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Title

Mechanization takes command : a contribution to anonymous history / Siegfried Giedion ; afterword by Stanislaus von Moos.

Author

Giedion, S. (Sigfried), 1888-1968.

Publication

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.

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Description

785 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subject

• Industrial arts > History
• Mechanization > History
• Inventions > History
• Industrial arts
• Inventions
• Mechanization

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Note

• "First published in 1948 by Oxford University Press."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Anonymous history. Anonymous history ; Procedure ; Toward a typological approach ; Dates -- Springs of mechanization. Movement. Movement : the classical and medieval attitude ; The fourteenth century, first to represent movement ; The nineteenth century and the capturing of movement ; The creed of progress ; Aspects of mechanization ; Invention and the miraculous ; The miraculous and the utilitarian ; The mechanizing of production ; Profile of the decades -- Means of mechanization. The hand ; Standardization and interchangeability ; Mechanization of a complicated craft ; the craft of the locksmith ; from handicraft to mechanical production ; Archetypes ; The assembly line and the scientific management ; The continuous production line in the eighteenth century ; The beginnings of the assembly line ; The appearance of scientific management ; Scientific management and contemporary art ; Forerunners, successors? ; The assembly line in the twentieth century 1913-14 --^
• Mechanization encounters the organic. Mechanization and the soil : agriculture. The farmer in structural change ; The rediscovery of nature in the eighteenth century ; The Middle West and mechanized agriculture ; The carriers of mechanization ; Agriculture in full mechanization ; Mechanization and organic substance : bread. The mechanization of kneading ; The mechanization of baking ; The mechanization of bread making ; The human aspect : bread under mechanization ; Mechanization and death : meat. Centralization and handicraft ; The mechanizing of meat production in America ; Mechanization and growth. Seed ; The egg ; Mechanical fertilization --^
• Mechanization encounters human surroundings. Medieval comfort ; The Middle Ages and mechanization ; The changing conception of comfort ; Posture in the Middle Ages; The chair makes its appearance, c. 1490 ; The nomadic furniture of the Middle Ages ; The chest as universal furniture ; Gothic joinery ; Movability in Gothic furniture ; Creation of intimate surroundings : differentiation into types ; Medieval comfort, the comfort of space ; Comfort in the eighteenth century. France : Rococo and nature ; England: form and mechanism ; The nineteenth century : mechanization and ruling taste. The beginnings of ruling taste : Empire style ; The mechanization of adornment ; The reign of the upholsterer ; The constituent furniture of the nineteenth century.^
• Patent furniture and ruling taste ; Posture in the nineteenth century ; Convertibility ; Railroads and patent furniture ; The nomadic furniture of the nineteenth century ; The constituent furniture and its significance ; The constituent furniture of the twentieth century. Furniture and its shapers ; The shaping of the types ; The diffusion -- Mechanization encounters the household. The feminist movement and the rational household ; Organization of the work process ; Mechanization of the hearth ; Mechanical comfort in the household. Mechanization of the smaller tools around 1860 ; The light power unit ; The mechanization of cleaning : laundering ; The mechanization of cleaning : ironing ; The mechanization of cleaning : the dishwashing machine ; The mechanization of cleaning : the mechanical garbage disposer ; The mechanization of cleaning : the vacuum cleaner ; Refrigeration mechanized. Natural ice : mechanical refrigeration after 1800 : home refrigeration mechanized : frozen foods --^
• Streamlining and full mechanization. The industrial designer : the origins of streamline style ; Organization of the work process, c. 1935 -- The mechanization of the bath. Types of regeneration ; The steam bath as a social institution ; The decay of regeneration ; The bath in the nineteenth century ; The bathroom becomes mechanized ; Regeneration a gauge of culture -- Man in equipoise ; On the illusion of progress ; The ending of mechanistic conceptions ; Dynamic equilibrium.

ISBN

• 9780816690435 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 081669043X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2013040462

OCLC

• 841370699
• SCSB-10960522

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library