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Twelve Inventions Which Changed America

Twelve Inventions Which Changed America

TWELVE INVENTIONS WHICH CHANGEPB

Gerhard Falk

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Bloomsbury Publishing plc
Año de edición:
2013
Materia
Sociedad y cultura: general
ISBN:
9780761860808
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Gerhard Falk describes twelve inventions that transformed the United States from a rural and small-town community to an industrial country of unprecedented power. The book is both a sociological analysis and a history of technology in the United States in the past two hundred years.

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