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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-06-01 | Author:David Hitt & Heather R. Smith

21. Challenger in orbit on STS-7 with the remote manipulator system arm in the shape of the number 7. Courtesy NASA. Unbeknownst to the astronauts, flipping the switches in the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-04 | Author:Jay Barbree & Jay Barbree & Deke Slayton [Shepard, Alan]

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Apollo 8: First Around the Moon APOLLO 8 COMMANDER FRANK BORMAN was emerging from a deep sleep, and he resisted the wakefulness that tugged at him. Where am ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-01 | Author:William Rosen [Rosen, William]

IT IS NO ACCIDENT that “wheels of industry” is such a cliché description of a manufacturing economy, since the application of force in the form of rotational motion is by ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Chris Gainor [Gainor, Chris]

Breaking the Sound Barrier Humans, not just animals, were also being subjected to new speeds and acceleration forces in the first decade after the war, sometimes with similarly fatal results. ...