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Mechanization takes command: a contribution to anonymous history

S. Giedion
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  • Contents

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  • 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
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AQ 1.2 (Summer 1949): 186-190 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0678%28194922%291%3A2%3C186%3AMTCACT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-O
JEH 9.1 (May 1949): 85-87 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-0507%28194905%299%3A1%3C85%3AMTCACT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-T
AJS 54.4 (Jan. 1949): 382-383 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9602%28194901%2954%3A4%3C382%3AMTC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W
AHR 54.1 (Oct. 1948): 91-93 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28194810%2954%3A1%3C91%3AMTCACT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-L
ASR 13.5 (Oct. 1948): 641-642 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-1224%28194810%2913%3A5%3C641%3AMTCACT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-1
JAAC 7.3 (Mar. 1949): 259-260 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8529%28194903%297%3A3%3C259%3AMTCACT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K
TC 43.2 (2002): 374-389 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/technology_and_culture/v043/43.2molella.html
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Published: 1948
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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