Scientists
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-07 | Author:Edward Dolnick [Dolnick, Edward]

Spectators out for a day’s entertainment might attend a puppet show or a hanging or, perhaps, a bear-baiting. Dogs attacked a chained bear, who flailed at his attackers. Bull-baiting was ...
( Category: Scientists October 1,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1994-01-01 | Author:Dava Sobel [Sobel, Dava]

10. The Diamond Time keeper The cabinet is formed of gold And pearl and crystal shining bright, And within it opens into a world And a little lovely moony night. ...
( Category: Patents & Inventions October 1,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2000-06-01 | Author:Tracy Kidder [Kidder, Tracy]

THE WONDERFUL MICROMACHINES To almost everything they touched, the Microteam attached their prefix. The office that four of them shared, sitting virtually knee to knee, had a sign on the ...
( Category: History of Technology October 1,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-15 | Author:Joshua Davis [Davis, Joshua]

10. FOR MONTHS GEORGE LOVELL HAD BEEN HEARING complaints about the crazy white man who lived by the river in the northern jungle. As CEO of the Ministry of National ...
( Category: Scientists September 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Edward Dolnick

Spectators out for a day’s entertainment might attend a puppet show or a hanging or, perhaps, a bear-baiting. Dogs attacked a chained bear, who flailed at his attackers. Bull-baiting was ...
( Category: Scientists September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lynn Sherr

7 * * * EXPLOSIONS SPRING/SUMMER 1985–SUMMER 1986 Tam, Atlanta, 1985. Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life and a secret life. —Gabriel García Márquez TAM “I ...
( Category: Women September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Stone, A. Douglas

FIGURE 20.1. Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr in discussion, circa 1925–30. Photograph by Paul Ehren fest, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. So this was the revolutionary step that Einstein, ...
( Category: Quantum Theory September 16,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Seth Shulman

For the AEA, the path to a working airplane has been remarkably swift, with surprisingly few missteps. By December 1907, the group completed its first glider, the Cygnet, based on ...
( Category: History September 10,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-25 | Author:Freeman J. Dyson [Dyson, Freeman J.]

Descartes said: I showed what the laws of nature were, and without basing my arguments on any principle other than the infinite perfections of God I tried to demonstrate all ...
( Category: Scientists September 3,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Kai Bird

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT “He Couldn’t Understand Why He Did It” He told me that his nerve just gave way at that moment. . . . He has this tendency when things ...
( Category: United States September 1,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-01 | Author:Maples, William R. [Maples, William R.]

11 Death in 10,000 Fragments You will say that reality does not have the slightest obligation to be interesting. I reply that even if reality can escape the necessity of ...
( Category: Pathology August 20,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2014-07-08 | Author:Jay Barbree

With the moon closer to them than Earth, the astronauts had a crater-potted lunar surface staring them in the face. (NASA) It was a splendid, epochal moment sixty-nine hours and ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight July 31,2014 )
epub |deu | 2007-09-14 | Author:The Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla [Tesla, The Lost Journals of Nikola]

The Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla Tesla's concept of a electrogravitic aircraft originally conceived in 1919. "I am now planning aerial machines devoid of sustaining planes, ailerons, propellers and other ...
( Category: Scientists July 10,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Tuckey, Harriet [Tuckey, Harriet]

So please send me assurance (a) that you will see that my position and work for the expedition are properly recognised, and (b) that I am referred to not as ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing July 9,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-21 | Author:Lawrence M. Krauss [Krauss, Lawrence M.]

CHAPTER 12 Rearranging the Universe Resistance is futile. —The Borg, to Captain Picard, in Star Trek: The Next Generation Feynman had explained how the transition that led to superfluid helium ...
( Category: Quantum Theory June 23,2014 )