Power, Speed, and Form : : Engineers and the Making of the Twentieth Century / / David Billington Jr., David P. Billington.
Power, Speed, and Form 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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 77 halftones. 75 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Sidebars
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER ONE. The World’s Fairs of 1876 and 1939 chapter one The World’s Fairs of 1876 and 1939
- CHAPTER TWO. Edison, Westinghouse, and Electric Power
- CHAPTER THREE. Bell and the Telephone
- CHAPTER FOUR. Burton, Houdry, and the Refining of Oil
- CHAPTER FIVE. Ford, Sloan, and the Automobile
- CHAPTER SIX. The Wright Brothers and the Airplane
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Radio: From Hertz to Armstrong
- CHAPTER EIGHT. Ammann and the George Washington Bridge
- CHAPTER NINE. Eastwood, Tedesko, and Reinforced Concrete
- CHAPTER TEN. Streamlining: Chrysler and Douglas
- APPENDIX The Edison Dynamo and the Parallel Circuit
- Notes
- Index