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A Culture of Improvement: Technology and the Western Millennium. By Robert Friedel. MIT Press.

Submitted by iw on May 24, 2007 – 8:51 amNo Comment
A Culture of Improvement: Technology and the Western Millennium. By Robert Friedel. MIT Press.

The most comprehensive attempt to tell the story of western technology in many years, engagingly written and lavishly illustrated, A Culture of Improvement documents the ways in which the drive for improvement has shaped our modern world.

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