American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm
Thomas P. Hughes
This riveting story of America's love affair with technology provides remarkable portraits of the lives and times of the early inventors -- Edison, Bell, the Wright brothers, and charts the changing modes of invention from the age of independent innovation to today's corporate research labs and vast technological systems. This is the powerful and dramatic tale of our nation's incessant impulse to invent and discover, and of our complex relationship with the fruits of this impulse -- a relationship that finds us liberated, dependent, enthusiastic, and skeptical all at once.
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Рік:
1990
Видавництво:
Penguin Books
Мова:
english
Сторінки:
544
ISBN 10:
0140097414
ISBN 13:
9780140097412
Файл:
PDF, 144.02 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1990