Power, speed, and form : engineers and the making of the twentieth century /
Offers an 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. These innovations used sim...
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t The world's fair of 1876 and 1939 -- |t Edison, Westinghouse, and electric power -- |t Bell and the telephone -- |t Burton, Houdry, and the refining of oil -- |t Ford, Sloan, and the automobile -- |t The Wright Brothers and the airplane -- |t Radio : from Hertz to Armstrong -- |t Ammann and the George Washington bridge -- |t Eastwood, Tedesko, and reinforced concrete -- |t Streamlining : Chrysler and Douglas -- |t Appendix : The Edison dynamo and the parallel circuit. |
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