- Civilization, History, Industrial arts, Inventions
'Technics and Civilization' first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934 -- before television, the personal computer, and the Internet.
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- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Lewis Mumford
- First published
- 1934
- Pages
- 495
- Publisher
- Routledge and Kegan Paul, Routledge, Routledge & Kegan Paul
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780156882545
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“During the last century the automatic or semi-automatic machine has come to occupy a large place in our daily routine; and we have tended to attribute to the physical instrument itself the whole complex of habits and methods that created it and accompanied”
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