Engineering & Transportation
epub |eng | 2011-03-28 | Author:White, Robin & Anderson, Ray C. [White, Robin]

10 | The Circle of Influence, or Love on the Factory Floor Visiting Interface and seeing the creativity applied to establish more sustainable practices made it undeniable that the rest ...
( Category: Processes & Infrastructure March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2006-03-25 | Author:Marc Levinson [Levinson Marc]

Chapter 10 Ports in a Storm The Coastwise Steamship Company had been created to serve the paper industry. Since the 1930s, its ships had picked up rolls of newsprint from ...
( Category: Industrial Design March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-12 | Author:Tyler Cowen [Cowen, Tyler]

The Machine’s Place Not many people, from their standpoint as observers or as consumers of culture, want man and machine to converge. It seems that even when the machines are ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Vaclav Smil [Smil, Vaclav]

Figure 19 James Watt’s steam engine (left) and detail of separate condenser (right) The typical power of Watt’s engines was about twenty-five horsepower (about 20 kW); the largest engines, built ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-06-02 | Author:Douglas Rushkoff [Rushkoff, Douglas]

The Real World Back in the 1960s, the psychologist Stanley Milgram was horrified and inspired by the trial of Adolf Eichmann, who engineered the transport of Jews to Nazi death ...
( Category: Workplace Culture March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3, pdf, mobi |eng | 2010-11-01 | Author:Tim Wu [Wu, Tim]

As Friendly, Smith, and the others championed cable, its true white knight lurked unsuspected in the Nixon White House in the person of Clay Whitehead. At the age of thirty-two, ...
( Category: Telecommunications & Sensors March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Tom Kelley

8 EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED History teaches that innovation does not come about by central planning. If it did, Silicon Valley would be nearer to Moscow than to San Francisco. Working ...
( Category: Company Profiles March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-12 | Author:Steven Levy [Levy, Steven]

PART FIVE OUTSIDE THE BOX The Google Phone Company and the Google TV Company 1 “They already hate us—what’s the downside?” You might say that the seeds of the Google ...
( Category: Company Profiles March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:Thomas Petzinger & Thomas Petzinger Jr. [Petzinger, Thomas & Petzinger, Thomas Jr.]

Frank Borman was beside himself with anguish and frustration. He had spent his adult life operating within a chain of command, much of it with himself at or near the ...
( Category: Aviation March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-07 | Author:Arthur Herman [Herman, Arthur]

Unlike Knudsen, Donald Nelson was no industrial production man. He was a chemical engineer, with a degree from the University of Missouri—a handy degree when later he had to look ...
( Category: Company Profiles March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Mark Pendergrast [Pendergrast, Mark]

THE ARAB BOYCOTT BLUES That same year, Paul Austin convinced Woodruff that things could go better for Coke behind the Iron Curtain as well as in the drive-ins and skating ...
( Category: Hospitality, Travel & Tourism March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Douglas Rushkoff [Rushkoff, Douglas]

Central Currency The economy in which we all participate is no more natural than the game scenarios John Nash set up to test the Rand Corporation’s secretaries. It is a ...
( Category: Workplace Culture March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-17 | Author:Paul Clemens [Clemens, Paul]

I’d told Matt the day before that I’d be in around 7:30 in the morning to see the crown of 16-1 come down. How long would it take? “If everything ...
( Category: Company Profiles March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1999-01-02 | Author:Eugene Cernan [Cernan, Eugene]

17 The Magnificent Beast DON RRICKLES, WHO MADE his living needling the high and mighty, did me no favor one evening during his freewheeling comedy act in Las Vegas. Alan ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2005-03-25 | Author:Andrew Smith

The museum district comes on like a pleasant afterthought to the city, manicured green and – with no reason for anyone to go there other than culture – quiet. It’s ...
( Category: Military March 26,2014 )