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020 $a9780198037743 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
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100 1 $aSmil, Vaclav $q(Vaclav Smil).
245 10 $aCreating the Twentieth Century$h[electronic resource].
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2007.
500 $aTitle from eBook information screen.
520 $aThe 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....
533 $aElectronic reproduction.$bNew York :$cOxford University Press,$d2007.$nRequires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 9022 KB).
538 $aRequires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 9022 KB).
653 #0 $aBusiness
653 #0 $aNonfiction
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