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Inventing Modern America: From the Microwave to the Mouse

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Inventing Modern America: From the Microwave to the Mouse

by David E Brown (Text by), James Burke (Introduction by), Lester C Thurow (Foreword by)

About this title: Profiles of the inventors of the computer mouse, the traffic light, colored cotton, and the assembly line, are among those included in this compendium of 20th-century American innovations. Through these colorful explanations the century takes shape.

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by Brown, David, Dr.

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Edition: Illustrated. Binding: Hardcover Publisher: MIT Press Date Published: 2001 ISBN-13: 9780262025089 ISBN: 0262025086

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Inventing Modern America: From the Microwave to the Mouse

by Brown, David E (Text by), and Burke, James (Introduction by), and Thurow, Lester C (Foreword by)

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Inventing Modern America: From the Microwave to the Mouse

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Inventing Modern America

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