Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact (Technical Revolutions and Their Lasting Impact)
de Smil, Vaclav
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- ISBN 10
- 0195168747
- ISBN 13
- 9780195168747
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Sinopsis
The period between 1867 and 1914 remains the greatest watershed in human history since the emergence of settled agricultural societies: the time when an expansive civilization based on synergy of fuels, science, and technical innovation was born. At its beginnings in the 1870s were dynamite,the telephone, photographic film, and the first light bulbs. Its peak decade - the astonishing 1880s - brought electricity - generating plants, electric motors, steam turbines, the gramophone, cars, aluminum production, air-filled rubber tires, and prestressed concrete. And its post-1900 period sawthe first airplanes, tractors, radio signals and plastics, neon lights and assembly line production. This book is a systematic interdisciplinary account of the history of this outpouring of European and American intellect and of its truly epochal consequences....
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- Goodwill of the San Francisco Bay (US)
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- Título
- Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact (Technical Revolutions and Their Lasting Impact)
- Autor
- Smil, Vaclav
- Estado del libro
- UsedVeryGood The cover shows normal wear and tear.
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0195168747
- ISBN 13
- 9780195168747
- Editorial
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, Ny, U.s.a
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- July 27, 2005
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