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 |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
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. |
365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
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 |