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Enterprise and Society Advance Access published online on December 7, 2007
Enterprise and Society, doi:10.1093/es/khm090
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David P. Billington and David P. Billington, Jr. Power, Speed, and Form: Engineers and the Making of the Twentieth Century

David P. Billington and David P. Billington, Jr. Power, Speed, and Form: Engineers and the Making of the Twentieth Century. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006. xxv + 270 pp. ISBN 0-691-10292-9, $29.95 (cloth)

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This is an enjoyable book. Historians of technology will find it especially appealing, but this book deserves—and will no doubt find—a wide audience. The Billingtons, a father-son team of engineer and historian, have written an engaging and comprehensible account of modern engineering. They examine eight technologies fundamental to the modern world: electric power, the telephone, oil refining, the automobile, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

David Hochfelder

State University of New York at Albany


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