Inventing modern : growing up with x-rays, skyscrapers, and tailfins / by John H. Lienhard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lienhard, John H., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lienhard, John H--Childhood and youth.

Technological innovations--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Technological innovations.

Technology--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Technology.

Science--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Science.

Material culture--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Material culture.

United States--Civilization--20th century.

United States.

Local Subjects:

Lienhard, John H--Childhood and youth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lienhard elucidates what ideas and developments explain the profound watershed transition, around 1900 or 1906, to the 'Modern' era, which persisted into the 1950s. He explores the cultural history of the first half of the 20th century, showing the impact of scientific developments on the culture at large.

Contents:

1846 : great-grandpa and manifest destiny

Short-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.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771396-3

1-280-53258-0

0-19-803636-1

1-4237-8427-8

OCLC:

476025533