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American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm

By Thomas P. Hughes

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books
Year
1990
ISBN
0140097414, 9780140097412
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
144 MB (151019381 bytes)
Pages
544\543
Time added
2020-10-27 18:05:40

Description

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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