| Description |
viii, 248 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Ned Ludd versus the industrial revolution : are machines the problem? -- Davy versus Stephenson : who invented the miner's safety lamp? -- Morse versus Jackson and Henry : the electromagnetic telegraph -- Edison versus Westinghouse : the AD/DC war -- Ford versus Selden and ALAM : automobile manufacturing -- Wright Brothers versus Curtiss, Chanute, Ader, Whitehead, and other : the first successful flying machine -- Sarnoff versus Farnsworth : the fathers of television -- Rickover versus Zumwalt (and just about everyone else) : nuclear submarines and a nuclear Navy -- Venter versus Collins : decoding the human genome -- Rifkin versus the Monsanto Company : battling the biotech world |
| Analysis |
Technological change |
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Inventions |
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Patents |
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History |
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Overseas item |
| Notes |
Includes Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references: pages [ 221]-238 |
| Subject |
Technology -- History.
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Technology -- Miscellanea.
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Technology -- History -- Miscellanea.
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| Genre/Form |
Trivia and miscellanea.
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| LC no. |
2004299344 |
| ISBN |
0471208671 |
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