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Author Brown, David E.

Title Inventing modern America : from the microwave to the mouse / text by David E. Brown ; foreword by Lester C. Thurow ; introductions by James Burke.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2002.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  609.73 Bro    ---  Available
Description xi, 209 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Note "A publication of the Lemelson-MIT program for invention and innovation."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Indexed In: Kirkus Review 10/01/2001
Booklist 12/01/2001
Summary Profiles the lives and works of thirty-five of America's significant twentieth-century inventors and discusses the ways in which their inventions have changed the ways in which we live.
Source ILDP 3/2005 PPLY
Subject Inventions -- United States -- History.
Inventors -- United States -- Biography.
Inventions -- United States -- History.
Inventors -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN 0262025086
0262523493 (pbk.)

 
    
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