Power, Speed, and Form: Engineers and the Making of the Twentieth Century
Power, Speed, and Form: Engineers and the Making of the Twentieth Century
$43.00
Billington, David P. and David P., Jr.
Cl. Princeton, 2006
Book ID: 71017
Billington's book describes the innovations from 1876 to 1939 that launched the leading technologies three-quarters of a century ago. They are the electric light and power network, the telephone, oil refining, the automobile, the airplane, the radio, large steel bridges, and reinforced concrete.
312 pp., 77 halftone, 75 line illus.