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The Shock Of The Old

Paperback • 2008 • English

The Shock Of The Old: Technology and Global History since 1900

By Edgerton, David

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About the book

Standard histories of technology give tired accounts of the usual inventions, inventors, and dates, framing technology as the inevitable march of progress. They split history into ages - electrification, motorisation, and computerisation - and rarely ask whether anyone bothered to use these inventions at the time. Shock of the Old is not one of those histories. Instead of asking when a technology came to be, David Edgerton asks when the average person started using it. He reveals that decades- a...Show more

Mechanical engineering

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9781861973061

Publisher

Profile Books

Published year

2008

Language

English

Original title

The Shock Of The Old

Format

Paperback

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