Rotary motion, “a kind of mechanization of the mill race.” In other Of the steam engine– and ultimately the railroads– was the introduction of In the steam engine, the prime mover of industry, these two combined to produce energy in theoretically unlimited amounts.” The Industrial Revolution, generally seem as having begun in the the last third of the eighteenth century, was a complex process of denaturalization… Iron became the new industrial building material, coal the new combustible. “Next to wood, water and wind power were the main energy sources of pre-industrial economic life. With a detailed discussion of the history of the steam engine. In The Railway Journey, Schivelbusch opens My sense of this is a compression of time and a curious elasticity of space of oftentimes disquieting and othertimes most welcome transparency and that constant pull to the little screens that, so it would seem, we all feel these days, whenever, wherever. There are indeed many parallels, however, to start with, t he literature on Far West Texas is exponentially greater and– more to the point– since the time I was traveling in Baja California, the experience of traveling itself has been radically transformed by the Digital Revolution. In recent weeks, this question of machineĮvolution, to my surprise, has begun to interest me intensely.Īt first I had thought of this book I am writing about Far West Texas as a doppelgänger to my 2002 memoir of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, Miraculous Air, for the ecosystems and early exploration and mission histories of these two regions have many parallels. Points along / on the same trajectory of machine evolution?” Originally published as Geschichte der Eisenbahnreise, the English translation came out in 1979 I read the 2014 edition with a new preface, “World Machines: The Steam Engine, the Railway, and the Computer,” in which Schivelbusch asks,Īccelerator of the Industrial Revolution, and the computer occupy different Removed Tts_version 5.Of late: The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century by Wolfgang Schivelbusch, a German historian and scholar of cultural studies. OL2727809W Page_number_confidence 89.10 Pages 246 Pdf_module_version 0.0.19 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220805003148 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 124 Scandate 20220801030421 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780520059290 Source Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-200) and indexĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:01:14 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40623422 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier The Railroad Station: Entrance to the City 12. Stimulus Shield: or, the Industrialized Consciousness 11. Railway Accident, 'Railway Spine' and Traumatic Neurosis Excursus: The History of Shock 10. The Pathology of the Railroad Journey Excursus: Industrial Fatigue 8. River Steamboat and Canal Packet as Models for the American Railroad CarSea Voyage on Rails Postscript 7. The American Railroad Transportation Before the Railroad The Construction of the Railroad The New Type of Carriage The Compartment The End of Conversation while Traveling Isolation Drama in the Compartment The Compartment as a Problem 6. Railroad Space and Railroad Time Excursus: The Space of Glass Architecture 4. In The Railway Journey, Schivelbusch examines the origins of this industrialized consciousness by exploring the reaction in the nineteenth century to the first dramatic avatar of technological change, the railroad.Ĭover The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Foreword Preface to the 2014 Edition 1. But this was not always the case as Wolfgang Schivelbusch points out in this fascinating study, our adaptation to technological change-the development of our modern, industrialized consciousness-was very much a learned behavior. The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a commonplace of modern society.
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