From cathedrals to star wars, Arnold Pacey looks at the
interaction of technologies and society over the last thousand
years and uses that survey to argue for a more humane form of
future technological development. The second edition of The Maze of
Ingenuity concentrates on Europe and North America and incorporates
recent insights from the history and sociology of technology. A new
series of chapters extends Pacey's discussion of the role of ideas
and ideals in technology in the period since the industrial
revolution. Arnold Pacey has taught the history of science and
technology at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and
Technology. Work on this new edition has been carried on in
parallel with tutorial teaching for an Open University course
entitled "Technology and Change."Contents: The Cathedral Builders:
European Technical Achievement between 1100 and 1280. A Century of
Invention: 1250-1350. Mathematics and the Arts: 1450-1600. The
Practical Arts and the Scientific Revolution. Social Ideals in
Technical Change: German Miners and English Puritans, 1450-1650.
The State and Technical Progress: 1660-1770. Technology in the
Industrial Revolution. Conflicting Ideals in Engineering: America
and Britain, 1790-1870. Institutionalizing Technical Ideals,
1820-1920. Idealistic Trends in Twentieth-Century Technology.
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