Making Jet Engines in World War II

Making Jet Engines in World War II
Author: Hermione Giffard
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2016-10-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 022638859X

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Our stories of industrial innovation tend to focus on individual initiative and breakthroughs. Hermione Giffard uses the case of the development of jet engines to offer a different way of understanding technological innovation, revealing the complicated mix of factors that go into any decision to pursue an innovative, and therefore risky technology.