A review of the emergence of the term, concepts and history of industrial design and a theoretical analysis of the major elements forming the structure for a prospective historiography

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Balcıoglu, Tevfik
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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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T. Balcıoglu, “A review of the emergence of the term, concepts and history of industrial design and a theoretical analysis of the major elements forming the structure for a prospective historiography,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 1993.
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