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The Innovators, Trade: The Engineering Pioneers Who Transformed America

The Innovators, Trade: The Engineering Pioneers Who Transformed America - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:David P. BillingtonPublish date:1996-04-26Pages:272
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Trade Paper PressISBN-13:9780471140269ISBN-10:471140260UPC:9780471140269Book Category:Technology & Engineering, ScienceBook Subcategory:Engineering (General), HistorySize:9.52 x 6.30 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SCPNTFCVQT
In this age of microchips and deep space probes, it's hard to imagine life before electricity or passenger trains. A series of engineering innovations paved the way to the twentieth century, and transformed America into the world's greatest industrial power.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Trade Paper PressISBN-13:9780471140269ISBN-10:471140260UPC:9780471140269Book Category:Technology & Engineering, ScienceBook Subcategory:Engineering (General), HistorySize:9.52 x 6.30 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SCPNTFCVQT
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.
Publisher: Trade Paper Press

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