Research Catalog

Title

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.

Author

Constable, George.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Joseph Henry Press, ©2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

Somerville, Bob.

Description

vii, 248 pages : illustrations (some color); 31 cm

Summary

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.

Subjects

• ENGINEERING
• INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
• INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
• MANAGEMENT METHODS
• KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS
• Technische vernieuwing
• Technological innovations
• Engineering > Technological innovations

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 0309089085
• 9780309089081

LCCN

2003019019

OCLC

• ocm52876181
• 52876181
• SCSB-1312434

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library