| 000 | 03480nam a22005535i 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | 978-3-319-55248-4 | ||
| 003 | DE-He213 | ||
| 005 | 20220801221647.0 | ||
| 007 | cr nn 008mamaa | ||
| 008 | 170513s2017 sz | s |||| 0|eng d | ||
| 020 |
_a9783319552484 _9978-3-319-55248-4 |
||
| 024 | 7 |
_a10.1007/978-3-319-55248-4 _2doi |
|
| 050 | 4 | _aT1-995 | |
| 072 | 7 |
_aTBC _2bicssc |
|
| 072 | 7 |
_aTEC000000 _2bisacsh |
|
| 072 | 7 |
_aTBC _2thema |
|
| 082 | 0 | 4 |
_a620 _223 |
| 100 | 1 |
_aHancock, Peter. _eauthor. _4aut _4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut _957276 |
|
| 245 | 1 | 0 |
_aTransports of Delight _h[electronic resource] : _bHow Technology Materializes Human Imagination / _cby Peter Hancock. |
| 250 | _a1st ed. 2017. | ||
| 264 | 1 |
_aCham : _bSpringer International Publishing : _bImprint: Springer, _c2017. |
|
| 300 |
_aXXV, 235 p. 52 illus. _bonline resource. |
||
| 336 |
_atext _btxt _2rdacontent |
||
| 337 |
_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia |
||
| 338 |
_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier |
||
| 347 |
_atext file _bPDF _2rda |
||
| 505 | 0 | _aIntroduction -- Ghosts of the Temeraire -- What a Sight It Is -- The Largest Moving Object Ever Built -- Reaching For God -- Surviving Sisters -- The Riddle of the Labyrinth -- Ships of the Soul -- Threads Through Time -- Transports of Delight -- Autobiomimesis. | |
| 520 | _aThis inspiring book shows how the spiritual side of life, with its thoughts, feelings, and aspirations, is intimately bound up with our material technologies. From the wonder of Gothic Cathedrals, to the quiet majesty of lighter than air flight, to the ultimate in luxury of the north Atlantic steamers, Peter Hancock explores how these sequential heights of technology have enabled our dreams of being transported to new and uncharted realms to become reality. Sometimes literally, sometimes figuratively, technology has always been there to make material the visions of our imagination. This book shows how this has essentially been true for all technologies from Stonehenge to space station. But technology is far from perfect. Indeed, the author argues here that some of the most public and tragic of its failures still remain instructive, emblematic, and even inspiring. He reports on examples such as a Cathedral of the Earth (Beauvais), a Cathedral of the Seas (Titanic), and a Cathedral of the Air (Hindenburg) and tells their stories from the viewpoint of material transcendence. By interweaving their stories he reveals how technologies can succeed in elevating human beings and, in taking them to whole new realms of being, he explores and explains why these experiences are ‘Transports of Delight.’. | ||
| 650 | 0 |
_aEngineering. _99405 |
|
| 650 | 0 |
_aPsychology. _923605 |
|
| 650 | 0 |
_aTechnology. _92593 |
|
| 650 | 0 |
_aHistory. _932116 |
|
| 650 | 0 |
_aTechnology—Philosophy. _932882 |
|
| 650 | 1 | 4 |
_aTechnology and Engineering. _957277 |
| 650 | 2 | 4 |
_aBehavioral Sciences and Psychology. _933003 |
| 650 | 2 | 4 |
_aHistory of Technology. _932120 |
| 650 | 2 | 4 |
_aPhilosophy of Technology. _932886 |
| 710 | 2 |
_aSpringerLink (Online service) _957278 |
|
| 773 | 0 | _tSpringer Nature eBook | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 |
_iPrinted edition: _z9783319552477 |
| 776 | 0 | 8 |
_iPrinted edition: _z9783319552491 |
| 776 | 0 | 8 |
_iPrinted edition: _z9783319856070 |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55248-4 |
| 912 | _aZDB-2-ENG | ||
| 912 | _aZDB-2-SXE | ||
| 942 | _cEBK | ||
| 999 |
_c79910 _d79910 |
||