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9780691102924

Power, Speed, and Form

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  • ISBN13:

    9780691102924

  • ISBN10:

    0691102929

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-10-02
  • Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

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Summary

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

David P. Billington is Gordon Y. S. Wu Professor of Engineering at Princeton University. His books include "The Innovators; Robert Maillart: Designer, Builder, Artist;" and "The Tower and the Bridge" (Princeton). David P. Billington Jr. holds a Ph.D. in modern history from the University of Texas and is an independent scholar.

Table of Contents

List of Sidebars
ix
List of Figures
xi
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xxi
The World's Fairs of 1876 and 1939
1(12)
Edison, Westinghouse, and Electric Power
13(22)
Bell and the Telephone
35(22)
Burton, Houdry, and the Refining of Oil
57(22)
Ford, Sloan, and the Automobile
79(24)
The Wright Brothers and the Airplane
103(26)
Radio: From Hertz to Armstrong
129(26)
Ammann and the George Washington Bridge
155(21)
Eastwood, Tedesko, and Reinforced Concrete
176(23)
Streamlining: Chrysler and Douglas
199(21)
Appendix The Edison Dynamo and the Parallel Circuit 220(3)
Notes 223(34)
Index 257

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