From Insight to Innovation, Engineering Ideas That Transformed America in the Twentieth Century
- Authors
- David Billington
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Tags
- engineering; new deal; information revolution; frank crowe; colorado compact; hoover dam; tennessee valley authority; tva; nuclear power; david lilienthal; franklin roosevelt; arthur morgan; public utilities; highways; skyscrapers; interstate highway; civil engineering; nuclear engineering; computer engineering; mechanical engineering; aerospace engineering; fazlur khan; machines; admiral rickover; nuclear energy; atomic bomb; hyman rickover; fusion; jet engine; rocket; robert goddard; nasa; frank whittle; moon landing; apollo program; bardeen; transistor; silicon; silicon valley; solid-state physics; jack kilby; robert noyce; microchip; gordon moore; fairchild semiconductor; intel; integrated circuit; computer; internet; steve jobs; steve wozniak; apple computer; microsoft; bill gates
- Date
- 2020-10-23
- Size
- 10.33 MB
- Lang
- en
The engineering ideas behind key twentieth-century technical innovations, from great dams and highways to the jet engine, the transistor, the microchip, and the computer.