Inventing modern : growing up with x-rays, skyscrapers, and tailfins / John H. Lienhard.
2003
E169.1 .L53945 2003 (Mapit)
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Inventing modern : growing up with x-rays, skyscrapers, and tailfins / John H. Lienhard.
Author
Lienhard, John H., 1930-
ISBN
0195160320 (alk. paper)
Imprint
New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Language
English
Description
ix, 292 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
E169.1 .L53945 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification
303.48/3/097309045
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-283) and index.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.