America by design : science, technology, and the rise of corporate capitalism /
by David F. Noble.
Bok Engelsk 1977 · Electronic books
| Utgitt | New York : : Knopf, , 1977.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (xxvi, 384 p. )
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | Forward / Christopher Lasch -- Part one: Technology as social production -- Industry, education, and engineers -- The wedding of science to the useful arts -- I. The rise of science-based industry -- The wedding of science to the useful arts -- II. The development of technical education -- The wedding of science to the useful arts -- III. The emergence of the professional engineer -- Preservation through change -- Corporate engineers and social reform -- Part two: Corporate reform as conscious social production -- Laying the foundation -- scientific and industrial standardization -- The corporation as inventor -- patent-law reform and patent monopoly -- Science for industry -- the organization of industrial and university research -- Technology as people -- the industrial process of higher education -- I. -- Technology as people -- the industrial process of higher education -- II. -- A technology of social production -- modern management and the expansion of engineering -- Epilogue.
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| ISBN | 0-307-82849-2. - 1-299-11952-2
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