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100	1		_aBillington, David P., _d1927-2018. _964082
245	1	0	_aPower, speed, and form : _bengineers and the making of the twentieth century / _cDavid P. Billington and David P. Billington Jr.
260			_aPrinceton : _bPrinceton University Press, _c�2006.
300			_a1 online resource (xxv, 269 pages) : _billustrations
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aEngineering case studies online
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 223-255) and index.
505	0	0	_tList of sidebars -- _tList of figures -- _tPreface -- _tAcknowledgments -- _gch. 1. _tThe world's fair of 1876 and 1939 -- _gch. 2. _tEdison, Westinghouse, and electric power -- _gch. 3. _tBell and the telephone -- _gch. 4. _tBurton, Houdry, and the refining of oil -- _gch. 5. _tFord, Sloan, and the automobile -- _gch. 6. _tThe Wright Brothers and the airplane -- _gch. 7. _tRadio : from Hertz to Armstrong -- _gch. 8. _tAmmann and the George Washington bridge -- _gch. 9. _tEastwood, Tedesko, and reinforced concrete -- _gch. 10. _tStreamlining : Chrysler and Douglas -- _tAppendix : The Edison dynamo and the parallel circuit -- _tNotes -- _tIndex.
520			_a[This book] 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. 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.
588	0		_aPrint version record.
546			_aThis edition in English.
590			_aIEEE _bIEEE Xplore Princeton University Press eBooks Library
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776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aBillington, David P. _tPower, speed, and form. _dPrinceton : Princeton University Press, �2006 _z0691102929 _w(DLC) 2005037085 _w(OCoLC)62738583
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