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Dilemmas and missions

Nature volume 372, pages 627–628 (1994)Cite this article

The Fontana History of Technology.

By Donald Cardwell. Fontana: 1994. Pp. 565.£9.99 (pbk). To be published as The Norton History of Science in the United States by Norton in January 1995, $35 (hbk), $18.95 (pbk). The Power of the Machine: The Impact of Technology from 1700 to the Present Day. By R. A. Buchanan. Penguin: 1994. Pp. 299. £7.99 (pbk). First published by Viking in 1992. Power from Wind: A History of Windmill Technology. By Richard L. Hills. Cambridge University Press: 1994. Pp. 324. £45, $59.95.

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