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Engineering the Everyday and the Extraordinary: Milestones in Innovation
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ISBN:
9780791860489
No. of Pages:
192
Publisher:
ASME Press
Publication date:
2015
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1. Communication
Page Count:
20
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Published:2015
“Keep in touch” is a phrase that dates back to when communicating across a distance required effort and time. People wrote letters by hand and mailed them, and then days, weeks, or even months went by before receiving a reply. Today, cell phones, computers, and the Internet have made communication practically instantaneous. We keep in touch with each other, keep track of our schedules, our business inventories — even our pets. It took a steady flow of engineering innovation to get from that old handwritten correspondence to today's lightning-fast forms of communication.
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