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Histories of Technologies

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Technology in Western Civilization

The Emergence of Modern Industrial Society Earliest Times to 1900. Vol. 1. Edited by Melvin Kranzberg and Carroll W. Pursell jun. Pp. xii + 802. (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1967.) 68s. net.

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