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ABSTRACT THIS book provides an interesting and thought-provoking contribution to the history of the machine and its sociological effects on humanity. Mr. Mum-ford divides the machine age

into tliree great periods: (1) the ‘eotechnic1 based on animal, water and wind power; (2) the ‘paleoteclinic’ which came in with Watt's steam engine and had its basis in coal and iron,

and (3) tho ‘ncotechnic’ which is now dawning and promises industrial decentralisation, cleanness, leisure and abundance, its basis being tho longdistance transmission of electric power.

_Technics and Civilization_ By Lewis Mumford. Pp. xi + 495 + 16 plates. (London George Routlodge and Sons, Ltd., 1934.) 18_s_. net. Access through your institution Buy or subscribe This is a

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ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Technics and Civilization. _Nature_ 136, 282 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136282b0 Download citation * Published: 01 September 1935 * Issue Date: 24 August 1935

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