History of Technology
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Herman Kahn [Kahn, Herman]

The next question asked in Table 52 is, Do we believe the answers? This question is, of course, highly relevant. Even conventional scientific and engineering analyses are much more uncertain ...
( Category: Military Technology March 23,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2020-03-17 | Author:Neal Bascomb

On July 25, almost half a million fans lined the Nürburgring for the German Grand Prix. Tens of thousands crammed the grandstands and the Karussell, the banked switchback turn halfway ...
( Category: History of Sports March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-15 | Author:Kevin Baker

Building Backward Steel-Frame Construction Chicago’s New York Life Building, the first true skyscraper, and today a four-star hotel. They began to rise out of the prairie by Lake Michigan: buildings ...
( Category: History of Technology March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-16 | Author:Robert C. Allen [Allen, Robert C.]

Inequality within the working class If we left the matter here, we would have a view of working class living standards that was neither optimistic nor pessimistic: In the first ...
( Category: Industrial Relations March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-08 | Author:Ian Mortimer [Mortimer, Ian]

Enlightenment liberalism Immanuel Kant described the Enlightenment as the ability to think for oneself, free from convention and dogma. Given such a broad definition, it is hardly surprising that it ...
( Category: History of Technology March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-07-15 | Author:Jim Rasenberger

Wilbur at Hunaudières, August 1908. “I thought it would be a good thing to do a little something.” By the end of the second week of August, Wilbur realized he ...
( Category: History of Technology March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-19 | Author:Shamir, Ronen; [Shamir, Ronen]

5 Assembling a Jewish Economy THE LETTER FROM THE JERUSALEM OFFICE to the London headquarters of the Zionist Executive was exceptionally angry. It concerned the position of the Jaffa Electric ...
( Category: History of Technology March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kenneth Sewell & Jerome Preisler

When she opened the door, Barbara instantly registered two things: the storm clouds had broken to reveal wide patches of blue, sunny sky, and the person standing in front of ...
( Category: History of Technology March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-16 | Author:Geoffrey Cain

mSpot co-founder Daren Tsui. After his software company was acquired by Samsung, he became vice president for content and services, running Samsung’s streaming music service, Milk Music. Tsui and Ho ...
( Category: Workplace Culture March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael G Johnson

Curley, the famous Crow scout who brought the news of Custer’s defeat to the US Army headquarters on the steamer Far West, thereafter becoming something of a celebrity. Here he ...
( Category: Native American Studies March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Weber, Jonathan M.;

Fig. 9. Monroe S. Leech, patent 6,620, “Mortuary Box.” The glass dome is listed as figure 1. Archivo General de la Nación, Grupo Documental-Patentes y Marcas, legajo 307, expediente 80, ...
( Category: Public Health March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-19 | Author:Baron de Jomini [Jomini, Baron de]

It should be observed that these different orders are not to be understood precisely as the geometrical figures indicate them. A general who would expect to arrange his line of ...
( Category: History & Theory March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-12-04 | Author:Hahn, Laura D.; Wolters, Angela S.; [Неизв.]

FIGURE 7.5 Cinda Heeren, 2016. Photo courtesy of Laura Hahn. Most recently, I happened to watch a TED talk from Ron Eglash in which he described the fractal or recursive ...
( Category: Women in History March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-13 | Author:Martin W. Sandler

Eager to launch the assault as quickly as possible, Palmer asked the secretary of labor, who in 1919 had much broader powers than he or she would have today, to ...
( Category: History March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-12 | Author:Darin Gibby

Chapter Eleven COLT TURNS TO THE COURTS After struggling for twenty years, Colt had—with the help of the Mexican War—turned himself into a millionaire almost overnight. But he was facing ...
( Category: History of Technology March 13,2020 )