The Innovators, Trade: The Engineering Pioneers Who Transformed America

In this age of microchips and deep space probes, it's hard to imagine life before electricity or passenger trains. A series of engineering innovations paved the way to the twentieth century, and transformed America into the world's greatest industrial power.

Author: David P. Billington
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 04/26/1996
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.52h x 6.30w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780471140269

About the Author
DAVID P. BILLINGTON, Professor of Civil Engineering at Princeton University, is the author of The Tower and the Bridge and Robert Maillart's Bridges: The Art of Engineering, winner of the 1979 Dexter Prize as the outstanding book on the history of technology.