Transforming the Twentieth Century Technical Innovations and Their Consequences |
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| Author:
| Smil, Vaclav |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-516875-4 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2006 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $83.00 |
Book Description:
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Post-WW1 inventions and innovations transformed the fundamental technical advances that created the modern world between 1867 and 1914 and added new capabilities ranging from both commercial and military uses of nuclear energy to the universal diffusion of microprocessors. This book examines all of these techincal transformations and appraises their economic, social, strategic and environmental impacts.
Post-WW1 inventions and innovations transformed the fundamental technical advances that created the modern world between 1867 and 1914 and added new capabilities ranging from both commercial and military uses of nuclear energy to the universal diffusion of microprocessors. This book examines all of these techincal transformations and appraises their economic, social, strategic and environmental impacts.