Virginia Postrel argues that the history of humanity is the history of cloth. The need for textiles drove chemistry, mathematics, trade and politics: from the first spun thread to the Jacquard loom, out of which the computer grew.
Key highlights:
- Technology, trade and politics seen through a single industry
- Explains where the binary code of the Jacquard loom came from
- Popular history without the academic dryness
- Ukrainian-language edition
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
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