Creating the Twentieth Century
Subtitle: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact (Technical Revolutions and Their Lasting Impact)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: July 27, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9780195168747
First sentence: Imagine an exceedingly sapient and durable civilization that began scanning a bubble of space, say 100 light years in diameter, for signs of intelligent life about half a billion years ago.