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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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:Bruce Sterling & Richard Kadrey & Tom Jennings & Tom Whitwell [Sterling, Bruce]

From Stefan Jones Spotted this in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in the wonderful “Glories of Byzantium” exhibit. The brief description on the label seemed to indicate that these were ...
( Category: Patents & Inventions January 13,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1977-01-01 | Author:Thomas Commerford Martin

F IG. 153. F IG. 154. In another experiment, when phosphorescence was excited, a similar bulb was used. Here again, originally, the potential was not sufficient to excite phosphorescence until ...
( Category: Patents & Inventions December 19,2014 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-30 | Author:John Hershey

Part II Seeking a Eureka! Moment Chapter 6 Law, Regulation, and Standards The people must and will be served. —William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude Laws, regulations, and standards are ...
( Category: Digital Design November 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2003-08-18 | Author:Jill Jonnes

Having emerged from the shadows, Thomas Edison did not retreat again. He now proceeded to use the full force of his monumental fame and prestige to persuade the public and ...
( Category: Electricity November 18,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Nowak [Peter Nowak]

7 THE INTERNET: MILITARY MADE, PORN PERFECTED The way you know if your technology is good and solid is if it’s doing well in the orn world.1 —SUN MICROSYSTEMS SPOKESPERSON ...
( Category: History November 18,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-14 | 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 November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1999-11-02 | Author:Rachel P. Maines

FIG. 12. British male reaction to the ascending douche, from Joseph Buckley, Recollections of the Late John Smedley and the Water Cure (1888; Matlock, England: Arkwright Society, 1973). ELECTROTHERAPEUTICS Electrotherapeutic ...
( Category: Electronics November 3,2014 )