عنوان

Inventing modern :

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0195160320

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0198036361

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1280532580

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1423784278

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6610532583

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9780195160321

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9780198036364

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9781280532580

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9781423784272

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9786610532582

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0195160320

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b766049

عنوان اصلي

Inventing modern :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

growing up with x-rays, skyscrapers, and tailfins /

نام نخستين پديدآور

John H. Lienhard.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

New York :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Oxford University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2003.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

1 online resource (ix, 292 pages) :

ساير جزييات

illustrations

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-283) and index.

متن يادداشت

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.

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

Modern is a word much used, but hard to pin down. In Inventing Modern, John H. Lienhard uses that word to capture the furious rush of newness in the first half of 20th-century America. An unexpected world emerges from under the more familiar Modern. Beyond the airplanes, radios, art deco, skyscrapers, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Buck Rogers, the culture of the open road-Burma Shave, Kerouac, and White Castles-lie driving forces that set this account of Modern apart. One force, says Lienhard, was a new concept of boyhood-the risk-taking, hands-on savage inventor. Driven by an admiration of recklessness, America developed its technological empire with stunning speed. Bringing the airplane to fruition in so short a time, for example, were people such as Katherine Stinson, Lincoln Beachey, Amelia Earhart, and Charles Lindbergh. The rediscovery of mystery powerfully drove Modern as well. X-Rays, quantum mechanics, and relativity theory had followed electricity and radium. Here we read how, with reality seemingly altered, hope seemed limitless. Lienhard blends these forces with his childhood in the brave new world. The result is perceptive, engaging, and filled with surprise.; Whether he talks about Alexander Calder (an engineer whose sculptures were exercises in materials science) or that wacky paean to flight, Flying Down to Rio, unexpected detail emerges from every tile of this large mosaic. Inventing Modern is a personal book that displays, rather than defines, an age that ended before most of us were born. It is an engineer's homage to a time before the bomb and our terrible loss of confidence-a time that might yet rise again out of its own postmodern ashes.

عنوان

Inventing modern.

موضوع مستند نشده

Lienhard, John H.,1930-Childhood and youth.

موضوع مستند نشده

Lienhard, John H.,1930-

موضوع مستند نشده

Material culture-- Social aspects-- United States-- History-- 20th century.

موضوع مستند نشده

Science-- Social aspects-- United States-- History-- 20th century.

موضوع مستند نشده

Technological innovations-- Social aspects-- United States-- History-- 20th century.

موضوع مستند نشده

Technology-- Social aspects-- United States-- History-- 20th century.

موضوع مستند نشده

Civilization.

موضوع مستند نشده

Material culture-- Social aspects.

موضوع مستند نشده

SCIENCE-- Philosophy & Social Aspects.

موضوع مستند نشده

Science-- Social aspects.

موضوع مستند نشده

Technological innovations-- Social aspects.

موضوع مستند نشده

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING-- Social Aspects.

موضوع مستند نشده

Technology-- Social aspects.

موضوع مستند نشده

United States, Civilization, 20th century.

موضوع مستند نشده

United States.

بدون عنوان

0

بدون عنوان

7

موضوع مستند نشده

PN

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SCI-- 075000

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TEC-- 052000

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Lienhard, John H.,1930-

تاريخ عمليات

20201206112827.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

pn

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y