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Creating the Twentieth Century
Vaclav Smil
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Description for Creating the Twentieth Century
Hardcover. The two pre-WWI generations encompass the greatest innovative period in history. Technical inventions of 1867 - 1914 and their rapid improvement and commercialization created new prime movers, materials, infrastructures and information means that provided the lasting foundations of the modern world. Num Pages: 368 pages, numerous halftones and line drawings. BIC Classification: TB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 229 x 28. Weight in Grams: 632.
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 saw the first airplanes, tractors, radio signals and plastics, neon lights and assembly line ... Read more
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 saw the first airplanes, tractors, radio signals and plastics, neon lights and assembly line ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
359
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Weight
631g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195168747
SKU
V9780195168747
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Vaclav Smil
Vaclav Smil is Distinguished Professor at the University of Manitoba, and the author of 19 books, including Feeding the World (MIT Press, 2000), Enriching the Earth: Transformation of World Food Production (MIT Press 2001 , and Energy at the Crossroads (MIT Press 2003).
Reviews for Creating the Twentieth Century
Smil's scholarship mocks the boundaries that separate history from economics, geography from technology studies. He is unusually adept at combining his knowledge of how techniques actually work with his ability to illustrate their overall effects on society and the human condition. The amount of pure learning and erudition that Smil brings to these 700 pages has to be experienced to ... Read more