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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lienhard, John H., 1930-
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Lienhard, John H., > 1930- > Childhood and youth.
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.
United States > Civilization > 20th century.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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