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Big business United States History 19th century Capitalists and financiers United States History 19th century Cyclotrons Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.) History Industrialists United States History 19th century Lawrence, Ernest Orlando 1901-1958 Physicists United States Biography Railroads United States History 19th century United States Economic conditions 1865-1918 United States History 1865-1921Hiltzik, Michael A.
Summary: The definitive account of the epic construction of the Hoover Dam, one of the the twentieth century's most consequential public works.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2010
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Summary: "From Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between America's railroad titans"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 385.0973 HILHiltzik, Michael A
Summary: "The birth of Big Science can be traced to Berkeley, California, nearly nine decades ago, when a resourceful young scientist with a talent for physics and an even greater talent for promotion pondered his new invention and declared, 'I'm going to be famous!' Ernest Orlando Lawrence's cyclotron would revolutionize nuclear physics, but that was only the beginning of its impact. It would change...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015