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Power, Speed, and Form: Engineers and the Making of the Twentieth Century
Power Speed and Form Engineers and the Making of the Twentieth Century
Author: David P. Billington, David P. Billington Jr.
Power, Speed, and Form is the first accessible account of the engineering behind eight breakthrough innovations that transformed American life from 1876 to 1939--the telephone, electric power, oil refining, the automobile, the airplane, radio, the long-span steel bridge, and building with reinforced concrete. Beginning with Thomas Edison'...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691102924
ISBN-10: 0691102929
Publication Date: 10/2/2006
Pages: 294
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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