# From Insight to Innovation

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- Book: [From Insight to Innovation](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-p-billington-jr/from-insight-to-innovation) ([From Insight to Innovation.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-p-billington-jr/from-insight-to-innovation.md))
- Authors: [David P. Billington, Jr.](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-p-billington-jr), [Michael L. Littman](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-l-littman)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6204-430-1
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2020-11-17
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

The engineering ideas behind key twentieth-century technical innovations, from great dams and highways to the jet engine, the transistor, the microchip, and the computer. Technology is essential to modern...