mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Gertner, Jon [Gertner, Jon]

BY 1964, there were about 75 million telephones in the United States, meaning that Bell Labs had now created the means for about 2,500,000,000,000,000 possible interconnections between subscribers.5 In light ...

epub |eng | | Author:S. Jerrold Kaplan

By late October, a rumor was circulating in the company kitchen that our engineering schedules were going to be delayed again, possibly into 1991. This had become the midlevel technical ...

epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Albert Jack

SUPERSTARS WHO WERE TOLD NOT TO GIVE UP THEIR DAY JOBS The Grand Ole Opry is a country music stage concert founded in 1925 in Nashville, Tennessee. The Opry, which ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2015-07-20 | Author:Anastacia Marx de Salcedo

KNOWING WHAT THEY—and what all chemists—knew about plastics, it appears folly that, in the early 1950s, army packaging experts proposed to find a way to heat-sterilize food and then store ...

epub |eng | | Author:Giles Slade

Response to the book from the business community was immediate and hostile—a fact that delighted both Packard and his publisher. Because a short period of seventeen months separated the release ...

mobi |eng | 2010-08-17 | Author:Elizabeth Wilson

4 / WAlTer PITTS And The InhIBITIon of AffeCT Pitts was married to abstract thought. . . . We never knew anything about his family or his feelings about us. ...

epub | | 2015-06-13 | Author:Elizabeth A. Wilson

4 / WAlTer PITTS And The InhIBITIon of AffeCT Pitts was married to abstract thought. . . . We never knew anything about his family or his feelings about us. ...

mobi |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Freinkel, Susan [Freinkel, Susan]

Roger Bernstein of the American Chemistry Council has understood that all along. He recognizes that the plastic-versus-paper fights are sideshows; the real threat to the industry is the battle against ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-05 | Author:Dan Parry [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 ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-21 | Author:Craig Nelson [Nelson, Craig]

Bill Anders remembered that riding on Apollo 8 “was like being on the inside of a submarine.” Jim Lovell said of being one of the first three humans to see ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...