Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change
By (Author) Rosalind Williams
MIT Press Ltd
MIT Press
11th August 2003
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Education
303.4830973
Winner of
Physical Properties
Paperback
270
Width 137mm, Height 203mm, Spine 17mm
286g
Description
When Warren Kendall Lewis left Spring Garden Farm in Delaware in 1901 to enter MIT, he had no idea that he was becoming part of a profession that would bring untold good to his country but would also contribute to the death of his family's farm. In this book written a century later, Professor Lewis's granddaughter, uses her grandfather's and her own experience to make sense of the rapidly changing role of technology in contemporary life.
Reviews
We have Williams to thank for a thoughtful, cogent, and historically well-informed analysis of the engineering profession. Karl Stephan, IEEE
Author Bio
Rosalind Williams is Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science and Technology.
