Inventing modern America : from the microwave to the mouse / text by David E. Brown ; foreword by Le...
Inventing modern America : from the microwave to the mouse / text by David E. Brown ; foreword by Le...
Inventing modern America : from the microwave to the mouse / text by David E. Brown ; foreword by Lester C. Thurow ; introductions by James Burke.
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2002.
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NQ609.7309/1
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English
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xi, 209 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
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Machine generated contents note: Foreword: Lester C. Thurow viii -- Introduction: James Burke 2 -- MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE -- Introduction 4 -- Raymond Damadian: MRI scanner, magnetic resonance imaging (1977) 6 -- Thomas Fogarty: balloon embolectomy catheter (1961) 12 -- Wilson Creatbatch: implantab...
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2002.
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Massachusetts
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c2002.
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Inventing modern America : from the microwave to the mouse / text by David E. Brown ; foreword by Lester C. Thurow ; introductions by James Burke.
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"A publication of the Lemelson-MIT program for invention and innovation."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-200) and index.
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NQ609.7309/1
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0262025086 (hbk.)
9780262025089 (hc. : alk. paper)
0262025086 (hc. : alk. paper)
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0262025086 :
9780262025089 (hbk.)
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609.730904
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