Creating the Twentieth Century pdf

瓦茨拉夫微笑 目前是加拿大温尼伯曼尼托巴大学环境学院的特聘教授。他在布拉格卡罗林大学自然科学学院和宾夕法尼亚州立大学地球与矿物科学学院完成了研究生学习。他的跨学科研究兴趣涵盖能源、环境、食品、人口、经济、历史和公共政策研究等广泛领域，他还将这些方法应用于中国的能源、食品和环境事务。

他是加拿大皇家学会（科学院）的会员，也是第一位获得美国科学促进会公众对科学技术理解奖的非美国人。他在美国、加拿大、欧洲、亚洲和非洲的 250 多个会议和研讨会上受邀演讲，在北美、欧洲和东亚的多所大学讲学，并在美国、欧盟和许多国家担任顾问。国际机构。他的妻子伊娃是一名医生，他的儿子大卫是一名有机合成化学家。

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Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867-1914 and Their Lasting Impact

The period between 1867 and 1914 remains the greatest watershed in human history since the emergence of settled agricultural societies: the time when an expansive civilization based on synergy of fuels, science, and technical innovation was born. At its beginnings in the 1870s were dynamite, the telephone, photographic film, and the first light bulbs. Its peak decade - the astonishing 1880s - brought electricity - generating plants, electric motors, steam turbines, the gramophone, cars, aluminum production, air-filled rubber tires, and prestressed concrete. And its post-1900 period saw the first airplanes, tractors, radio signals and plastics, neon lights and assembly line production. This book is a systematic interdisciplinary account of the history of this outpouring of European and American intellect and of its truly epochal consequences. It takes a close look at four fundamental classes of these epoch-making innovations: formation, diffusion, and standardization of electric systems; invention and rapid adoption of internal combustion engines; the unprecedented pace of new chemical syntheses and material substitutions; and the birth of a new information age. These chapters are followed by an evaluation of the lasting impact these advances had on the 20th century, that is, the creation of high-energy societies engaged in mass production aimed at improving standards of living.