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A century of innovation : twenty engineering achievements that transformed our lives

Title
A century of innovation : twenty engineering achievements that transformed our lives / George Constable and Bob Somerville ; foreword by Neil Armstrong ; afterword by Arthur C. Clarke.
Author
Constable, George.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : Joseph Henry Press, ©2003.

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Additional Authors
Somerville, Bob.
Description
vii, 248 pages : illustrations (some color); 31 cm
Summary
As the world eagerly looked forward to the dawn of a new millennium, the turning of the calendar also represented an opportunity to pause and reflect on the tremendous ingenuity and invention that marked the previous hundred years. Electricity, automobiles, telephones, radio, television, computers? these are a just a few of the innovations the decades had introduced - all compliments of the world's engineers.
Subject
  • Technological innovations
  • Engineering > Technological innovations
  • Technische vernieuwing
  • KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS
  • MANAGEMENT METHODS
  • INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
  • INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
  • ENGINEERING
Note
  • Includes index.
Contents
Electrification -- Automobile -- Airplane -- Water supply and distribution -- Electronics -- Radio and television -- Agricultural mechanization -- Computers -- Telephony -- Air conditioning and refrigeration -- Highways -- Spacecraft -- Internet -- Imaging -- Household appliances -- Health technologies -- Petroleum and petrochemical technologies -- Lasers and fiber optics -- Nuclear technologies -- High performance materials.
ISBN
  • 0309089085
  • 9780309089081
LCCN
2003019019
OCLC
  • ocm52876181
  • 52876181
  • SCSB-1312434
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library