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In a highly original and engaging fashion, Schivelbusch discusses the ways in which our perceptions of distance, time, autonomy, speed, and risk were altered by railway travel. In The Railway Journey, Schivelbusch examines the origins of this industrialized consciousness by exploring the reaction in the nineteenth century to the first dramatic avatar of technological change, the railroad. But this was not always the case as Wolfgang Schivelbusch points out in this fascinating study, our adaptation to technological changethe development of our modern, industrialized consciousnesswas very much a learned behavior. It was precisely because of the physical reality of the concentration of English coal production that the English were able to mechanize motive power so easily.The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a commonplace of modern society. The French were unable to perceive coal as an endlessly available fuel because of the physical reality of the concentration of English coal production. The land between the mines and the river Tyne became covered by a dense network of railways, which were used only to move coal.
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The first use of the steam engine as a locomotive was in the coal fields around Newcastle in the 1800s. However, following the evolutionary pattern of the Industrial Revolution, the water-wheel was to be aided by a strange intermediate adaptation that pointed the way to mechanization: water-powered factories attempted to end their dependence on seasonally variable water levels by installing the Newcomen engine to pump back the used water. The waterwheel remained the main energy source for England’s manufacturing industry in the eighteenth century. The abolition of live workmanship by the division of labor corresponded in terms of materials and energies to the emancipation from the boundaries of nature which occurs when natural materials and energies are replaced by mineral or synthetic ones. The Industrial Revolution, which was a process of denaturalization, began in the last third of the eighteenth century. Insights from Chapter 16 Insights from Chapter 1 Insights on Wolfgang Schivelbusch's The Railway Journey Contents It was precisely because of the physical reality of the concentration of English coal production that the English were able to mechanize motive power so easily. #4 The French were unable to perceive coal as an endlessly available fuel because of the physical reality of the concentration of English coal production.
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#3 The first use of the steam engine as a locomotive was in the coal fields around Newcastle in the 1800s. #2 The waterwheel remained the main energy source for England’s manufacturing industry in the eighteenth century. #1 The Industrial Revolution, which was a process of denaturalization, began in the last third of the eighteenth century. Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.