Engineering in History

Name: Words of the equestrian
Item: Engineering in History (Dover Books on Engineering)
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by Arthur Burr Darling, Sidney Whithington, Richard Shelton Kirby, et al.

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Broad, nontechnical survey offers fascinating coverage of history's major technological advances: food-producing revolution, appearance of urban society, birth of Greek science, revolution in power, steam and the Industrial Revolution, electricity and the beginnings of applied science, and the age of automatic control. 181 illustrations. "Excellent." -- Isis.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0486264122

ISBN13:9780486264127

Release Date:August 1990

Publisher:Dover Publications

Length:544 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 5.4" x 8.6"

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Words of the equestrian

Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago

This book does a fantastic job of explaining the history of Engineering, and how it affected the civilizations that used it.

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