Productivity Improving Technologies (Historical) (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In recent decades there here have been a number of excellent books and papers published on the history of technology, the role of energy in economics and related issues such as resource depletion, some of which are reference herein. Some of the major contributors to productivity have been as follows: 1. Replacing human and animal power with water and wind power, steam, electricity and internal combustion; 2. Energy efficiency; 3. Infrastructures: canals, railroads, highways and pipelines; 4. Mechanization, both production machinery and agricultural machines; 5. Work practices and processes: The American system of manufacturing, Taylorism or scientific management, mass production, assembly line, containerized freight; 6. Scientific agriculture: fertilizers and the green revolution, livestock and poultry management; 7. New materials, new process for their production and dematerialization; 8. Communications: Telegraph, telephone, radio, fiber optic network and the Internet.