[PDF.76fj] Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact (Technical Revolutions and Their Lasting Impact)

Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact (Technical Revolutions and Their Lasting Impact)

[PDF.ao58] Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact (Technical Revolutions and Their Lasting Impact)

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||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| A Real Technical Review of the Industrial Revolution|By William A. Thayer|I have been interested in reading about the Industrial Revolution. Vaclav Smil has written the best book on the subject I have found. Now the entire Industrial Revolution actually started with the steam engine in the 18th century whereas Mr. Smil concentrates on just the period 1867-1914. This is reall| ||"[Smil's] scholarship mocks the boundaries that separate history from economics, geography from technology studies. He is unusually adept at combining his knowledge of how techniques actually work with his ability to illustrate their overall effects on societ

The period between 1867 and 1914 remains the greatest watershed in human history since the emergence of settled agricultural societies: the time when an expansive civilization based on synergy of fuels, science, and technical innovation was born. At its beginnings in the 1870s were dynamite, the telephone, photographic film, and the first light bulbs. Its peak decade - the astonishing 1880s - brought electricity - generating plants, electric motors, steam turbines, the g...

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