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American Genesis A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970

Paperback • 1990 • English

American Genesis A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970

By Thomas Parke Hughes

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This riveting story of America's love affair with technology provides remarkable portraits of the lives and times of the early inventors -- Edison, Bell, the Wright brothers, and charts the changing modes of invention from the age of independent innovation to today's corporate research labs and vast technological systems. This is the powerful and dramatic tale of our nation's incessant impulse to invent and discover, and of our complex relationship with the fruits of this impulse -- a relationsh...Show more

Business strategy
Entrepreneurship / Start-ups
Inventions and inventors

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ISBN

9780140097412

Publisher

Penguin Books

Published year

1990

Language

English

Original title

American Genesis A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970

Format

Paperback

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