Title Inventing modern : growing up with x-rays, skyscrapers, and tailfins / John H. Lienhard.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	E169.1 .L53945 2003	Available	---

Description	ix, 292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-283) and index.
Contents	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.
Subject	United States -- Civilization -- 20th century.
	United States.
	Civilization.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Technological innovations -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
	History.
	Technology -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Technology -- Social aspects.
	Science -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Science -- Social aspects.
	Material culture -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Material culture -- Social aspects.
	Material culture.
	Lienhard, John H., 1930- -- Childhood and youth.
	Lienhard, John H., 1930-
ISBN	0195160320 acid-free paper