The Grammar of the Machine: Technical Literacy and Early Industrial Expansion in the United States

by Edward W. Stevens Jr.

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During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the American economy moved toward a manufacturing base and mass production, creating a demand for a literacy that encompassed not only the traditional alphabetic form of expression but also scientific and mathematical notation and spatial and graphic representation. How did the world of learning respond to this demand? What kinds of educational institutions, teachers, textbooks, and patterns...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0300061064

ISBN13:9780300061062

Release Date:July 1995

Publisher:Yale University Press

Length:224 Pages

Weight:2.55 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"

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Business & Management Education Education & Reference History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Schools & Teaching Social Sciences Textbooks

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