{"title":"David P. Billington","description":"\u003cp\u003eDAVID P. BILLINGTON was the Gordon Y. S. Wu Professor of Engineering Emeritus at Princeton University, where he taught for 50 years. He was the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Tower and the Bridge\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRobert Maillart’s Bridges: The Art of Engineering\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBillington received the 1979 Dexter Prize for the outstanding book on the history of technology and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1986. He joined Princeton’s civil engineering faculty in 1960, following a Fulbright scholarship to study civil engineering in Belgium after graduating from Princeton in 1950.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid P. Billington died in Los Angeles, California.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid P. Billington’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrowse more: \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/books-new-releases\"\u003eNew Releases\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/award-winning-books\"\u003eAward-Winning Books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-innovators-trade","title":"The Innovators, Trade: The Engineering Pioneers Who Transformed America","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eEnter the workshops of America's early engineering geniuses and discover how they came up with their ideas and applied them to the marketplace. David Billington, acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eThe Tower and the Bridge\u003c\/em\u003e, reveals the strokes of brilliance behind such landmark developments as the steamboat, electric power, and the rise of the iron and steel industry. He explains each major innovation through the story of the remarkable new engineering formulas that made it possible, showing that one key to engineering progress is the discovery of fundamental relationships in the physical world. He also explores the political and social conditions that allowed these brilliant individuals to implement their ideas, and the sweeping changes that followed in their wake.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eWho were the innovators? Some are legendary: Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat; Samuel Morse, inventor of the telegraph; and Thomas Edison, inventor of the incandescent lightbulb. Others are not as well known, however, and readers will be introduced to many whose contributions, if not their names, have stood the test of time: people like J. Edgar Thompson, who built the Pennsylvania Railroad; and Thomas Telford, who revolutionized largescale bridge building and design.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eWe earn a commission for purchases made through the following links.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0471140260\/ref=nosim?tag=tpcecomm-20\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Amazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003c!-- bookshop-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/book\/9780471140269\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Bookshop.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/bookshop-buylink --\u003e","brand":"David P. Billington","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43185560879320,"sku":"9780471140269","price":30.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/7786\/8475\/files\/9780470303214_FC_mockup_v2_1740153316_32fe7f48-83a2-4984-87b6-157cab59e77b.jpg?v=1792010201"}],"url":"https:\/\/turnerpublishing.com\/collections\/author-david-p-billington.oembed","provider":"Turner Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}