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
House, Kirk W.
Lensi, Francesco
Schwarz, Frederic
IEEW,
Courland, Robert
Concepts
Technology
Telegraphs; telephones
Engineering
Electricity; magnetism
Radio
Automobiles
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
Ancient
18th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
West Germany
Norfolk (England)
Italy
Germany
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