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The Ascent of GIM, the Global Intelligent Machine

Part of the History of Mechanism and Machine Science Book Series (volume 36)

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-96547-5

ISBN: 978-3-319-96546-8

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Nov 21, 2018

1 - 10 of 13 Chapters

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Introduction

Koetsier, Teun

Pages: 1 –5

[In the millions of years separating us from the first human like creatures, biological evolution led to Homo sapiens. Somewhere along the line, next to natural evolution by variation and selection, cultural evolution started to play a role. This led to the gradual introduction and improvement of...
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The Rise of Homo Sapiens

Koetsier, Teun

Pages: 7 –31

[Already animals use production and information tools and so did our ancestors, the hominids. With the appearance of our species, Homo sapiens, and in particular in the Stone Age Revolution, major progress was made, resulting not only in more refined and more complex production tools, but also in...
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Tools in the Early Agricultural Empires

Koetsier, Teun

Pages: 33 –53

[After the domestication of animals and plants a stable economic surplus was created, which led to the creation of large societies with soldiers, craftsmen, artisans and religious and governmental institutions staffed by full time officials. The rise of these early agricultural empires is...
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The Axial Age and the Birth of Western Science

Koetsier, Teun

Pages: 55 –82

[In the first millennium BCE influential individuals in China, in India, in Persia, and among the Jews and the Greeks, liberated themselves from the mythical heritage. In this period, the Axial Age, philosophy was born. Moreover, also in politics, a more rational approach became visible. This was...
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Machines in Classical Antiquity

Koetsier, Teun

Pages: 83 –110

[Vitruvius’ Ten Books on Architecture covers all major aspects of Roman engineering. The book illustrates that in classical antiquity many new inventions were made in production machinery. New information machines appeared as well. The anaphoric clock, the astrolabe and the Antikythera mechanism...
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The Middle Ages

Koetsier, Teun

Pages: 111 –143

[ Even in 1400 CE a neutral observer who looked around in the world would not have guessed that European culture would within a few centuries become leading. Such an observer would have identified Chinese culture and Islamic culture as in many ways superior. And if he would have been willing to...
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The Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution

Koetsier, Teun

Pages: 145 –175

[The invention of the printing press had an huge impact and so had the discovery of the America’s by Columbus. The Renaissance was characterized by immense optimism. The sky seemed the limit. Da Vinci was in this sense very much a representative of his time. The theory of simple machines finally...
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The First Wave of Industrial Revolution: Cotton Textiles and Pig Iron

Koetsier, Teun

Pages: 177 –207

[A unique combination of factors present in England was responsible for the occurrence of the Industrial Revolution. The Scientific Revolution was one of them, although its role is often underestimated. The expertise of the clockmakers was another one. The first wave of Industrial Revolution was...
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The Second Wave of Industrial Revolution: Railroads and Steel

Koetsier, Teun

Pages: 209 –239

[With the second wave of Industrial Revolution the process of globalization gained speed. The growing complexity of management led to problems of control that required the development of new information technology. The first serious steps towards science based technology were made.]
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More Scientific Technology

Koetsier, Teun

Pages: 241 –266

[With the third wave of Industrial Revolution science definitely started to play a decisive role in technology. Control problems continued to lead to information machinery. Hollerith’ electromagnetic statistical machines and Kelvin’s tide predictors are only two impressive examples.]

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