Power, Speed, and Form: Engineers and the Making of the Twentieth Century

by David P. Billington Jr., David P. Billington, David Billington Jr

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691102929
• ISBN13: 9780691102924
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.8" x 9.3"