TY - BOOK AU - Billington, David P. AU - ; Billington, David P. AU - David P Billington. TI - Power, Speed, and Form: : Engineers and the Making of the Twentieth Century SN - 9780691242408 U1 - 620.009 BIL PY - 2022/// CY - , New Jersey PB - : Princeton Univ Press KW - Engineers KW - electric power KW - Automobile, the airplane N2 - Presents an account of the engineering behind eight breakthrough innovations that transformed American life from 1876 to 1939 - the telephone, electric power, oil refining, the automobile, the airplane, radio, the long-span steel bridge, and building with reinforced concrete ER -