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서명/저자사항 | From insight to innovation : engineering ideas that transformed America in the twentieth century/ David P. Billington, Jr. ; foreword by MIchael Littman.. |
개인저자 | Billington, David P.,Jr., 1953- author. |
형태사항 | 1 online resource (xii, 321 pages): illustrations. |
기타형태 저록 | Original 9780262044301 |
ISBN | 9780262359689 0262359685 |
서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
요약 | The engineering ideas behind key twentieth-century technical innovations, from great dams and highways to the jet engine, the transistor, the microchip, and the computer. Technology is essential to modern life, yet few of us are technology-literate enough to know much about the engineering that underpins it. In this book, David P. Billington, Jr., offers accessible accounts of the key twentieth-century engineering innovations that brought us into the twenty-first century. Billington examines a series of engineering advances--from Hoover Dam and jet engines to the transistor, the microchip, the computer, and the internet--and explains how they came about and how they work. |
일반주제명 | Engineering --United States --History --20th century. Technological innovations --United States --History --20th century. Engineers --United States. |
언어 | 영어 |
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