| 单词 |
eotechnic |
| 释义 |
eotechnic, a.|iːəʊˈtɛknɪk|
[f. eo- + Gr. τεχνικ-ός (see technic a. and n.).]
Denoting or belonging to the first stage of industrial development, when technical advances are first applied to the making of machines.
1934L. Mumford Technics & Civilization iii. 109 The demonstration that industrial civilization was not a single whole..was first made by Professor Patrick Geddes... In defining the paleotechnic and neotechnic phases, he however neglected the important period of preparation, when all the key inventions were either invented or foreshadowed. So, following the archeological parallel he called attention to, I shall call the first period the eotechnic phase: the dawn age of modern technics. Ibid. 112 At the bottom of the eotechnic economy stands one important fact: the diminished use of human beings as prime movers, and the separation of the production of energy from its application and immediate control. 1954J. A. C. Brown Social Psychol. Industry i. 22 The eotechnic or medieval phase of industry stretches roughly from about a.d. 1000 to 1750. |
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