Billington, David P., Jr. (Author)
Billington, David P., Jr. (Author)
Princeton University Press
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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