Twentieth century engineering
Author | : Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) |
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Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1964 |
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Author | : Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) |
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Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1964 |
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Author | : Cuthbert Hartland Seymour Tupholme |
Publisher | : Hassell Street Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2021-09-09 |
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ISBN | : 9781014771445 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : David P. Billington |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2022-11-29 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0691242402 |
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 concrete. Beginning with Thomas Edison's system to generate and distribute electric power, the authors explain the Bell telephone, the oil refining processes of William Burton and Eugene Houdry, Henry Ford's Model T car and the response by General Motors, the Wright brothers' airplane, radio innovations from Marconi to Armstrong, Othmar Ammann's George Washington Bridge, the reinforced concrete structures of John Eastwood and Anton Tedesko, and in the 1930s, the Chrysler Airflow car and the Douglas DC-3 airplane. These innovations used simple numerical ideas, which the Billingtons integrate with short narrative accounts of each breakthrough—a unique and effective way to introduce engineering and how engineers think. The book shows how the best engineering exemplifies efficiency, economy and, where possible, elegance. With Power, Speed, and Form, educators, first-year engineering students, liberal arts students, and general readers now have, for the first time in one volume, an accessible and readable history of engineering achievements that were vital to America's development and that are still the foundations of modern life.
Author | : David P. Billington, Jr. |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2020-11-17 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0262359685 |
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.
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Author | : Jeffrey Meikle |
Publisher | : Temple University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2010-06-04 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 1439904715 |
Classic, indispensable introduction to industrial design in the last century.
Author | : Ludwig Glaeser |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Structural analysis (Engineering) |
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Author | : William Graebner |
Publisher | : Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
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Total Pages | : 139 |
Release | : 1964 |
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Author | : George Constable |
Publisher | : Joseph Henry Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0309089085 |
A Century of Innovation: The Engineering that Transformed Our Lives is a full-color coffee table book that details the greatest achievements of 20th-century engineering. Each chapter details one specific engineering "feat" with a discussion of the discovery's impact on society and descriptions and illustrations of how that discovery "works."