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Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-03-26 | Author:Ashlee Vance

9 LIFTOFF THE FALCON 9 HAS BECOME SPACEX’S WORKHORSE. The rocket looks—let’s face it—like a giant white phallus. It stands 224.4 feet tall, is 12 feet across, and weighs 1.1 ...
( Category: Patents & Inventions May 24,2015 )
City Life (9781476737348) by Rybczynski Witold
epub |eng | | Author:Rybczynski, Witold

* * * I. In his 1909 Plan of Chicago, which I will discuss later, Daniel Burnham never uses the term “City Beautiful”; nor did Werner Hegemann and Elbert Peets ...
( Category: Architecture May 11,2015 )
City Life by Rybczynski Witold
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Rybczynski, Witold [Rybczynski, Witold]

* * * I. In his 1909 Plan of Chicago, which I will discuss later, Daniel Burnham never uses the term “City Beautiful”; nor did Werner Hegemann and Elbert Peets ...
( Category: Architecture May 11,2015 )
The Nature of Technology by W. Brian Arthur
epub |eng | 2009-08-05 | Author:W. Brian Arthur

There is no such thing as “first” in any activity associated with human invention. If you add enough adjectives to a description you can always claim your own favorite. For ...
( Category: History April 1,2015 )
Rust: The Longest War by Jonathan Waldman
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-03-09 | Author:Jonathan Waldman [Waldman, Jonathan]

In the studio, Dunmire asked Burton to take two. “It popped or something,” he said. “Something went wrong. Could you do it again?” Burton, reading from page 3, said, “All ...
( Category: History March 23,2015 )
GPS Declassified by Richard D. Easton & Eric F. Frazier & Rick W. Sturdevant
epub |eng | 2013-03-21 | Author:Richard D. Easton & Eric F. Frazier & Rick W. Sturdevant

9 Where Are We? GPS and GNSS Today I once was lost but now am found. John Newton, “Amazing Grace ,” 1779 Like millions of motorists, thirty-two-year-old Jeramie Griffin, a ...
( Category: History March 22,2015 )
The Powerhouse: Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World by Steve LeVine
epub |eng | 2015-02-04 | Author:Steve LeVine [LeVine, Steve]

• • • If you asked the battery guys at what stage they understood that there was a problem with NMC 2.0, it prompted a nervous response. They would go ...
( Category: Oil & Energy March 22,2015 )
How to Fly a Horse by Kevin Ashton
mobi, epub |eng | 2015-01-20 | Author:Kevin Ashton

1 | WOODY In March 2002, Woody Allen did something he had never done. He flew from New York to Los Angeles, put on a bow tie, and attended the ...
( Category: History March 4,2015 )
Genghis 1: Birth of an Empire by Conn Iggulden
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2007-04-30 | Author:Conn Iggulden

Chapter 18 TEMUJIN WATCHED THE SUN pass overhead, its fire damped by heavy cloud, so that he was able to gaze on the orange disk with only a little discomfort. ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
Killer on the Road by Ginger Strand
epub |eng | 2012-01-28 | Author:Ginger Strand

Roger Reece Kibbe, the “I-5 Strangler”: a killer so bland even a mother who put her daughter into his car couldn’t remember any details about him to tell police. Courtesy ...
( Category: Highway & Traffic January 29,2015 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
Mind and Life: Discussions with the Dalai Lama on the Nature of Reality (Columbia Series in Science and Religion) by Luisi Pier Luigi
azw3 |eng | 2010-12-13 | Author:Luisi, Pier Luigi [Luisi, Pier Luigi]

Reflections As we started moving toward the exit at the end of the session, most of us were absorbed in thought. My own mind was still on Matthieu’s presentation about ...
( Category: History January 22,2015 )

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