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A century of innovation : twenty engineering achievements that transformed our lives

Title
  1. A century of innovation : twenty engineering achievements that transformed our lives / George Constable and Bob Somerville ; foreword by Neil Armstrong ; afterword by Arthur C. Clarke.
Published by
  1. Washington, D.C. : Joseph Henry Press, ©2003.
Author
  1. Constable, George.

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Additional authors
  1. Somerville, Bob.
Description
  1. vii, 248 pages : illustrations (some color); 31 cm
Summary
  1. As the world eagerly looked forward to the dawn of a new millennium, the turning of the calendar also represented an opportunity to pause and reflect on the tremendous ingenuity and invention that marked the previous hundred years. Electricity, automobiles, telephones, radio, television, computers? these are a just a few of the innovations the decades had introduced - all compliments of the world's engineers.
Subject
  1. Technological innovations
  2. Engineering > Technological innovations
  3. Technische vernieuwing
  4. KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS
  5. MANAGEMENT METHODS
  6. INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
  7. INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
  8. ENGINEERING
Contents
  1. Electrification -- Automobile -- Airplane -- Water supply and distribution -- Electronics -- Radio and television -- Agricultural mechanization -- Computers -- Telephony -- Air conditioning and refrigeration -- Highways -- Spacecraft -- Internet -- Imaging -- Household appliances -- Health technologies -- Petroleum and petrochemical technologies -- Lasers and fiber optics -- Nuclear technologies -- High performance materials.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. Includes index.