From insight to innovation: (Record no. 4212)

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International Standard Book Number 9780262044301
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Classification number 620.0097309045
Item number BIL
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Personal name Billington, David P.
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Title From insight to innovation:
Remainder of title engineering ideas that transformed America in the twentieth century
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. MIT press
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Cambridge
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2020
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xiii, 321 p.
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Price type code USD
Price amount 34.95
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. The engineering ideas behind key twentieth-century technical innovations, from great dams and highways to the jet engine, the transistor, the microchip, and the computer.<br/><br/>Technology is essential to modern life, yet few of us are technology-literate enough to know much about the engineering that underpins it. In this book, David P. Billington, Jr., offers accessible accounts of the key twentieth-century engineering innovations that brought us into the twenty-first century. Billington examines a series of engineering advances—from Hoover Dam and jet engines to the transistor, the microchip, the computer, and the internet—and explains how they came about and how they work.<br/><br/>Each of these innovations tells a unique story. The great dams of the New Deal brought huge rivers under control, and a national highway system interconnected the nation, as did jet air travel. The transistor and the microchip originated in the private sector and found a mass market after early government support. The computer and the internet began as government projects and found a mass market later in the private sector. Billington finds that engineers with unconventional insights could succeed in a bureaucratic age; what mattered were independent vision and a society that welcomed innovation.<br/><br/>This book completes the story of American engineering begun with the earlier volumes The Innovators (by the author's father) and Power, Speed, and Form (by the author and his father).
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Technological innovations
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Engineering
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Operations Management & Quantitative Techniques IB/IN/779 24-11-2022 Indian Institute of Management LRC Indian Institute of Management LRC General Stacks 12/16/2022 International Book Centre 1900.42   620.0097309045 BIL 004041 12/16/2022 1 2890.37 12/16/2022 Book

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