Accident Prone : A History of Technology, Psychology, and Misfits of the Machine Age /
Burnham, John, author.
Technology demands uniformity from human beings who encounter it. People encountering technology, however, differ from one another. Thinkers in the early twentieth century, observing the awful consequences of interactions between humans and machines-death by automobiles or dismemberment by factory machinery, for example-developed the idea of accident proneness: the tendency of a particular person to have more accidents than most people. In tracing this concept from its birth to its disappearance at the end of the twentieth century, Accident Prone offers a unique history of 
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Technology demands uniformity from human beings who encounter it. People encountering technology, however, differ from one another. Thinkers in the early twentieth century, observing the awful consequences of interactions between humans and machines-death by automobiles or dismemberment by factory machinery, for example-developed the idea of accident proneness: the tendency of a particular person to have more accidents than most people. In tracing this concept from its birth to its disappearance at the end of the twentieth century, Accident Prone offers a unique history of 
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-317) and index.

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Accidents
Accidents
Accidents
Technology
Industrial safety.
System safety.
Safety education.