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Creating the Twentieth Century

Hardcover • 2005 • English

Creating the Twentieth Century

By Vaclav Smil

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The period between 1867 and 1914 remains the greatest watershed in human history since the emergence of settled agricultural societies: the time when an expansive civilization based on synergy of fuels, science, and technical innovation was born. At its beginnings in the 1870s were dynamite, the telephone, photographic film, and the first light bulbs. Its peak decade - the astonishing 1880s - brought electricity - generating plants, electric motors, steam turbines, the gramophone, cars, aluminum...Show more

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9780195168747

Publisher

Oxford University Press Inc

Published year

2005

Language

English

Original title

Creating the Twentieth Century

Format

Hardcover

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