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Author Smil, Vaclav.

Title Transforming the twentieth century : technical innovations and their consequences / Vaclav Smil
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (x, 358 pages) : illustrations, maps
Summary Post-WWI inventions transformed the technical advances that created the modern world, & added new capabilities ranging from both military uses of nuclear energy to the universal diffusion of microprocessors. This book examines most of these technical transformations, & appraises their economic, social, & strategic impacts
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-340) and indexes
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Subject Technological innovations -- History -- 20th century
Technological innovations.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0195168755
9780195168754
9780199783601
0199783608
Other Titles Title at head of online table of contents page: Transforming the twentieth century: Volume 2: Technical innovations and their consequences
Technical innovations and their consequences