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    The engines of our ingenuity : an engineer looks at technology and culture (2000)
    Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 0195135830
    Language: English
    Pages: VIII, 262 S , Ill., graph. Darst , 24 cm
    Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Lienhard, John H. The Engines of Our Ingenuity
    DDC: 303.48/3
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    ZG 8640
    Keywords: Technology Social aspects ; Creative ability in technology ; Engineering ; Creative ability in technology ; Technik ; Kreativität ; Geschichte
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Engines of Our Ingenuity : An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture (2003)
    Cary : Oxford University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780198031031
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (271 pages)
    DDC: 303.48/3
    Abstract: Millions of people have listened to John H. Lienhard's radio program "The Engines of Our Ingenuity." In this fascinating book, Lienhard gathers his reflections on the nature of technology, culture, and human inventiveness. The book brims with insightful observations. Lienhard writes that the history of technology is a history of us--we are the machines we create. Thus farming dramatically changed the rhythms of human life and redirected history. War seldom fuels invention--radar, jets, and the digital computer all emerged before World War II began. And the medieval Church was a driving force behind the growth of Western technology--Cistercian monasteries were virtual factories, whose water wheels cut wood, forged iron, and crushed olives. Lienhard illustrates his themes through inventors, mathematicians, and engineers--with stories of the canoe, the DC-3, the Hoover Dam, the diode, and the sewing machine. We gain new insight as to who we are, through the familiar machines and technologies that are central to our lives.
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    Inventing Modern : Growing Up with X-rays, Skyscrapers and Tailfins (2003)
    Cary : Oxford University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
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    ISBN: 9780198036364
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (443 pages)
    DDC: 303.48/3/097309045
    Abstract: 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 of 20th-century America. An unexpected world emerges from under the more familiar Modern. Beyond the airplanes, radios, art deco, skyscrapers, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Buck Rogers, the culture of the open road-Burma Shave, Kerouac, and White Castles-lie driving forces that set this account of Modern apart. One force, says Lienhard, was a new concept of boyhood-the risk-taking, hands-on savage inventor. Driven by an admiration of recklessness, America developed its technological empire with stunning speed. Bringing the airplane to fruition in so short a time, for example, were people such as Katherine Stinson, Lincoln Beachey, Amelia Earhart, and Charles Lindbergh. The rediscovery of mystery powerfully drove Modern as well. X-Rays, quantum mechanics, and relativity theory had followed electricity and radium. Here we read how, with reality seemingly altered, hope seemed limitless. Lienhard blends these forces with his childhood in the brave new world. The result is perceptive, engaging, and filled with surprise.Whether he talks about Alexander Calder (an engineer whose sculptures were exercises in materials science) or that wacky paean to flight, Flying Down to Rio, unexpected detail emerges from every tile of this large mosaic. Inventing Modern is a personal book that displays, rather than defines, an age that ended before most of us were born. It is an engineer's homage to a time before the bomb and our terrible loss of confidence-a time that might yet rise again out of its own postmodern ashes.
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    The engines of our ingenuity : an engineer looks at technology and culture (2020)
    New York : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780197565483
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (viii, 262 pages) , illustrations (black and white).
    Series Statement: Oxford scholarship online
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.483
    Keywords: Technology Social aspects ; Creative ability in technology
    Abstract: This book explores the nature of creativity in engineering and technology, and how it relates to creativity in art or science. John H. Lienhard uses selected segments of his radio show to create a continuous narrative presenting his insights.
    Note: Previously issued in print: 2000. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record and publisher information
    DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780195135831.001.0001
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    Inventing modern : growing up with x-rays, skyscrapers, and tailfins (2003)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 0195160320
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 292 S. , Ill. , 25cm
    DDC: 303.483097309045
    Keywords: Lienhard Childhood and youth ; Technological innovations Social aspects 20th century ; History ; Technology Social aspects 20th century ; History ; Science Social aspects 20th century ; History ; Material culture Social aspects 20th century ; History ; United States Civilization 20th century
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    The Engines of Our Ingenuity : An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture (2003)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA
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    ISBN: 9780195135831
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (271 p.)
