Inventing Modern America profiles 35 inventors who exemplify the rich technological creativity of the United States over the past century. The inventors profile

A sweeping history of the electric light revolution and the birth of modern America The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativi

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Sarah Burns tells the story of artists in American society during a period of critical transition from Victorian to modern values, examining how culture shaped

Modern is a word much used, but hard to pin down. In Inventing Modern, John H. Lienhard uses that word to capture the furious rush of newness in the first half