TY - BOOK ID - 138645934 TI - Assembling the dinosaur : fossil hunters, tycoons, and the making of a spectacle PY - 2019 SN - 0674240340 0674240332 PB - Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Fossils KW - Dinosaurs in popular culture KW - Science museums KW - Collection and preservation KW - History. KW - Public relations KW - Carnegie, Andrew, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138645934 AB - Lukas Rieppel shows how dinosaurs gripped the popular imagination and became emblems of America's industrial power and economic prosperity during the Gilded Age. Spectacular fossils were displayed in museums financed by North America's wealthiest tycoons, to cement their reputation as both benefactors of science and fierce capitalists. ER -