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Title Inventors and discoverers : changing our world / [prepared by National Geographic Book Service].

Imprint Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, c1988.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  609 Inv    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 320 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Note Includes index.
Contents Discovers & inventors / Daniel J. Boorstin -- The power of steam / Margaret Sedeen - The age of electricity / Stephen S. Hall -- On wheels & wings / Tom D. Crouch -- A world of new materials / Robert Friedel -- Capturing the image / Thomas B. Allen -- Messages by wireless / Fred Strebeigh -- Power particles / Richard Rhodes -- Computers & chips / T.R. Reid -- Engineering life / H. Garrett DeYoung -- Technology of tomorrow / Carole Douglis.
Subject Inventions -- History.
Added Author National Geographic Book Service.
ISBN 0870447513

 
    
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