Engineering in History - Hardcover

Kirby, Richard Shelton, Sidney Withington, Arthur Burr Darling, Frederick Gridley Kilgour.

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9780070347878: Engineering in History

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Synopsis

Broad, nontechnical survey offers fascinating coverage of history's major technological advances: food-producing revolution, appearance of urban society, birth of Greek science, revolution in power, steam and the Industrial Revolution, electricity and the beginnings of applied science, and the age of automatic control. 181 illustrations. "Excellent." — Isis.

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