TY - GEN AU - Alexander,Jennifer Karns TI - The mantra of efficiency: from waterwheel to social control PY - 2008/// CY - Baltimore PB - The Johns Hopkins University Press KW - History KW - Technological innovations KW - Industrial efficiency KW - Science and industry N1 - E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal; American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about; Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-199) and index; Introduction: The varieties of efficiency -- Static and dynamic efficiency: the waterwheels of Smeaton and the Franklin Institute -- The effects of control: Gérard-Joseph Christian and perfected machines -- Economy of nature: Darwin, Marshall, and the costs of efficiency -- Balance and transformation: technical and popular efficiency in the Progressive Era United States -- An island of mechanical predictability: efficient worker seating in late Weimar Germany -- Pride in efficiency: the dispute over Time on the cross -- Global efficiency: an enduring industrial value in a postindustrial world -- Conclusion: The future of efficiency -- Notes -- Bibliographic essay -- Index UR - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb31685 ER -