![]() The number of cars just overtook motorcycle numbers, which increased from 0.7 to 4.3. Even in a poor country such as Italy, car ownership went up more than ten-fold in the fifteen years between 19 from 0.34 million to 4.7 million cars. In each nation the great car firms were regarded as powerhouses of the booming economies. The great boom in car production after the Second World War was largely an American and European affair, with the European makers growing faster, though from a much lower base. And, it illustrates some of the many paradoxes we need to grasp to get at the place of technology in history: It illustrates just how global the story the book tells is – I range from the USA to Italy, to the Soviet Union. 69 does show how the book deals with well known technologies in non-standard ways. It deals with a very well-known technology, the motor-car, in the years after 1945. ![]() 69 is not very representative of the book as a whole. I asked him to apply the " page 69 test" to it here is what he reported: His new book is The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900. ![]() ![]() David Edgerton is the Hans Rausing Professor at Imperial College London where he was the Founding Director of its Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. ![]()
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