The Innovators, Trade: The Engineering Pioneers Who Transformed America, Hardcover/David P. Billington

In this age of microchips and deep space probes, it's hard to imagine life before electricity or passenger trains. A series of engineering innovations paved the way to the twentieth century, and transformed America into the world's greatest industrial power. About the Author: DAVID P. BILLINGTON, Professor of Civil Engineering at Princeton University, is the author of The Tower and the Bridge and Robert Maillart's Bridges: The Art of Engineering, winner of the 1979 Dexter Prize as the outstanding book on the history of technology.