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epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Smil, Vaclav

Figure 5.11 The massive fiber-and-resin blades of three large turbofan engines. General Electric’s GE90-115B; facing page: Rolls-Royce’s Trent 1000 and Pratt & Whitney’s GP7000. Photographs available at the Web sites ...
( Category: Patents & Inventions March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-20 | Author:Peter H. Diamandis & Steven Kotler [Diamandis, Peter H. & Kotler, Steven]

The Wrath of Khan In 2006 Salman Khan was a successful hedge fund analyst living in Boston, with younger cousins living in New Orleans whom he’d agreed to help in ...
( Category: Research March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-07 | Author:Bee Wilson [Wilson, Bee]

My mortar and pestle comes from Thailand and is fashioned from craggy black granite. I like it far better than those restrained white-china mortars, whose rough insides set my teeth ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-01 | Author:Reist Hathorn, Tessa, Duell, Ryan, Hathorn, Tobias & Tobias Hathorn & Tessa Reist Hathorn [Reist Hathorn, Tessa, Duell, Ryan, Hathorn, Tobias & Hathorn, Tobias & Hathorn, Tessa Reist]

You’re going to modify the east and west faces, moving each face 40′-0″ (12 m) closer to the center. Hover your mouse near the edge of the face of the ...
( Category: Architecture March 26,2014 )
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 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:James Mahaffey

134 The USS S-48, built in 1921, was possibly the only submarine to find peril in a heavy snowstorm. She was returning home to Portsmouth, Connecticut, on the night of ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-19 | Author:Gillian Cookson

seven hundredweight strain sufficed to keep the rate of the cable near enough to that of the ship, but as the water deepened the proportionate speed of the cable advanced, ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-01-28 | Author:Eric Taub

Hint: Think of YouTube as Your College’s Library Stacks As a student, I loved to wander down my university library’s stacks, picking up a volume here or there, allowing my ...
( Category: Electronics March 25,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-08-19 | Author:Jonathan Sterne

Although I will argue that the logic of “original” and “copy” does not adequately describe the process of sound reproduction, one cannot deny that questions of the relation between originals ...
( Category: Electronics March 24,2014 )