Encyclopedia of 20th-century technology /

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Imprint:New York : Routledge, c2005.
Description:2 v. (xxxi, 933 p.) : ill. ; 29 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5541071
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Other authors / contributors:Hempstead, Colin.
Worthington, William E., 1948-
ISBN:1579583865 (set : alk. paper)
1579584632 (vol.1 : alk. paper)
1579584640 (vol.2 : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Selected Entries Include: Anaesthetics Angiography Artificial intelligence
  • Audio systems - personal stereo
  • Battleships and dreadnoughts
  • Bioengineering materials
  • Blood transfusion and products
  • Cancer Catamarans Composite materials
  • Computer-user interface
  • Concrete Control technology - computer aided
  • Dairying Dams Electroencephalogram
  • Fert ilisers
  • Food preservation, cooling and freezing
  • Gender and technology
  • Gene therapy 'Green' chemistry
  • Intensive care and life support
  • Internal combustion piston engine
  • Internet Isotopic analysis
  • Lasers Lighting techniques
  • Microwave ovens
  • Motorways Packet switching
  • Positron Emission Tomography
  • Radar - defensive systems, World War II Rail - high speed
  • Satellites - intelligence gathering
  • Space exploration - Moon, manned Space stations
  • Technology and law
  • Technology and leisure
  • Telecommunications Telephony
  • Television Ultrasound in medicine
  • Wright Flyers X-rays in diagnostic medicine