Overview

The major engineering pioneers whose works transformed America into the world's leading modern power, from Robert Fulton and his inventions of the steamboat to Thomas Edison's construction of the first electrical power network. Introduces each of the major figures and explains how they came up with their ideas and how their works tranformed commerce, industry, and society.

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Author:   David P. Billington
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.372kg
ISBN:  

9780471140962

ISBN 10:   0471140961
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   25 September 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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DAVID P. BILLINGTON, Professor of Civil Engineering at Princeton University, is the author of The Tower and the Bridge and Robert Maillart's Bridges: The Art of Engineering, winner of the 1979 Dexter Prize as the outstanding book on the history of technology.

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