• Medientyp: Buch
  • Titel: The mantra of efficiency : from waterwheel to social control
  • Enthält: Introduction: The varieties of efficiencyStatic and dynamic efficiency: the waterwheels of Smeaton and the Franklin Institute -- The effects of control: Gérard-Joseph Christian and perfected machines -- Economy of nature: Darwin, Marshall, and the costs of efficiency -- Balance and transformation: technical and popular efficiency in the Progressive Era United States -- An island of mechanical predictability: efficient worker seating in late Weimar Germany -- Pride in efficiency: the dispute over Time on the cross -- Global efficiency: an enduring industrial value in a postindustrial world -- Conclusion: The future of efficiency -- Notes -- Bibliographic essay -- Index.
  • Beteiligte: Alexander, Jennifer Karns [VerfasserIn]
  • Erschienen: Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008
  • Umfang: XVII, 233 S.; graph. Darst; 24 cm
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN: 0801886937; 9780801886935
  • RVK-Notation: ZG 8700 : Allgemeine Darstellungen mit umfassender Thematik
    QC 344 : Technischer Fortschritt und Anpassung
  • Schlagwörter: Technische Innovation > Effizienz > Geschichte
    Technologie
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  • Anmerkungen: Includes bibliographical references (S. [171]-199) and index. - Formerly CIP
  • Beschreibung: Introduction. The varieties of efficiency -- Static and dynamic efficiency: the waterwheels of Smeaton and the Franklin institute -- The effects of control: Grard-Joseph Christian and perfected machines -- Economy of nature: Darwin, Marshall, and the costs of efficiency -- Balance and transformation: technical and popular efficiency in the Progressive Era US -- An island of mechanical predictability: efficient worker seating in late Weimar Germany -- Pride in efficiency: the dispute over time on the cross -- Global efficiency: an enduring industrial value in a post-industrial world -- Conclusion: the future of efficiency -- Notes -- Bibliographic essay -- Index

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