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"A rare insight into industrial planning on a huge scale...Excellent." -- The Economist Rescuing Prometheus is an eye-opening and marvelously informative look at some of the technological projects that helped shape the modern world. Thomas P. Hughes focuses on four postwar projects whose... read more
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First Sentence edit
MIT assumed this special responsibility wholeheartedly when it became the system builder for the SAGE Project (Semiautomatic Ground Environment), a computer-and radar-based air defense system created in the 1950s.
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- Thomas Parke Hughes (Author)
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- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Sociology › Culture
- Books › Science › History & Philosophy › History of Science
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