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  title info:
    title: Creating and transforming the twentieth century, revised and expanded
    sub title: technical innovations and their lasting impact
  name:
    name part: Smil, Vaclav
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: 'Creating and Transforming the Twentieth Century' combines two of Vaclav Smil's seminal works in a revised and expanded edition.
  table of contents: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact -- 1 The Great Inheritance -- The Unprecedented Saltation -- The Knowledge Economy -- The Age of Synergy -- The Distance Traveled -- 2 The Age of Electricity -- Fiat Lux: Inventing Electric Lights -- Early Electric Lights -- Edison's R&D Dash -- Edison's Success and Competitors -- Metallic Filaments -- Edison's System -- Dynamos, Engines, Fixtures -- The First Central Plants -- Turbines, Transformers, Motors
  table of contents: Steam Turbines: Laval, Parsons, Curtis -- Transformers -- First Electric Motors -- Adoption of Electric Motors and Their Impact -- Systems Mature and (Not Quite) Standardize -- AC Versus DC -- Expanding Generation and Consumption -- 3 Internal Combustion Engines -- Multiple Beginnings -- Otto and Langen -- Beau de Rochas and Otto: Ideas and Machines -- German Trio and the First Car Engines -- The Diesel Engine -- Creating Car Industry and Car Culture -- Technical Challenges -- Ford's Model -- The First Two Decades -- Expanding Applications -- Heavy-Duty Engines -- Engines in Flight
  table of contents: 4 New Materials and New Syntheses -- Steel Ascendant -- Open-Hearth Furnace -- Steel in Modern Society -- Steel in Construction -- Aluminum -- A Duplicate Discovery -- Mature Hall-Héroult Process -- Industrial Gases -- New Syntheses -- Powerful Explosives -- Ammonia from Its Elements -- Genesis of the Haber-Bosch Process -- Importance of Synthetic Ammonia -- 5 Communication and Information -- Printed Word -- Typesetting and Typewriting -- Papermaking -- Accessible Images -- Cameras, Films, Photographs -- Movies -- Reproducing Sound -- Inventing Telephones -- Recorded Sound -- Hertzian Waves
  table of contents: Wireless Communication -- 6 A New Civilization -- Missing Perspectives -- BC (Before Computers) -- Triumphs, Tragedies, Foibles -- So Much Has Changed -- Enduring Artifacts and Ubiquitous Innovations -- Life Cycles of Innovations -- Markers of a New Era -- High-Energy Societies -- Mechanization and Mass Production -- 7 Contemporary Perceptions -- Part II Transforming the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations and Their Consequences -- 1 Transforming the Twentieth Century: Debts and Advances -- Limits of Causality -- The Unprecedented Saltation -- Transformations and New Departures
  table of contents: Innovations and Inventions -- 2 Energy Conversions: Growth and Innovation -- Fossil-Fueled Societies -- Growth and Performance Plateaus -- Energy Transitions and Relative Decarbonization -- Electrification -- Nuclear Energy -- Nuclear Weapons -- Electricity from Fission -- New Prime Movers -- Turbines in Flight -- Industrial Gas Turbines -- Rocket Engines -- 3 Materials: Old Techniques and New Solutions -- Still the Iron (Steel) Age -- Blast Furnaces -- Steelmaking: Basic Oxygen Furnace and Electric Arc Furnace -- Continuous Casting -- New Paths to Iron -- Accomplishments and Consequences
  target audience: Specialized.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Vaclav Smil.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Technological innovations
    topic: Economic aspects
  subject:
    topic: Technological innovations
    topic: Economic aspects
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Technological innovations
    topic: Economic aspects
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Technological innovations
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Technological innovations
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Innovations
    topic: Aspect économique
  subject:
    topic: Innovations
    topic: Aspect économique
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 19e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Innovations
    topic: Aspect économique
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 20e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Innovations
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 19e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Innovations
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 20e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Economic History
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
  subject:
    topic: Theory
  subject:
    topic: Economics
  subject:
    topic: History & Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: MATHEMATICS
  subject:
    topic: Industry & industrial studies
  subject:
    topic: Industry
  classification: HC79.T4 S645 2025
  classification: 338.064
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    title info:
      title: Creating and transforming the twentieth century
    name:
      name part: Smil, Vaclav.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
      edition: Revised and expanded.
    identifier: (DLC) 2024034838
    identifier: (OCoLC)1482270567
  identifier: 9780197784679
  identifier: 0197784674
  identifier: 9780197784648
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  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 250106
    record change date: 20260319205530.0
    record identifier: in00005727828
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng