Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change

by Rosalind Williams

Book Overview

A humanistic account of the changing role of technology in society, by a historian and a former Dean of Students and Undergraduate Education at MIT.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262232235
• ISBN13: 9780262232234
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher