Organization, Automation, and Society: The Scientific Revolution in IndustryThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1961. |
Contents
Characteristics of the Scientific Revo | 3 |
The Handicap Race with Nature | 38 |
Science as the Key to Resource Innovation | 72 |
The Delicate Moving Balance between Order | 108 |
PART II | 132 |
The Principles of Unitization in Mining | 145 |
Determinants and Prospects of Industrialized Agri | 158 |
The Chemical Revolution in the Materials Founda | 202 |
The Permeation of Automation Processing | 232 |
The Problem of InterMedia Traffic Unification | 267 |
Integration of Telecommunications Networks | 361 |
Recapitulation and the First Sum of Consequences | 387 |
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Organization, Automation, and Society: The Scientific Revolution in Industry Robert Alexander Brady No preview available - 2011 |
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