Inventing the 20th Century: 100 Inventions That Shaped the World from the Airplane to the Zipper
- ISBN-10
- 0814788122
- ISBN-13
- 9780814788127
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 246
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002-05
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Author
- Stephen van Dulken
Description
Recounts the history of one hundred significant inventions of the twentieth-century.
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- 2002-04-01
- 224 pages
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