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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Derry, T. K. (Thomas Kingston), 1905- Short history of technology from the earliest times to A.D. 1900. New York, Oxford University Press, 1961 [c1960] (OCoLC)596371376 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
T K Derry; Trevor Illtyd Williams |
| ISBN: | 0198812310 9780198812319 |
| OCLC Number: | 384782 |
| Description: | xviii, 782 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Part I: from the earliest times to A.D.1750 -- General historical survey -- The production of food -- Production for domestic needs -- The extraction and working of metals -- Building construction -- Transport -- Communication and record -- Early sources of power -- The beginnings of the chemical industry -- Part II: the industrial revolution to A.D.1900 -- Historical survey (1750-1900) -- The steam-engine -- Machine-tools and their products -- Modern transport -- Building construction: requirements of urban communities -- Building construction: requirements for transport -- Coal and the metals -- New materials: coal-gas, petroleum, and rubber -- The rise of the modern chemical industry -- Textiles -- Pottery and glass -- The internal combustion engine -- The electrical industry -- Printing, photography, and the cinema -- Agriculture and food -- Epilogue: technological and general history. |
| Responsibility: | by T.K. Derry and Trevor I. Williams. |
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