Men, Machines and History
Author : Sam Lilley
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 39,43 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Industrial arts
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Author : Sam Lilley
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 39,43 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Industrial arts
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Author : Michael Adas
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 19,19 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801497605
This new edition of what has become a standard account of Western expansion and technological dominance includes a new preface by the author that discusses how subsequent developments in gender and race studies, as well as global technology and politics, enter into conversation with his original arguments.
Author : Ruth Oldenziel
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,23 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789053563816
A pioneering study of the relations between gender and technology.
Author : Sam Lilley
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,6 MB
Release : 1966
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Author : Frank E. Comparato
Publisher : Harrisburg, Pa : Stackpole Company
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,50 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Design
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Author : Audrey Watters
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 40,74 MB
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 026254606X
How ed tech was born: Twentieth-century teaching machines--from Sidney Pressey's mechanized test-giver to B. F. Skinner's behaviorist bell-ringing box. Contrary to popular belief, ed tech did not begin with videos on the internet. The idea of technology that would allow students to "go at their own pace" did not originate in Silicon Valley. In Teaching Machines, education writer Audrey Watters offers a lively history of predigital educational technology, from Sidney Pressey's mechanized positive-reinforcement provider to B. F. Skinner's behaviorist bell-ringing box. Watters shows that these machines and the pedagogy that accompanied them sprang from ideas--bite-sized content, individualized instruction--that had legs and were later picked up by textbook publishers and early advocates for computerized learning. Watters pays particular attention to the role of the media--newspapers, magazines, television, and film--in shaping people's perceptions of teaching machines as well as the psychological theories underpinning them. She considers these machines in the context of education reform, the political reverberations of Sputnik, and the rise of the testing and textbook industries. She chronicles Skinner's attempts to bring his teaching machines to market, culminating in the famous behaviorist's efforts to launch Didak 101, the "pre-verbal" machine that taught spelling. (Alternate names proposed by Skinner include "Autodidak," "Instructomat," and "Autostructor.") Telling these somewhat cautionary tales, Watters challenges what she calls "the teleology of ed tech"--the idea that not only is computerized education inevitable, but technological progress is the sole driver of events.
Author : Stephen Budiansky
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 18,67 MB
Release : 2005-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1101118407
No single human invention has transformed war more than the airplane—not even the atomic bomb. Even before the Wright Brothers’ first flight, predictions abounded of the devastating and terrible consequences this new invention would have as an engine of war. Soaring over the battlefield, the airplane became an unstoppable force that left no spot on earth safe from attack. Drawing on combat memoirs, letters, diaries, archival records, museum collections, and eyewitness accounts by the men who fought—and the men who developed the breakthrough inventions and concepts—acclaimed author Stephen Budiansky weaves a vivid and dramatic account of the airplane’s revolutionary transformation of modern warfare. On the web: http://www.budiansky.com/
Author : Tyler Hall
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 11,18 MB
Release : 2015-04-01
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ISBN : 9781495145162
Author : Sam Lilley
Publisher :
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 20,25 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Industrial arts
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Author : Samuel Lilley
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 16,34 MB
Release : 1946
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