Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact
by Vaclav Smil
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The period between 1867 and 1914 remains the greatest watershed in human history since the emergence of settled agricultural societies: the time when an expansive civilization based on synergy of fuels, science, and technical innovation was born. At its beginnings in the 1870s were dynamite,the telephone, photographic film, and the first light bulbs. Its peak decade - the astonishing 1880s - brought electricity - generating plants, electric motors, steam turbines, the gramophone, cars, aluminum production, air-filled rubber tires, and prestressed concrete. And its post-1900 period sawthe first airplanes, tractors, radio signals and plastics, neon lights and assembly line production. This book is a systematic interdisciplinary account of the history of this outpouring of European and American intellect and of its truly epochal consequences....
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- Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact
- Author
- Vaclav Smil
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- New
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- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0195168747
- ISBN 13
- 9780195168747
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Place of Publication
- New York, Ny, U.s.a
- This edition first published
- July 27, 2005
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