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Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity by Edward Tenner
epub |eng | 2009-08-25 | Author:Edward Tenner [Tenner, Edward]

THE RISE OF AN INDUSTRY, THE FALL OF AN IDEAL Recliners still faced challenges. Like the original La-Z-Boy the Barcalounger was expensive, even covered in Naugahyde. A skilled workforce assembled ...
( Category: Patents & Inventions January 29,2015 )
Reach for the Skies by Richard Branson
epub |eng | 2011-05-30 | Author:Richard Branson

Freddie went into the scrap business full-time, turning old warplanes into aluminum ingots. He claimed he was more than happy servicing and recycling planes, and that his flying days were ...
( Category: History January 29,2015 )
Highways Into Space: A first-hand account of the beginnings of the human space program by Glynn S. Lunney
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-10-21 | Author:Glynn S. Lunney [Lunney, Glynn S.]

Surveyor with LM in Background In reaction to the lightning strike after the mission, the mission rules for the launch director decision at the launch site were significantly strengthened. Don ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight January 29,2015 )
Audacity by Melanie Crowder
epub |eng | 2014-12-03 | Author:Melanie Crowder

Rosh Hashanah The high holy day begins at sundown. I do not know why the cutters and pressers [the men] are allowed to leave early so they can be home ...
( Category: Stories In Verse January 29,2015 )
Moon Lander: How We Developed the Apollo Lunar Module (Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight) by Kelly Thomas J
epub |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Kelly, Thomas J. [Kelly, Thomas J.]

Stress Corrosion The Super Weight Improvement Program resulted in the widespread use of chemical milling for structural parts on LM that rendered aluminum alloy parts more susceptible to stress corrosion, ...
( Category: History January 29,2015 )
Ten North Frederick by John O’Hara
epub |eng | 2014-05-14 | Author:John O’Hara

PART TWO The biographer has certain rights and duties and among them is the right, which is also a duty, to say that at such-and-such a point the biographee’s life ...
( Category: Arts & Photography January 29,2015 )
The Tyranny of E-mail by John Freeman
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-28 | Author:John Freeman

Don’t Talk to a Stranger on the Internet Spam is such a universal problem today that its dimensions are hard to properly comprehend. By some estimates, 85 to 95 percent ...
( Category: Engineering January 29,2015 )
Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human by Garreau Joel
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-05-16 | Author:Garreau, Joel [Garreau, Joel]

* * * The Hell Scenario Bill Joy and other advocates of The Hell Scenario see a future in which the advance of The Curve is unstoppable, and unspeakable evil ...
( Category: Social Aspects January 29,2015 )
Connections by James Burke
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-07-02 | Author:James Burke [Burke, James]

A painting (1438) of St. Barbara, incorporating the latest luxuries afforded by the presence of the chimney. Wooden furniture keeps her feet off the tiled floor, glass windows are backed ...
( Category: History January 29,2015 )
Mars 1 - Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
mobi |eng | 2010-10-23 | Author:Kim Stanley Robinson

When you expect to live another two hundred years, you behave differently from when you expect to live only twenty. This they proved almost immediately. John spent the winter there ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction January 28,2015 )
Sprawl 3 - Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
mobi |eng | 2011-05-04 | Author:William Gibson

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( Category: Arts & Photography January 28,2015 )
Robot 1 - I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
mobi |eng | 2004-03-16 | Author:Isaac Asimov

Measures on Hyper Base had been taken in a sort of rattling fury—the muscular equivalent of an hysterical shriek. To itemize them in order of both chronology and desperation, they ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction January 28,2015 )
Robot 3 - The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov
mobi |eng | 2011-04-12 | Author:Isaac Asimov

10 A CULTURE IS TRACED Baley could not prevent himself from crying out, “What!” Quemot looked over his shoulder as the moments of silence passed and said finally, “Not Earth’s ...
( Category: Intelligence & Semantics January 28,2015 )
Night's Dawn 2 - The Neutronium Alchemist by Peter F. Hamilton
mobi |eng | 2010-03-21 | Author:Peter F. Hamilton

CHAPTER 16 The Bar KF-T wasn’t up to much, but after a fifty-hour trip squashed into the two-deck life support capsule of an inter-orbit cargo tug with just the captain’s ...
( Category: Adventure January 28,2015 )
The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-09-18 | Author:Tom Standage

crYPTOGRAPHY—tinkering with codes and ciphers—was a common hobby among Victorian gentlemen. Wheatstone and his friend Charles Bab-bage, who is best known for his failed attempts to build a mechanical computer, ...
( Category: History of Technology January 28,2015 )

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