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The Billingtons describe the engineering breakthrough of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Beginning with Edison's system of electric power generation, the book takes the reader through the Bell telephone, the oil refining processes of Burton and Houdry, and the Wright brothers' airplane.Billington, David P. is the author of 'Power, Speed, and Form Engineers and the Making of the Twentieth Century', published 2006 under ISBN 9780691102924 and ISBN 0691102929.
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