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Mechanization takes command : a contribution to anonymous history / Sigfried Giedion ; afterword by Stanislaus von Moos

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013Description: vii, 785 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 081669043X
  • 9780816690435
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 609 23
Partial contents:
ANONYMOUS HISTORY -- SPRINGS OF MECHANIZATION. MOVEMENT -- THE CREED OF PROGRESS -- ASPECTS OF MECHANIZATION -- MEANS OF MECHANIZATION. THE HAND ; STANDARDIZATION AND INTERCHANGEABILITY -- MECHANIZATION OF A COMPLICATED CRAFT -- THE ASSEMBLY LINE AND THE SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT -- MECHANIZATION ENCOUNTERS THE ORGANIC. MECHANIZATION AND THE SOIL: AGRICULTURE -- MECHANIZATION AND ORGANIC SUBSTANCE: BREAD -- MECHANIZATION AND DEATH: MEAT -- MECHANIZATION AND GROWTH -- MECHANIZATION ENCOUNTERS HUMAN SURROUNDINGS. MEDIEVAL COMFORT -- COMFORT IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY -- THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: MECHANIZATION AND RULING TASTE -- THE CONSTITUENT FURNITURE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- THE CONSTITUENT FURNITURE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY -- MECHANIZATION ENCOUNTERS THE HOUSEHOLD -- MECHANICAL COMFORT IN THE HOUSEHOLD -- REFRIGERATION MECHANIZED -- STREAMLINING AND FULL MECHANIZATION -- THE MECHANIZATION OF THE BATH.
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"First published in 1948 by Oxford University Press."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ANONYMOUS HISTORY -- SPRINGS OF MECHANIZATION. MOVEMENT -- THE CREED OF PROGRESS -- ASPECTS OF MECHANIZATION -- MEANS OF MECHANIZATION. THE HAND ; STANDARDIZATION AND INTERCHANGEABILITY -- MECHANIZATION OF A COMPLICATED CRAFT -- THE ASSEMBLY LINE AND THE SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT -- MECHANIZATION ENCOUNTERS THE ORGANIC. MECHANIZATION AND THE SOIL: AGRICULTURE -- MECHANIZATION AND ORGANIC SUBSTANCE: BREAD -- MECHANIZATION AND DEATH: MEAT -- MECHANIZATION AND GROWTH -- MECHANIZATION ENCOUNTERS HUMAN SURROUNDINGS. MEDIEVAL COMFORT -- COMFORT IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY -- THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: MECHANIZATION AND RULING TASTE -- THE CONSTITUENT FURNITURE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- THE CONSTITUENT FURNITURE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY -- MECHANIZATION ENCOUNTERS THE HOUSEHOLD -- MECHANICAL COMFORT IN THE HOUSEHOLD -- REFRIGERATION MECHANIZED -- STREAMLINING AND FULL MECHANIZATION -- THE MECHANIZATION OF THE BATH.