Creating the Twentieth Century
by Vaclav Smil
- ISBN
- 9781281196910
Creating the Twentieth Century è un technological innovations, history book di Vaclav Smil.
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The period between 1867 and 1914 remains the greatest watershed in human history since the emergence of settled agricultural societies: the time when an expansive civilization based on synergy of fuels, science, and technical innovation was born. At its beginnings in the 1870s were dynamite,the telephone, photographic film, and the first light bulbs. Its peak decade - the astonishing 1880s - brought electricity - generating plants, electric motors, steam turbines, the gramophone, cars, aluminum production, air-filled rubber tires, and prestressed concrete. And its post-1900 period sawthe first airplanes, tractors, radio signals and plastics, neon lights and assembly line production. This book is a systematic interdisciplinary account of the history of this outpouring of European and American intellect and of its truly epochal consequences....
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Di che genere è Creating the Twentieth Century?+
Creating the Twentieth Century è un libro di Technological innovations, History, Business, Non-Fiction.
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The period between 1867 and 1914 remains the greatest watershed in human history since the emergence of settled agricultural societies: the time when an expansive civilization based on synergy of fuels, science, and technical innovation was born. At its beginnings in the 1870s were dynamite,the tele...
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Creating the Twentieth Century è stato scritto da Vaclav Smil.