Inventing modern : growing up with x-rays, skyscrapers, and tailfins / John H. Lienhard.
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TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.Description: ix, 292 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: - 0195160320 (acid-free paper)
- 9780195160321 (acid-free paper)
- 0195189515 (pbk.)
- 9780195189513 (pbk.)
- United States -- Civilization -- 20th century
- Technological innovations -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Technology -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Science -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Material culture -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Lienhard, John H., 1930- -- Childhood and youth
- Innovaciones técnicas -- Aspectos sociales
- Tecnología y civilizaciâon
- Siglo XX
- 303.48/3/097309045 21
- E169.1 .L716 2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-283) and index.
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.
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