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Atmospheric Flight in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover, 2000 ed.)
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Atmospheric Flight in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover, 2000 ed.)
Series: Archimedes, 3
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All technologies differ from one another. They are as varied as
humanity's interaction with the physical world. Even people
attempting to do the same thing produce multiple technologies. For
example, John H. White discovered more than l 1000 patents in the
19th century for locomotive smokestacks. Yet all technologies are
processes by which humans seek to control their physical
environment and bend nature to their purposes. All technologies are
alike. The tension between likeness and difference runs through
this collection of papers. All focus on atmospheric flight, a
twentieth-century phenomenon. But they approach the topic from
different disciplinary perspectives. They ask disparate questions.
And they work from distinct agendas. Collectively they help to
explain what is different about aviation - how it differs from
other technologies and how flight itself has varied from one time
and place to another. The importance of this topic is manifest.
Flight is one of the defining technologies of the twentieth
century. Jay David Bolter argues in Turing's Man that certain
technologies in certain ages have had the power not only to
transform society but also to shape the way in which people
understand their relationship with the physical world. "A defining
technology," says Bolter, "resembles a magnifying glass, which
collects and focuses seemingly disparate ideas in a culture into
one bright, sometimes piercing ray." 2 Flight has done that for the
twentieth century.
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