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Mechanization takes command: a contribution to anonymous history
Contents
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Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- PART I ANONYMOUS HISTORY
- ANONYMOUS HISTORY page 2
- PROCEDURE page 4
- PART II SPRINGS OF MECHANIZATION
- MOVEMENT page 14
- THE CREED OF PROGRESS page 30
- ASPECTS OF MECHANIZATION page 31
- PART III MEANS OF MECHANIZATION
- THE HAND page 46
- STANDARDIZATION AND INTERCHANGEABILITY page 47
- MECHANIZATION OF A COMPLICATED CRAFT page 51
- THE ASSEMBLY LINE AND SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT page 77
- PART IV MECHANIZATION ENCOUNTERS THE ORGANIC page 129
- MECHANIZATION AND THE SOIL: AGRICULTURE page 130
- MECHANIZATION AND ORGANIC SUBSTANCE: BREAD page 169
- MECHANIZATION AND DEATH: MEAT page 209
- MECHANIZATION AND GROWTH page 246
- PART V MECHANIZATION ENCOUNTERS HUMAN SURROUNDINGS
- MEDIEVAL COMFORT page 258
- COMFORT IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY page 305
- THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: MECHANIZATION AND RULING TASTE page 329
- THE CONSTITUENT FURNITURE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY page 389
- THE CONSTITUENT FURNITURE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY page 482
- PART VI MECHANIZATION ENCOUNTERS THE HOUSEHOLD
- MECHANIZATION ENCOUNTERS THE HOUSEHOLD page 512
- MECHANICAL COMFORT IN THE HOUSEHOLD page 548
- REFRIGERATION MECHANIZED page 596
- STREAMLINING AND FULL MECHANIZATION page 607
- PART VII THE MECHANIZATION OF THE BATH
- THE MECHANIZATION OF THE BATH page 628
- IN CONCLUSION
- MAN IN EQUIPOISE page 714
- List of Illustrations page 725
- Index page 735
Reviews
- AQ: 1.2 (Summer 1949): 186-190
- JEH: 9.1 (May 1949): 85-87
- AJS: 54.4 (Jan. 1949): 382-383
- AHR: 54.1 (Oct. 1948): 91-93
- ASR: 13.5 (Oct. 1948): 641-642
- JAAC: 7.3 (Mar. 1949): 259-260
- TC: 43.2 (2002): 374-389
Catalog record
| Title | Mechanization takes command : a contribution to anonymous history / Siegfried Giedion. |
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| Author | Giedion, S. (Sigfried), 1888-1968 |
| Extent | 600dpi TIFF G4 page images |
| E-Distribution Information | MPublishing, University of Michigan Library Ann Arbor, Michigan Permission must be received for any subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Please contact info@hebook.org for more information. |
| 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.01139.0001.001 |
| Subject Headings | • Industrial arts -- History • Technology -- Philosophy • Inventions • Mechanization |
| Note | Electronic access restricted; authentication may be required |
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