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version The Engines of Our Ingenuity : An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Lienhard, John H., 1930 - The engines of our ingenuity
    DDC: 303.48/3
    RVK:
    ZG 8640
    Keywords: Technology -- Social aspects ; Creative ability in technology ; Electronic books ; local ; Creative ability in technology ; Technology ; Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Technik ; Geschichte ; Ingenieurwissenschaften ; Kreativität
    Abstract: Millions of people have listened to John H. Lienhard's radio program "The Engines of Our Ingenuity." In this fascinating book, Lienhard gathers his reflections on the nature of technology, culture, and human inventiveness. The book brims with insightful observations. Lienhard writes that the history of technology is a history of us--we are the machines we create. Thus farming dramatically changed the rhythms of human life and redirected history. War seldom fuels invention--radar, jets, and the digital computer all emerged before World War II began. And the medieval Church was a drivi
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Preface; 1 Mirrored by Our Machines; 2 God, the Master Craftsman; 3 Looking Inside the Inventive Mind; 4 The Common Place; 5 Science Marries into the Family; 6 Industrial Revolution; 7 Inventing America; 8 Taking Flight; 9 Attitudes and Technological Change; 10 War and Other Ways to Kill People; 11 Major Landmarks; 12 Systems, Design, and Production; 13 Heroic Materialism; 14 Who Got There First; 15 Ever-Present Dangers; 16 Technology and Literature; 17 Being There; Correlation of the Text with the Radio Program; Notes; Index;
    Note: Description based upon print version of record
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    Inventing modern : growing up with x-rays, skyscrapers, and tailfins (2003)
    New York : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 1280532580 , 9781280532580 , 1423784278 , 9781423784272
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (ix, 292 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Print version Inventing modern
    DDC: 303.483097309045
    Keywords: Lienhard, John H. 1930- Childhood and youth ; Lienhard, John H Childhood and youth ; Lienhard, John H Childhood and youth ; Lienhard, John H ; Technological innovations Social aspects ; History ; 20th century ; United States ; Technology Social aspects ; History ; 20th century ; United States ; Science Social aspects ; History ; 20th century ; United States ; Material culture Social aspects ; History ; 20th century ; United States ; Science Social aspects 20th century ; History ; Material culture Social aspects 20th century ; History ; Technology Social aspects 20th century ; History ; Technological innovations Social aspects 20th century ; History ; Material culture Social aspects 20th century ; History ; Science Social aspects 20th century ; History ; Technological innovations Social aspects 20th century ; History ; Technology Social aspects 20th century ; History ; SCIENCE ; Philosophy & Social Aspects ; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING ; Social Aspects ; Civilization ; Material culture ; Social aspects ; Science ; Social aspects ; Technological innovations ; Social aspects ; Technology ; Social aspects ; History ; United States Civilization ; 20th century ; United States Civilization 20th century ; United States Civilization 20th century ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: 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 of 20th-century America. An unexpected world emerges from under the more familiar Modern. Beyond the airplanes, radios, art deco, skyscrapers, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Buck Rogers, the culture of the open road-Burma Shave, Kerouac, and White Castles-lie driving forces that set this account of Modern apart. One force, says Lienhard, was a new concept of boyhood-the risk-taking, hands-on savage inventor. Driven by an admiration of recklessness, America developed its technological empire with stunning speed. Bringing the airplane to fruition in so short a time, for example, were people such as Katherine Stinson, Lincoln Beachey, Amelia Earhart, and Charles Lindbergh. The rediscovery of mystery powerfully drove Modern as well. X-Rays, quantum mechanics, and relativity theory had followed electricity and radium. Here we read how, with reality seemingly altered, hope seemed limitless. Lienhard blends these forces with his childhood in the brave new world. The result is perceptive, engaging, and filled with surprise.; Whether he talks about Alexander Calder (an engineer whose sculptures were exercises in materials science) or that wacky paean to flight, Flying Down to Rio, unexpected detail emerges from every tile of this large mosaic. Inventing Modern is a personal book that displays, rather than defines, an age that ended before most of us were born. It is an engineer's homage to a time before the bomb and our terrible loss of confidence-a time that might yet rise again out of its own postmodern ashes
    Description / Table of Contents: 1846 : great-grandpa and manifest destinyShort-lived technologies : searching for direction -- "The irruption of forces totally new" -- A new genus of genius -- Remington to modern : finding the core on the fringe -- Fires and the high-rise Phoenix -- The titan city -- Automobile -- On the road : of highways and gasoline -- The back door into the sky -- Flying down to Rio -- A boy's life in the new century -- Inventing a better mousetrap -- War -- A funeral in the fifties -- After modern.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-283) and index. - Description based on print version record
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    The engines of our ingenuity : an engineer looks at technology and culture (2003)
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 9780198031031 , 0198031033
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (viii, 262 p.) , ill.
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Lienhard, John H., 1930- Engines of our ingenuity
    DDC: 303.483
    Keywords: Technology Social aspects ; Creative ability in technology ; Technology Social aspects ; Technology ; SCIENCE ; Philosophy & Social Aspects ; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING ; Social Aspects ; Creative ability in technology ; Technology ; Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Millions of people have listened to John H. Lienhard's radio program "The Engines of Our Ingenuity." In this fascinating book, Lienhard gathers his reflections on the nature of technology, culture, and human inventiveness. The book brims with insightful observations. Lienhard writes that the history of technology is a history of us--we are the machines we create. Thus farming dramatically changed the rhythms of human life and redirected history. War seldom fuels invention--radar, jets, and the digital computer all emerged before World War II began. And the medieval Church was a drivi
    Note: "First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2003"--T.p. verso. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-253) and index. - Description based on print version record
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