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- Book Title
- Power, Speed, and Form: Engineers and the Making of the Twentieth
- ISBN
- 9780691102924
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Science
- Topic
- Engineering (General), Earth Sciences / Geography, History
- Item Width
- 8.8in
- Item Weight
- 30.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 296 Pages
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Power, Speed, and Form is the first accessible account of the engineering behind eight breakthrough innovations that transformed American life from 1876 to 1939--the telephone, electric power, oil refining, the automobile, the airplane, radio, the long-span steel bridge, and building with reinforced concrete. Beginning with Thomas Edison's system to generate and distribute electric power, the authors explain the Bell telephone, the oil refining processes of William Burton and Eugene Houdry, Henry Ford's Model T car and the response by General Motors, the Wright brothers' airplane, radio innovations from Marconi to Armstrong, Othmar Ammann's George Washington Bridge, the reinforced concrete structures of John Eastwood and Anton Tedesko, and in the 1930s, the Chrysler Airflow car and the Douglas DC-3 airplane. These innovations used simple numerical ideas, which the Billingtons integrate with short narrative accounts of each breakthrough--a unique and effective way to introduce engineering and how engineers think. The book shows how the best engineering exemplifies efficiency, economy and, where possible, elegance. With Power, Speed, and Form , educators, first-year engineering students, liberal arts students, and general readers now have, for the first time in one volume, an accessible and readable history of engineering achievements that were vital to America's development and that are still the foundations of modern life.
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Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691102929
ISBN-13
9780691102924
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53936990
Product Key Features
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Engineering (General), Earth Sciences / Geography, History
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Science
Number of Pages
296 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
8.8in
Item Weight
30.1 Oz
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Ta23.B48 2006
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"The authors discuss eight transformative inventions . . . within their sociocultural context. They also examine the lives of the inventors as well as the cumulative process of invention. The superb figures . . . and many photos nicely illustrate the Billingtons' overriding themes: the importance of technological literacy and the fact that original engineering is based on simple ideas."-- Library Journal, David P. Billington and David P. Billington, Jr., hope that their new book will increase technological literacy among college students. But this well-written and nicely illustrated volume may also reach a broader audiences. Power, Speed, and Form will introduce engineering students to eminent predecessors from whom there is still much to learn, especially about the use of numerical language. This book will also help students in other disciplines appreciate engineering approaches to problem solving. ---Thomas P. Hughes, American Scientist, Power, Speed, and Form is physically an extraordinary volume...chock full of the most extraordinary photos.... Yet this is not a picture book. It is a serious history of the development of American technology in the period between the year 1876...and 1939.... [W]hat is unique, and what, along with the illustrations, makes this book something of a treasure, is the inclusion of more than forty sidebars, each a full-page explication in words, numerical formulas, and splendidly clear diagrams, of the historic innovations discussed in the text., "Power, Speed, and Form is physically an extraordinary volume...chock full of the most extraordinary photos.... Yet this is not a picture book. It is a serious history of the development of American technology in the period between the year 1876...and 1939.... [W]hat is unique, and what, along with the illustrations, makes this book something of a treasure, is the inclusion of more than forty sidebars, each a full-page explication in words, numerical formulas, and splendidly clear diagrams, of the historic innovations discussed in the text."-- Samuel C. Florman, Technology and Culture, "The authors . . . discuss the development of each [innovation] in a way that is readily accessible to building engineers and non-engineers--their ultimate purpose. . . . The book, then, was meant to serve as a text for introductory engineering courses, especially those designed to help liberal arts students satisfy technical literacy requirements. Such courses can also excite engineering students by explaining how many innovations sprang from ideas that though novel were relatively simple."-- Ray Bert, Civil Engineering, "The book is a sequel to The Innovators (1996), which covered American engineering from 1776 to 1883; the two books together explain the principal engineering ideas that helped transform the U.S. from an agrarian society in the eighteenth century to the industrial civilization it became in the twentieth century." --George Cohen, Booklist, "This book fills an important need for a work that straddles the literacy-numeracy divide. It is a useful historical synthesis of the technical foundations of the American experience in the twentieth century." --Robert Friedel, University of Maryland, author of Zipper: An Exploration in Novelty, By introducing the fundamental theories upon which various significant technological achievements are based, Billington Sr. . . . and Billington Jr. . . . shed light on the unseen foundations of invention. . . . A remarkable accomplishment of this book is that it presents these theories and equations in a manner that is understandable to general readers, rather than accessible only to engineers or scientists. Thus, it fills a much-needed role in helping to enhance technological literacy and understanding among the general public. . . . Highly recommended. -- Choice, David P. Billington