History of Technology
epub |eng | 2016-12-20 | Author:Gregg Mitman & Kelley Wilder [Mitman, Gregg & Wilder, Kelley]

Epilogue What are the consequences of reanimating the life of the Harvard expedition footage, which had long been dead and forgotten? In 2012, I traveled to Liberia with the expedition ...
( Category: History of Technology March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-04 | Author:Marvin, Carolyn;

Special Powers of the Body and the Body Inscribed Just as the power of witchcraft was imputed to exceptional or marginal individuals in other cultures, in popular electrical culture superstitious ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2005-03-11 | Author:Peter L. Bernstein

Thus, in a dramatic example of the law of unintended consequences, a robust American business boom emerged from the ashes of Washington, D.C., and the panic created by the fearsome ...
( Category: History of Technology March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-11 | Author:Mike Cosden

After reaching their camping site, Henry Ford and Charles Edison found an abandoned boat and paddled into a nearby lake. As they rowed, they noticed several snakes. Ford pulled out ...
( Category: History of Technology March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-19 | Author:Phelps, Stephen [Phelps, Stephen]

TWELVE The Duchess of Richmond A S SIR HENRY TIZARD SAT DOWN TO DINNER with Vannevar Bush on the evening of August 28 in the civilized surroundings of the Cosmos ...
( Category: History of Technology March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-14 | Author:Herbert N. Casson

CHAPTER V. THE EXPANSION OF THE BUSINESS The telephone business did not really begin to grow big and overspread the earth until 1896, but the keynote of expansion was first ...
( Category: History of Technology March 9,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-08 | Author:Cecelia Tichi

CODA: HERBERT HOOVER Henry Adams’s new American was waiting in the wings, even if history has not been kind to him. The name Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) may call to mind ...
( Category: United States March 9,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-26 | Author:William McElwee

The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 1881–1918 The Cardwell reforms, intelligently conceived though they were, inevitably imposed some friction and hardships, and demanded immense patience and tolerance from the more junior ...
( Category: History of Technology March 8,2020 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-07-21 | Author:Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney

He heard in the news of Victor Emmanuel III's dismissal of Mussolini in July 1943. After hearing of the use of a treacherous tactic by the Germans against the British ...
( Category: History of Technology March 6,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mike Wilson [Wilson, Mike]

( Category: Business March 3,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-12-10 | Author:David Zimmerman [Zimmerman, David]

By the late summer of 1936 Bowen had built a transmitter which could transmit pulses at 6.7 metre wavelength. At first it was not possible to miniaturize the transmitter sufficiently ...
( Category: Radar March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-13 | Author:David E. Johnson [Johnson, David E.]

( Category: Canadian March 2,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-04 | Author:Humphrey Jennings [Jennings, Humphrey]

174 OPENING OF THE RAILWAY September 15, 1830 The Northumbrian was appointed to take the lead of the procession, drawing a splendid carriage, appropriated to the reception of the Duke ...
( Category: European March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 1985-12-31 | Author:A J Smithers [Smithers, A J]

CHAPTER 11 * * * ‘Did we really send men to fight in that?’ SIX VALUABLE WEEKS PASSED between the end of the Messines battles and the opening of the ...
( Category: Military Technology March 1,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-09-26 | Author:Carroll V. Glines [Glines, Carroll V.]

Ogden’s risky adventure was still not over. They reached a lagoon when they entered the next valley and had to be transported across it on a barge poled by fishermen. ...
( Category: Aerospace February 28,2020 )