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Shock Of The Old

David Edgerton

Standard histories of technology give tired accounts of the usual inventions, inventors, and dates, framing technology as the inevitable march of progress. They split history into ages - electrification, motorisation, and computerisation - and rarely ask whether anyone bothered to use these inventions at the time. Shock of the Old is not one of those histories.Shock of the Old forces us to reassess the significance of old inventions such as corrugated iron and sewing machines and rethink the relative importance we place on the invention of something new, its application, and its widespread adoption. It challenges the idea that we live in an era of ever increasing change and, interweaving political, economic and cultural history, teaches us to think critically about technology.

  • Classification : Popular Science
  • Pub Date : APR 22, 2019
  • Imprint : Profile Books
  • Page Extent : 304
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781788163088
  • Price : INR 799
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David Edgerton

Born in Montevideo in 1959 David Edgerton is one of Britain's leading historians and has challenged conventional analyses of technology for 20 years. Currently the Hans Rausing Professor at Imperial College London he writes for the broadsheet press and is a regular on television and radio. He lives in London.

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