and David P. Billington, Jr., hope that their new book will increase technological literacy among college students. But this well-written and nicely illustrated volume may also reach a broader audiences. Power, Speed, and Form will introduce engineering students to eminent predecessors from whom there is still much to learn, especially about the use of numerical language. This book will also help students in other disciplines appreciate engineering approaches to problem solving. -- Thomas P. Hughes, American Scientist, [A] coherent and appealing approach, introducing engineering as a historical sequence of ideas and events, part of a canon of great ideas. . . . [A]n engaging narrative that explores the work of key innovators. . . . For the Billingtons, design is the primary function of engineering, one that distinguishes it from science. -- Robin Tatu, ASEE Prism, [A] coherent and appealing approach, introducing engineering as a historical sequence of ideas and events, part of a canon of great ideas. . . . [A]n engaging narrative that explores the work of key innovators. . . . For the Billingtons, design is the primary function of engineering, one that distinguishes it from science., "By introducing the fundamental theories upon which various significant technological achievements are based, Billington Sr. . . . and Billington Jr. . . . shed light on the unseen foundations of invention. . . . A remarkable accomplishment of this book is that it presents these theories and equations in a manner that is understandable to general readers, rather than accessible only to engineers or scientists. Thus, it fills a much-needed role in helping to enhance technological literacy and understanding among the general public. . . . Highly recommended." -- Choice, "[A] coherent and appealing approach, introducing engineering as a historical sequence of ideas and events, part of a canon of great ideas. . . . [A]n engaging narrative that explores the work of key innovators. . . . For the Billingtons, design is the primary function of engineering, one that distinguishes it from science."-- Robin Tatu, ASEE Prism, [A] coherent and appealing approach, introducing engineering as a historical sequence of ideas and events, part of a canon of great ideas. . . . [A]n engaging narrative that explores the work of key innovators. . . . For the Billingtons, design is the primary function of engineering, one that distinguishes it from science. ---Robin Tatu, ASEE Prism, The authors discuss eight transformative inventions . . . within their sociocultural context. They also examine the lives of the inventors as well as the cumulative process of invention. The superb figures . . . and many photos nicely illustrate the Billingtons' overriding themes: the importance of technological literacy and the fact that original engineering is based on simple ideas., David P. Billington and David P. Billington, Jr., hope that their new book will increase technological literacy among college students. But this well-written and nicely illustrated volume may also reach a broader audiences. Power, Speed, and Form will introduce engineering students to eminent predecessors from whom there is still much to learn, especially about the use of numerical language. This book will also help students in other disciplines appreciate engineering approaches to problem solving., "Power, Speed, and Form is physically an extraordinary volume...chock full of the most extraordinary photos.... Yet this is not a picture book. It is a serious history of the development of American technology in the period between the year 1876...and 1939.... [W]hat is unique, and what, along with the illustrations, makes this book something of a treasure, is the inclusion of more than forty sidebars, each a full-page explication in words, numerical formulas, and splendidly clear diagrams, of the historic innovations discussed in the text." --Samuel C. Florman, Technology and Culture, The authors . . . discuss the development of each [innovation] in a way that is readily accessible to building engineers and non-engineers--their ultimate purpose. . . . The book, then, was meant to serve as a text for introductory engineering courses, especially those designed to help liberal arts students satisfy technical literacy requirements. Such courses can also excite engineering students by explaining how many innovations sprang from ideas that though novel were relatively simple. -- Ray Bert, Civil Engineering, "The authors . . . discuss the development of each [innovation] in a way that is readily accessible to building engineers and non-engineers--their ultimate purpose. . . . The book, then, was meant to serve as a text for introductory engineering courses, especially those designed to help liberal arts students satisfy technical literacy requirements. Such courses can also excite engineering students by explaining how many innovations sprang from ideas that though novel were relatively simple." --Ray Bert, Civil Engineering, The authors . . . discuss the development of each [innovation] in a way that is readily accessible to building engineers and non-engineers--their ultimate purpose. . . . The book, then, was meant to serve as a text for introductory engineering courses, especially those designed to help liberal arts students satisfy technical literacy requirements. Such courses can also excite engineering students by explaining how many innovations sprang from ideas that though novel were relatively simple., Power, Speed, and Form is physically an extraordinary volume...chock full of the most extraordinary photos.... Yet this is not a picture book. It is a serious history of the development of American technology in the period between the year 1876...and 1939.... [W]hat is unique, and what, along with the illustrations, makes this book something of a treasure, is the inclusion of more than forty sidebars, each a full-page explication in words, numerical formulas, and splendidly clear diagrams, of the historic innovations discussed in the text. -- Samuel C. Florman, Technology and Culture, The authors discuss eight transformative inventions . . . within their sociocultural context. They also examine the lives of the inventors as well as the cumulative process of invention. The superb figures . . . and many photos nicely illustrate the Billingtons' overriding themes: the importance of technological literacy and the fact that original engineering is based on simple ideas. -- Library Journal, "The book is a sequel to The Innovators (1996), which covered American engineering from 1776 to 1883; the two books together explain the principal engineering ideas that helped transform the U.S. from an agrarian society in the eighteenth century to the industrial civilization it became in the twentieth century."