[PDF.52hj] American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970

American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970

[PDF.vm46] American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970

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 | #172614 in Books |  2004-06-12 |  2004-06-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.19 x1.70 x6.25l,1.68 | File type: PDF | 548 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Should be read alongside Human-Built World|By Mark S|Starting with a flurry of patents in the late nineteenth century, Hughes traces the history of technological development and its social impact. He begins with independent and dynamic inventor-entrepreneurs who applied a non-theoretical, trial-and-error approach to invention and who needed to appeal to sponsors for funding an|From Publishers Weekly|This potentially interesting yet turgidly written sociological study argues that the fertile era of technological innovation in America, which produced the electric light, the telephone, the automobile and the airplane, among other wonders