Best of
Technology
1967
Technics and Human Development (The Myth of the Machine, Vol 1)
Lewis Mumford - 1967
He shows how tools developed because of significant parallel inventions in ritual, language, and social organization. “It is a stimulating volume, informed both with an enormous range of knowledge and empathetic spirit” (Eliot Fremont-Smith, New York Times). Index; photographs.
The Search For Speed Under Sail, 1700 1855
Howard Irving Chapelle - 1967
Sailing ships in the 18th and 19th centuries.