Inventing modern growing up with x-rays, skyscrapers, and tailfins

1846 : great-grandpa and manifest destiny -- Short-lived technologies : searching for direction -- "The irruption of forces totally new" -- A new genus of genius -- Remington to modern : finding the core on the fringe -- Fires and the high-rise Phoenix -- The titan city -- Automobile -- On...

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Autor principal: Lienhard, John H.
Altres autors: John H. Lienhard
Idioma:Undetermined
English
Publicat: New York Oxford University Press 2003
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Sumari:1846 : great-grandpa and manifest destiny -- Short-lived technologies : searching for direction -- "The irruption of forces totally new" -- A new genus of genius -- Remington to modern : finding the core on the fringe -- Fires and the high-rise Phoenix -- The titan city -- Automobile -- On the road : of highways and gasoline -- The back door into the sky -- Flying down to Rio -- A boy's life in the new century -- Inventing a better mousetrap -- War -- A funeral in the fifties -- After modern
Descripció física:ix, 292 p.
ill.
25 cm
ISBN:0199240450
9780199240456