Friedel,  Robert <br/><br/>
A culture of improvement:  technology and the western millennium / 
Robert Friedel 
 - Cambridge, Mass :  MIT Press,  c2007 
 - x, 588 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [545]-568) and index 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780262514019 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Technological innovations--History<br/>Technology and civilization<br/>Civilization, Western<br/>Intellectual life