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In 1790, Johann Beckmann, who taught economics in Göttingen, first used the term “technology” to denote a comprehensive description of the science of manufacturing processes in the various trades, the ‘useful arts’. He laid down his thoughts in the work, ‘Guideline to Technology or On the Science of Crafts, Factories and Manufactories, primarily those directly concerned with Agriculture, Policing and Cameral Science’.
“The mechanization which is on the march torments and disturbs me; it is rolling upon us like a storm, slowly, slowly; but it has assumed its course, it will come and strike.”
Goethe, Wilhelm Meister
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Warnecke, HJ. (1993). Manufacturing — Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. In: The Fractal Company. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78124-7_2
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