-- George Cohen, Booklist, "The authors discuss eight transformative inventions . . . within their sociocultural context. They also examine the lives of the inventors as well as the cumulative process of invention. The superb figures . . . and many photos nicely illustrate the Billingtons' overriding themes: the importance of technological literacy and the fact that original engineering is based on simple ideas." -- Library Journal, The book is a sequel to The Innovators (1996), which covered American engineering from 1776 to 1883; the two books together explain the principal engineering ideas that helped transform the U.S. from an agrarian society in the eighteenth century to the industrial civilization it became in the twentieth century. -- George Cohen, Booklist, "David P. Billington and David P. Billington, Jr., hope that their new book will increase technological literacy among college students. But this well-written and nicely illustrated volume may also reach a broader audiences. Power, Speed, and Form will introduce engineering students to eminent predecessors from whom there is still much to learn, especially about the use of numerical language. This book will also help students in other disciplines appreciate engineering approaches to problem solving." --Thomas P. Hughes, American Scientist, "[A] coherent and appealing approach, introducing engineering as a historical sequence of ideas and events, part of a canon of great ideas. . . . [A]n engaging narrative that explores the work of key innovators. . . . For the Billingtons, design is the primary function of engineering, one that distinguishes it from science." --Robin Tatu, ASEE Prism, "David P. Billington and David P. Billington, Jr., hope that their new book will increase technological literacy among college students. But this well-written and nicely illustrated volume may also reach a broader audiences. Power, Speed, and Form will introduce engineering students to eminent predecessors from whom there is still much to learn, especially about the use of numerical language. This book will also help students in other disciplines appreciate engineering approaches to problem solving."-- Thomas P. Hughes, American Scientist, "By introducing the fundamental theories upon which various significant technological achievements are based, Billington Sr. . . . and Billington Jr. . . . shed light on the unseen foundations of invention. . . . A remarkable accomplishment of this book is that it presents these theories and equations in a manner that is understandable to general readers, rather than accessible only to engineers or scientists. Thus, it fills a much-needed role in helping to enhance technological literacy and understanding among the general public. . . . Highly recommended."-- Choice, The book is a sequel to The Innovators (1996), which covered American engineering from 1776 to 1883; the two books together explain the principal engineering ideas that helped transform the U.S. from an agrarian society in the eighteenth century to the industrial civilization it became in the twentieth century. ---George Cohen, Booklist, By introducing the fundamental theories upon which various significant technological achievements are based, Billington Sr. . . . and Billington Jr. . . . shed light on the unseen foundations of invention. . . . A remarkable accomplishment of this book is that it presents these theories and equations in a manner that is understandable to general readers, rather than accessible only to engineers or scientists. Thus, it fills a much-needed role in helping to enhance technological literacy and understanding among the general public. . . . Highly recommended., The authors . . . discuss the development of each [innovation] in a way that is readily accessible to building engineers and non-engineers--their ultimate purpose. . . . The book, then, was meant to serve as a text for introductory engineering courses, especially those designed to help liberal arts students satisfy technical literacy requirements. Such courses can also excite engineering students by explaining how many innovations sprang from ideas that though novel were relatively simple. ---Ray Bert, Civil Engineering, Power, Speed, and Form is physically an extraordinary volume...chock full of the most extraordinary photos.... Yet this is not a picture book. It is a serious history of the development of American technology in the period between the year 1876...and 1939.... [W]hat is unique, and what, along with the illustrations, makes this book something of a treasure, is the inclusion of more than forty sidebars, each a full-page explication in words, numerical formulas, and splendidly clear diagrams, of the historic innovations discussed in the text. ---Samuel C. Florman, Technology and Culture, The book is a sequel to The Innovators (1996), which covered American engineering from 1776 to 1883; the two books together explain the principal engineering ideas that helped transform the U.S. from an agrarian society in the eighteenth century to the industrial civilization it became in the twentieth century., "This important book makes a significant and unique contribution to the cause of technological literacy. It will be of great value to nonspecialists and general readers precisely because of its introduction of simple equations and formulas: these sharpen and focus the technical argument without obscuring it with vague language or, worse, jargon." --Henry Petroski, Duke University, author of Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design
Publication Name
Power, Speed, and Form : Engineers and the Making of the Twentieth Century
Copyright Date
2007
Lccn
2005-037085
Dewey Decimal
620.00973
Intended Audience
College Audience
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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