Inventing modern : growing up with x-rays, skyscrapers, and tailfins / John H. Lienhard.

Author: Lienhard, John H., 1930-

Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Descriptionix, 292 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Note: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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-283) and index.

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