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Engineering in History
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Author/Editor: Richard Shelton Kirby
ISBN 10:0486264122
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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...  read more
 


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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.
Reprint of the McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1956 edition.

Product Details:

ISBN 10: 0486264122
ISBN 13: 9780486264127
Author/Editor: Richard Shelton Kirby
Format: Book
Page Count: 544
Dimensions: 5 3/8 x 8 1/2
Publication date: August 1990
Table of Contents: Click here to view the Table of Contents

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