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

ISBN: 0691102929

ISBN13: 9780691102924

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

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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...

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