Rescuing Prometheus
Subtitle: Four Monumental Projects That Changed the Modern World
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: March 14, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780679739388
Subjects: Current Affairs; Social Aspects; Technology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; General; History; Technology / General
First sentence: MIT assumed this special responsibility wholeheartedly when it became the system builder for the SAGE Project (Semiautomatic Ground Environment), a computer-and radar-based air defense system created in the 1950s.