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Oxford University Press
Language
English
Pages
292

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Subjects

Childhood and youth, Civilization, History, Material culture, Science, Social aspects of Material culture, Social aspects of Science, Social aspects of Technological innovations, Social aspects of Technology, Technological innovations, Technology, Technology, social aspects, United states, civilization, 20th century, Social aspects

People

John H. Lienhard (1930-)

Places

United States

Times

20th century

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Inventing modern: growing up with x-rays, skyscrapers, and tailfins
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Table of Contents

1846 : great-grandpa and manifest destiny
Short-lived technologies : searching for direction
"The irruption of forces totally new"
A new genus of genius
Remington to modern : finding the core on the fringe
Fires and the high-rise Phoenix
The titan city
Automobile
On the road : of highways and gasoline
The back door into the sky
Flying down to Rio
A boy's life in the new century
Inventing a better mousetrap
War
A funeral in the fifties
After modern.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-283) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
303.48/3/097309045
Library of Congress
E169.1 .L53945 2003, E169.1.L53945 2003

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Pagination
ix, 292 p. :
Number of pages
292

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OL3578457M
ISBN 10
0195160320
LCCN
2002156634
OCLC/WorldCat
51330219
Library Thing
1241610
Goodreads
522536

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