Engineering
mobi, epub, pdf | | 2009-12-26 | Author:Tom Wolfe

Well, there were some big grins, all right, up in the high desert, at Edwards, among the brethren. Here were some men who had something to smile about. Now the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-08-26 | Author:Stephen Puleo

Meanwhile, the cause of the disaster continued to be a source of debate carried out in the press. State chemist Walter Wedger, and U.S. inspector of explosives Daniel T. O’Connell, ...
( Category: Health & Safety March 25,2014 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-02-02 | Author:Matthew Brzezinski

America had been bested on the international stage, and editors across the land now salivated at the prospect of finding someone to blame for the sluggishness and complacency of the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-06-23 | Author:Dan Parry

Chapter 10 PUSHED TO THE LIMIT The final say on whether Apollo 11 would launch on schedule was down to the crew as much as anyone, and determined to make ...
( Category: Engineering March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-15 | Author:Unger, David C. [Unger, David C.]

Reagan’s military buildup emphasized weapons that were designed to fight, deter, or impress a rival superpower. The Weinberger-Powell Doctrine reserved America’s own military forces for wars of national security necessity, ...
( Category: Engineering March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:John Lewis Gaddis

III. IT MIGHT become necessary, the Doolittle Report suggested, for the American people to “be made acquainted with, understand and support this fundamentally repugnant philosophy.”26 But no administration from Eisenhower’s ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-06-02 | Author:Timothy Egan

10. Blowup A WIND OUT OF the American West that tumbles in roller-coaster fashion is known as a Palouser, a Sahaptin Indian word that sounds poetic, named for the lilt ...
( Category: Fire Science March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-05-31 | Author:David McCullough

There are times when standing alone on this spot, one feels as completely isolated as if in a dungeon. Some three years ago I had an experience of this kind ...
( Category: Civil & Environmental March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Hampton Sides

Narbona’s sons believed the old man was already on the path. “You’ve gone away from us now,” they chanted. “You’ve gone away by yourself.” Having slaughtered the horses and left ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-15 | Author:Peter Nichols

Eleven The Ships and the Men William Fish Williams’s childhood homes, the ships Florida, Hibernia, and Monticello, were more alike than any three houses in a small suburban neighborhood. The ...
( Category: Engineering March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-05-26 | Author:Mark Essig

CHAPTER 15 The Unmasking of Harold Brown ON AUGUST 25, just a few weeks after the hearings ended, the New York Sun published stunning revelations regarding Edison's interest in the ...
( Category: Electricity March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-08-15 | Author:George C. Daughan

ON DECEMBER 30, 1813, His Majesty’s packet Bramble, under Lieutenant Pogson, arrived at Annapolis, Maryland, from Plymouth, England, with the momentous news: Napoleon had suffered a near fatal blow at ...
( Category: Maritime History & Piracy March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Alexis Madrigal

The solar transcendentalists drew from a wide range of sources for their philosophies. There were the deep American antitechnological roots of Thoreau and there were the popular philosophers of the ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Peter J. Westwick

Reengineering JPL • 233 Figure 15.1. The fi ve pillars of quality in Total Quality Management. Source: JPL 165, 2/18. tems engineering that had supported JPL for thirty years. Project ...
( Category: Propulsion Technology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Noam Chomsky

Turning Point? The Obama-Netanyahu-Abbas meetings in May 2009, followed by Obama’s speech in Cairo, have been widely interpreted as a turning point in U.S. Middle East policy, leading to consternation ...
( Category: Comparative Politics March 25,2014 )