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

by David P. Billington Jr., David P. Billington, David Billington Jr

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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's system to generate and distribute electric power, the authors explain the Bell telephone, the oil refining...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691102929

ISBN13:9780691102924

Release Date:October 2006

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:296 Pages

Weight:1.95 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 8.8" x 9.3"

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