Description: Further DetailsTitle: Power, Speed, and FormCondition: NewEAN: 9780691102924ISBN: 9780691102924Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 10/22/2006Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 216mmItem Weight: 851gAuthor: David P. Billington, David P. Billington Jr.Language: EnglishSubtitle: Engineers and the Making of the Twentieth CenturyISBN-10: 0691102929Description: 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 processes of William Burton and Eugene Houdry, Henry Ford's Model T car and the response by General Motors, the Wright brothers' airplane, radio innovations from Marconi to Armstrong, Othmar Ammann's George Washington Bridge, the reinforced concrete structures of John Eastwood and Anton Tedesko, and in the 1930s, the Chrysler Airflow car and the Douglas DC-3 airplane. These innovations used simple numerical ideas, which the Billingtons integrate with short narrative accounts of each breakthrough--a unique and effective way to introduce engineering and how engineers think. The book shows how the best engineering exemplifies efficiency, economy and, where possible, elegance.With Power, Speed, and Form, educators, first-year engineering students, liberal arts students, and general readers now have, for the first time in one volume, an accessible and readable history of engineering achievements that were vital to America's development and that are still the foundations of modern life.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Science Nature & MathRelease Year: 2006 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Power, Speed, and Form
Title: Power, Speed, and Form
EAN: 9780691102924
ISBN: 9780691102924
Release Date: 10/22/2006
Release Year: 2006
Subtitle: Engineers and the Making of the Twentieth Century
ISBN-10: 0691102929
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Science Nature & Math
Number of Pages: 296 Pages
Publication Name: Power, Speed, and Form : Engineers and the Making of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 1.1 in
Subject: Engineering (General), Earth Sciences / Geography, History
Publication Year: 2006
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 30.1 Oz
Item Length: 9.3 in
Subject Area: Technology & Engineering, Science
Author: David P. Billington, David Billington Jr.
Item Width: 8.8 in
Format: Hardcover
