The Maze of Ingenuity

Ideas and Idealism in the Development of Technology

Arnold Pacey

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MIT Press
23 January 1992

History of ideas; Anthropology; Technology: general issues

Series: MIT Press

From cathedrals to star wars, Arnold Pacey looks at the interaction of technologies and society over the last thousand years and uses that survey to argue for a more humane form of future technological development. The second edition of The Maze of Ingenuity concentrates on Europe and North America and incorporates recent insights from the history and sociology of technology. A new series of chapters extends Pacey's discussion of the role of ideas and ideals in technology in the period since the industrial revolution.

Contents The Cathedral Builders- European Technical Achievement between 1100 and 1280 . A Century of Invention- 1250-1350 . Mathematics and the Arts- 1450-1600 . The Practical Arts and the Scientific Revolution . Social Ideals in Technical Change- German Miners and English Puritans, 1450-1650 . The State and Technical Progress- 1660-1770 . Technology in the Industrial Revolution . Conflicting Ideals in Engineering- America and Britain, 1790-1870 . Institutionalizing Technical Ideals, 1820-1920 . Idealistic Trends in Twentieth-Century Technology

By: Arnold Pacey
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: second edition
Dimensions: Height: 226mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780262660754
ISBN 10: 026266075X
Series: MIT Press
Pages: 318
Publication Date: 23 January 1992
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , A / AS level , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Arnold Pacey is an Associate Lecturer at the Open University, Britain. He is the author of The Culture of Technology (MIT Press, 1983), Technology and World Civilization (MIT Press, 1991), and The Maze of Ingenuity, second edition (MIT Press, 1992).

Reviews for The Maze of Ingenuity: Ideas and Idealism in the Development of Technology

Here is a book that should immediately be put into paperback and placed in the hands of undergraduates everywhere and in all disciplines. Its subject matter ranges from the cathedral builders of the Middle Ages to the prophets of systems analysis in our own century. Yet Dr. Pacey is nowhere superficial (review of first edition) Nature