David P. Billington

From Insight to Innovation (eBook, ePUB)

Engineering Ideas That Transformed America in the Twentieth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

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. 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780262359689
• Artikelnr.: 58743564

Autorenporträt

David P. Billington, Jr., is a historian and author of books and articles exploring the history of engineering innovation.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Rivers and Regions: The Age of Frank Crowe 
...........................    11
2. Morgan, Lilienthal, and the Tennessee Valley Authority 
................    47
3. Highways and Skyscrapers: MacDonald and Khan  ......................   
81
4. Rickover and Nuclear Power 
................................................  119
5. The Jet Engine and the Rocket: Whittle, Goddard, and NASA  ........  143
6. Bardeen and the Transistor 
.................................................  179
7. Kilby, Noyce, and the Microchip 
..........................................  207
8. The Computer and the Internet: The Age of Steve Jobs  ............... 
235