American Genesis
Subtitle: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: June 12, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9780226359274
Subjects: History of science; Technology: General Issues; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Technology & Industrial Arts; History: World; USA; History; Inventions; Technology / History; Europe - General; Technology; United States
First sentence: No other nation has displayed such inventive power and produced such brilliantly original inventors as the United States during the half-century beginning around 1870.
Description: "The book that helped earn Thomas P. Hughes his reputation as one of the foremost historians of technology of our age and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1990, American Genesis tells the sweeping story of America's technological revolution. Unlike other histories of technology, which focus on particular inventions like the light bulb or the automobile, American Genesis makes these inventions characters in a broad chronicle, both shaped by and shaping a culture. By weaving scientific and technological advancement into other cultural trends, Hughes demonstrates here the myriad ways in which the two are inexorably linked, and in a new preface, he recounts his earlier missteps in predicting the future of technology and follows its move into the information age."--BOOK JACKET.