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Mechanization takes command: a contribution to anonymous history
Giedion, S. (Sigfried), 1888-1968.
Year: 1948.
Publisher:  Oxford University Press. 
© Siegfried Giedion
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Frontmatter
PART I ANONYMOUS HISTORY
ANONYMOUS HISTORY
PROCEDURE
PART II SPRINGS OF MECHANIZATION
MOVEMENT
THE CREED OF PROGRESS
ASPECTS OF MECHANIZATION
PART III MEANS OF MECHANIZATION
THE HAND
STANDARDIZATION AND INTERCHANGEABILITY
MECHANIZATION OF A COMPLICATED CRAFT
THE ASSEMBLY LINE AND SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT
PART IV MECHANIZATION ENCOUNTERS THE ORGANIC
MECHANIZATION AND THE SOIL: AGRICULTURE
MECHANIZATION AND ORGANIC SUBSTANCE: BREAD
MECHANIZATION AND DEATH: MEAT
MECHANIZATION AND GROWTH
PART V 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
PART VI MECHANIZATION ENCOUNTERS THE HOUSEHOLD
MECHANIZATION ENCOUNTERS THE HOUSEHOLD
MECHANICAL COMFORT IN THE HOUSEHOLD
REFRIGERATION MECHANIZED
STREAMLINING AND FULL MECHANIZATION
PART VII THE MECHANIZATION OF THE BATH
THE MECHANIZATION OF THE BATH
IN CONCLUSION
MAN IN EQUIPOISE
List of Illustrations
Index
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Title: Mechanization takes command : a contribution to anonymous history Siegfried Giedion.
Author: Giedion, S. (Sigfried), 1888-1968
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Source Version: Mechanization takes command : a contribution to anonymous history Siegfried Giedion
Giedion, S. (Sigfried), 1888-1968
New York: Oxford University Press, 1948.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.01139
Subject Headings: • Industrial arts -- History
• Inventions
• Mechanization
• Technology -- Philosophy
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