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Subject(s)

• Engineering—United States—History [Browse]
• Technological innovations—United States—History [Browse]
• Engineers—United States [Browse]

Related name

• ProQuest (Firm) [Browse]

Series

Wiley popular science [More in this series]

Restrictions note

Use copy

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-236) and index.

Reproduction note

• Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
• Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

System details

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

Source of description

Print version record.

Contents

• pt. 1. Iron, steam, and early industry, 1776-1855. Modern engineering and the transformation of America
• Watt, Telford, and the British beginnings
• Fulton's steamboat and the Mississippi
• Lowell and the American industrial revolution
• Francis and the industrial power network
• pt. 2. Crossing the continent, 1830-1883. The Stephensons, Thomson, and the eastern railroads
• Henry, Morse, and the telegraph
• St. Louis versus Chicago and the continental railroads
• Carnegie and the climax of steel
• Edison and the network for light
• The Centennial revolutions, 1876-1883.

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OCLC

603697319

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