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

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Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): David P. BillingtonIllustration(s): 57 b/w illus.Number of pages: 328Collection: Princeton Science ...

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