Scientists
epub |eng | 2010-10-15 | Author:John W. Moffat

Invariably, at each Thursday seminar, Dirac would sit in the first row, a slim, nondescript figure in his tweed suit. Early on in the talk, he would look at the ...
( Category: Scientists June 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Lawrence Goldstone [Goldstone, Lawrence]

May ended as badly as it began for Wilbur and Orville. On the twenty-ninth of that month, Glenn Curtiss completed the first true cross-country flight in the United States and ...
( Category: Scientists June 6,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:E.T. Bell

There are one or two simple matters to be disposed of before we come to Lobatchewsky’s Copernican part in the extension of geometry. We have alluded to “equivalents” of the ...
( Category: Reference May 30,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-10-31 | Author:Steve Wozniak & Gina Smith [Wozniak, Steve & Smith, Gina]

What Was the ARPANET? Short for the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, and developed by the U.S. Department of Defense, the ARPANET was the first operational packet-switching network that could ...
( Category: Business May 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-05-01 | Author:Alan Grafen & Mark Ridley [Grafen, Alan & Ridley, Mark]

ANTIPHONAL VOICES Richard Dawkins and the problem of progress Michael Ruse Directionalist common sense surely wins on the very long time scale: once there was only blue-green slime and now ...
( Category: Scientists May 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-18 | Author:Jane Smiley [Smiley, Jane]

Although Atanasoff was invited to the February 1946 unveiling of ENIAC at the University of Pennsylvania, and attended, the demonstration of the machine did not clear up any mysteries for ...
( Category: Scientists May 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1999-08-31 | Author:A. Scott Berg [Berg, A. Scott]

“I feel sure in closing,” Reilly said, “even Colonel Lindbergh wouldn’t expect you and doesn’t expect you to do anything but your duty under the law and under the evidence.” ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-10-30 | Author:Fritjof Capra [Capra, Fritjof]

ARISTOTLE’S SYNTHESIS OF SCIENCE For science at the time of the Renaissance, the most important Greek philosopher was Aristotle. A student of Plato, Aristotle was by far the most brilliant ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers May 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-24 | Author:Shana Priwer

51 The perfect man One of the most famous drawings of all time is Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man of 1490 (see the cover of this book). In the original ...
( Category: Scientists May 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-22 | Author:Padgett, Jason & Seaberg, Maureen Ann [Padgett, Jason]

I tried to escape to these familiar visions when I was uncomfortable. Even if something was very beautiful, I found it could overwhelm me. This was never more clear than ...
( Category: Scientists May 8,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:Paul Allen

NOT EVERYONE SAW Microsoft in a bad light. I was dining alone one night at Il Mulino, the Italian place in New York’s West Village, when I noticed a middle-aged ...
( Category: Scientists May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-07-15 | Author:William Kamkwamba;Bryan Mealer

TWO WEEKS AFTER BURYING my dog, Cholera swept the district. The epidemic had started in November in the southern region near Mwanza. A farmer from that area traveled to a ...
( Category: Wind May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1956-01-01 | Author:Gerald Durrell

The phosphorescence was particularly good that night. By plunging your hand into the water and dragging it along you could draw a wide golden-green ribbon of cold fire across the ...
( Category: General May 6,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1971-01-01 | Author:Gerald Durrell

5. A Question of Degrees The family doctor shook his head more in sorrow than in anger. ‘Strain,’ he repeated. ‘Overwork and over-worry. What you need is three weeks in ...
( Category: Scientists May 6,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-09-04 | Author:Fleming, Charles [Fleming, Charles]

Rancho Linda School sat high in the foothills to the east of San Jose. It was surrounded by fruit orchards and framed by eucalyptus trees, and it overlooked the city ...
( Category: Neurosurgery April 19,2014 )