Book ID: CBB000772760

Power, Speed, and Form: Engineers and the Making of the Twentieth Century (2006)

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Billington, David P., Jr. (Author)
Billington, David P., Jr. (Author)


Princeton University Press


Publication Date: 2006
Physical Details: xxv + 269 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description On innovations developed between 1876 and 1939 that changed American life: the telephone, electric power, oil refining, the automobile, the airplane, radio, the long-span steel bridge, and building with reinforced concrete.


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Authors & Contributors
Bijsterveld, Karin
Allen, Barry
Arapostathis, Stathis
Barrett, Paul F.
Carlson, W. B.
Firsov, Alexander
Journals
American Heritage of Invention and Technology
British Journal for the History of Science
Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
Journal of the History of Ideas
Research in the History of Technology
Technology and Culture
Publishers
IEEE
MIT Press
Cornell University Press
Duke University Press
Ohio State University Press
Prometheus Books
Concepts
Technology
Telegraphs; telephones
Electricity; magnetism
Engineering
Radio
Aircraft; airplanes
People
Tesla, Nikola
Loutzky, Boris
Varley, Cromwell Fleetwood
Weber, Wilhelm Eduard
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
17th century
18th century
Ancient
Places
United States
Great Britain
Rome (Italy)
France
Germany
Russia
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