Transforming the Twentieth Century Technical Innovations and Their Consequences

Vaclav Smil

Overview

Post-WWI inventions transformed the technical advances that created the modern world, & added new capabilities ranging from both military uses of nuclear energy to the universal diffusion of microprocessors. This book examines most of these technical transformations, & appraises their economic, social, & strategic impacts.

Details
Oxford University Press
9780199783601
N/A
2006
EN
358 pages
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