Scientists
epub |eng | 2014-10-13 | Author:James Essinger [Essinger, James]
By the end of 1834, the Analytical Engine was not the only thing on Ada’s mind. She had turned nineteen on December 10. Lady Byron was determined that the time ...
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Scientists
October 27,2014 )
Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that changed Everything by Steven Levy
mobi |eng | 1994-01-02 | Author:Steven Levy [Levy, Steven]
Steve Jobs was convinced that Macintosh was the final showdown at the Computer Corral. It was Apple versus IBM, to the death. He was annoyed at having to defend Macintosh ...
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Scientists
October 13,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-08-04 | Author:Jeff Ryan [Ryan, Jeff]
THE U.S. SHORES ENDED UP BEING A TENSE PLACE TO BE IN 1993. Yamauchi was tired of seeing declining profits from the American division, which had let Sega build up ...
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Game Programming
October 13,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:Walter Isaacson [Isaacson, Walter]
THE COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS Among the tribes of the Bay Area in the years leading up to the birth of the personal computer was a cohort of community organizers and peace ...
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Hacking
October 8,2014 )
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 ...
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History of Technology
October 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 ...
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Pathology
August 20,2014 )
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 ...
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Scientists
July 10,2014 )
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 )
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 ...
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Scientists
June 6,2014 )
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 ...
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Scientists
May 26,2014 )
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 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Simon Winchester
The main outcrop of the Jurassic rocks in England. The Jurassic rocks here had been given names that were almost as sonorous as the villages on which they lay. The ...
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Scientists
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-04-11 | Author:Gene Kranz [Kranz, Gene]
I recognized a few of the Thompson committee members. Frank Borman, the Gemini astronaut, and Max Faget, the director of engineering, were from MSC, and John Williams was from the ...
( Category:
Aeronautics & Astronautics
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Buzz Aldrin [Aldrin, Buzz]
ON MAY 8, 1976, I attended the “Operation Understanding” banquet at the Shoreham Americana Hotel in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the National Council on Alcoholism (NCA). I had achieved less ...
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Scientists
March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Carlson, W. Bernard
FIGURE 13.3. Interior of the experimental station showing the components that provided power to the primary coil of the magnifying transmitter. In the front are the capacitors and behind them ...
( Category:
Electricity
March 26,2014 )
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