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This 50th anniversary edition of Men, Machines, and Modern Times, though ultimately concerned with a good option to an Orwellian 1984, offers an entertaining group of historical accounts extracted from the 19th century to highlight a main theme: the nature of scientific change, the fission caused in population by such change, and society's a reaction to that change. Beginning with a amazing illustration of resistance to innovation in the US Navy following an officer's discovery of a far more accurate way to fire a gun at sea, Elting Morison goes on to narrate the unusual record of the new model steamship, the Wapanoag, in the 1860s. He then continues with the difficulties confronting the introduction of the pasteurization process for milk; he traces the introduction of the Bessemer process; and lastly he considers the computer. While the discussions are liberally sprinkled with amusing instances and anecdotes, all are related to the greater profound and current issue of how to organize and deal with system of ideas, energies, and equipment so that it will comply with the human sizing.
