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Engineering invention : Frank J. Sprague and the U.S. electrical industry, 1880-1900

Author: Frederick Dalzell
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, 2010.
Edition/Format:  Print book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The technological breakthroughs and entrepreneurial adventures of Frank J. Sprague during the transformative years of the early electrical industry.
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Genre/Form: Biographies
History
Biography
Named Person: Frank J Sprague; Frank J Sprague
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Frederick Dalzell
ISBN: 9780262042567 0262042568
OCLC Number: 528374463
Description: xii, 288 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Responsibility: Frederick Dalzell ; foreword by W. Bernard Carlson ; afterword by John Sprague.

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Readers interested in technological history, as well as those interested in the business of innovation, will find Dalzell's book a rich mine.-IEEE History Center Newsletter

 
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