Power, speed, and form : engineers and the making of the twentieth century /

[This book] 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....

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Main Authors: Billington, David P., 1927-2018 (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Billington, David P., Jr., 1953- (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2022
Edition:First paperback printing
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Call Number: TA23 .B48 2022