Innovators, College

Innovators, College

The Engineering Pioneers who Transformed America

Billington, David P.

John Wiley & Sons Inc

09/1996

272

Mole

Inglês

9780471140962

15 a 20 dias

414

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IRON, STEAM, AND EARLY INDUSTRY, 1776-1855.

Modern Engineering and the Transformation of America.

Watt, Telford, and the British Beginnings.

Fulton's Steamboat and the Mississippi.

Lowell and the American Industrial Revolution.

Francis and the Industrial Power Network.

CROSSING THE CONTINENT, 1830-1883.

The Stephensons, Thomson, and the Eastern Railroads.

Henry Morse, and the Telegraph.

St.

Louis versus Chicago and the Continental Railroads.

Carnegie and the Climax of Steel.

Edison and the Network for Light.

The Centennial Revolutions, 1876-1883.

Notes and References.

Index.

Problems.
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