewey: 303.483
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- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Sociology › Culture
- Books › Professional & Technical › Engineering › Industrial, Manufacturing & Operational Systems
- Books › Professional & Technical › Engineering › Patents & Inventions
- Books › Science › Technology › History of Technology
- Books › History › Ancient › Early Civilization
- Books › History › World
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