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Inventing modern : growing up with x-rays, skyscrapers, and tailfins /

Modern is a word much used, but hard to pin down. In Inventing Modern, John H. Lienhard uses that word to capture the furious rush of newness in the first half of 20th-century America. An unexpected world emerges from under the more familiar Modern. Beyond the airplanes, radios, art deco, skyscraper...

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Основен автор: Lienhard, John H., 1930-
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Предмети:
Lienhard, John H., > 1930- > Childhood and youth.
Lienhard, John H., > 1930-
Technological innovations > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Technology > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Science > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Material culture > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Social Aspects.
United States > Civilization > 20th century.
Electronic books.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Inventing modern.
Съдържание:
  • 1846 : great-grandpa and manifest destiny
  • Short-lived technologies : searching for direction
  • "The irruption of forces totally new"
  • A new genus of genius
  • Remington to modern : finding the core on the fringe
  • Fires and the high-rise Phoenix
  • The titan city
  • Automobile
  • On the road : of highways and gasoline
  • The back door into the sky
  • Flying down to Rio
  • A boy's life in the new century
  • Inventing a better mousetrap
  • War
  • A funeral in the fifties
  • After modern.

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