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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....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2006.
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| Colección: | Engineering case studies online
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of sidebars
- List of figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- ch. 1. The world's fair of 1876 and 1939
- ch. 2. Edison, Westinghouse, and electric power
- ch. 3. Bell and the telephone
- ch. 4. Burton, Houdry, and the refining of oil
- ch. 5. Ford, Sloan, and the automobile
- ch. 6. The Wright Brothers and the airplane
- ch. 7. Radio : from Hertz to Armstrong
- ch. 8. Ammann and the George Washington bridge
- ch. 9. Eastwood, Tedesko, and reinforced concrete
- ch. 10. Streamlining : Chrysler and Douglas
- Appendix : The Edison dynamo and the parallel circuit
- Notes
- Index.