Description
Nowadays, students of innovation prefer the term co-evolution, emphasizing the parallel and mutually dependent development of technology and society. This acknowledges the importance of contingency and of the impact of the past upon the present, the very reason why The Evolution of Automotive Technology: A Handbook looks at car technology from a long-term perspective.
Often we will conclude that the innovation was in the (re)arrangement of existing technologies.
Since its beginnings, car manufacturers have brought a total of 1 billion automobiles to the market. We are currently witnessing an explosion toward the second billion.
Looking back, we can see this history evolve through five distinctive phases:
- Emergence (1880-1917)
- Persistence (1917-1940)
- Exuberance (1945-1973)
- Doom (1973-2000)
- Confusion (2001-present)
About the Author
Gijs Mom is a historian of technology and Associate Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands. A literary historian turned automotive engineer, Mom is author of The Electric Vehicle: Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age (Johns Hopkins 2004); founder of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M); and editor of Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies (Berghahn Books).
Book Information
ISBN 9780768080278
Author Gijs Mom
Format Hardback
Page Count 360
Imprint SAE International
Publisher SAE International
Weight(grams) 1020g