The New Lunar Society

An Enlightenment Guide to the Next Industrial Revolution

David A. Mindell (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2025
MIT Press (Verlag)
9780262049528 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

How to create our industrial future with inspiration and lessons from the originators of the industrial revolution. Climate change, global disruption, and labor scarcity are forcing us to rethink the underlying principles of industrial society. In The New Lunar Society, David Mindell envisions this new industrialism from the fundamentals, drawing on the eighteenth century when first principles were formed at the founding of the Industrial Revolution. While outlining the new industrialism, he tells the story of the Lunar Society, a group of engineers, scientists, and industrialists who came together to apply the principles of the Enlightenment to industrial processes. Those principles were collaboration, the marriage of practical and scientific knowledge, and the belief that the world could progress through making things. The Lunar Society included pioneers like James Watt, Benjamin Franklin, and Josiah Wedgwood, and their conversations no less than ignited the Industrial Revolution and shaped the founding of the United States. Telling the stories of these makers in parallel with those of our current moment of crisis on multiple fronts, Mindell argues for a new industrialism. He asks: What does industry look like when it strives to optimize for the lowest carbon footprint as well as the greatest profit? When it values resilience as much as efficiency? When it upholds dignified, inclusive, sustainable work? Optimistic but not utopian about our ability to build the world, The New Lunar Society shines a light on how a new generation can reanimate the best ideas of our thinking doer forebears and begin to build a future that is both realistic and human-centered.

David Mindell is Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing at MIT. He has led or participated in more than 25 oceanographic expeditions, written seven books, and holds 34 patents in RF navigation, autonomous systems, and AI-assisted piloting. He is also Founder and Executive Chair of Humatics, a navigation technology company, and Cofounder of Unless, an investment firm that is catalyzing the next industrial revolution.

1. Watt’s Heroic Invention
2. On the Cusp of Industrial Transformation
3. Industrial Habits of Mind
4. Building Things, Not Climbing Ladders
5. On Counting Revolutions
6. A Steampunk Fairy Tale That Actually Happened
7. Shadows of Industrial Enlightenment
8. Birmingham Awake with Toys
9. Designed in California . . . Made Where?
10. Fabricating the Pin Factory
11. The Lifeblood of Industrial Societies
12. “Master of every metallic art”
13. Industry
14. The Industrious Revolution
15. The Great Toilet Paper Crisis
16. Supply Chains Are Us
17. Jefferson’s Enlightenment Teacher
18. Conquering with Pottery
19. “Turning the mill by fire”
20. The Work of the Future
21. James Watt, Frail Craftsman
22. Automation and Work
23. “To settle a manufactory”
24. How You Get to Work
25. Death forms the Lunar Society
26. “Steam mill mad”
27. “Get excited about maintenance”
28. Jefferson’s lost world
29. Cults of Newness and the Challenge of Adoption
30. Reindustrializing America
31. “To astonish the world, all at once”
32. Generations of Industrial Transformation
33. Human Machines at Etruria
34. A Republic of Industry
35. From Revere to R&D
36. Beyond Boulton and Watt: Steam for Mobility
37. An R&D System Adrift
38. Manufacturing Social Change
39. “No Philosophers!”
40. New Industrialists
41. Lunar Societies Today
42. New Industrialism
43. Collaborative Heroes
44. Industrial Futures
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.02.2025
Zusatzinfo	4 BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-13	9780262049528 / 9780262049528
Zustand	Neuware