The Speed of Change: 19th Century America

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From buggies to aircraft flight, the technological advances of the 19th century boggle the mind and had profound cultural and industrial implications.Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Julia Keller joins Dean Lawrence R. Velvel to discuss the amazing technological progress the United States experienced at the turn of the last century, and her book, Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It, on this episode of Books of our Time.


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Science & Technology

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