History of Technology
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-09-27 | Author:Stephen L. Sass [Sass, Stephen L.]

These ingredients are the basic components of gunpowder, which is a mixture of saltpeter (potassium nitrate), sulfur, and charcoal. Byzantium resisted the onslaughts first of Islam and then of the ...
( Category: History of Technology February 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-15 | Author:McNeill, William H. [McNeill, William H.]

Global Repercussions A striking discrepancy at once leaps to the eye when one turns attention from the European continent itself to the military experience of states and peoples in Africa ...
( Category: History of Technology February 26,2017 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | | Author:Gordon Corera

CHAPTER TWELVE BRITAIN AND THE CYBER SPIES There was ‘jubilation’ as the message winged its way from northern India to New York. It was short and simple: ‘Hello from Dharamsala’ ...
( Category: Hacking July 17,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Greg Jenner

WE ARE LIVING IN A MATERIAL WORLD In 1881, a man named Mohammed al-Rassul betrayed his two brothers. For the previous decade, the trio had been illegally flogging ancient Egyptian ...
( Category: History of Technology June 27,2016 )
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2007-08-14 | Author:Matthew Parker

allace would complain that the delays in sorting out the problems in accommodation were down to “supplies taking for ever to arrive” and the labor “immediately available and who could ...
( Category: Design & Construction February 3,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Walter Isaacson [Isaacson, Walter]

Alan Kay (1940– ) at Xerox PARC in 1974. Kay’s 1972 sketch for a Dynabook. Lee Felsenstein (1945– ). The first issue, October 1972. By keeping children (of all ages) ...
( Category: Hacking February 2,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-09-18 | Author:Tom Standage

crYPTOGRAPHY—tinkering with codes and ciphers—was a common hobby among Victorian gentlemen. Wheatstone and his friend Charles Bab-bage, who is best known for his failed attempts to build a mechanical computer, ...
( Category: History of Technology January 28,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2007-10-15 | Author:Parker, Matthew [Parker, Matthew]

allace would complain that the delays in sorting out the problems in accommodation were down to “supplies taking for ever to arrive” and the labor “immediately available and who could ...
( Category: Design & Construction January 6,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1987-01-15 | Author:David McCullough [McCullough, David]

But Alma Hall stood through the night, as did the Presbyterian Church and its parsonage, Dr. Lowman’s house, where a small crowd had gathered in the top floor, and the ...
( Category: Disaster Relief November 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Walter Isaacson [Isaacson, Walter]

Alan Kay (1940– ) at Xerox PARC in 1974. Kay’s 1972 sketch for a Dynabook. Lee Felsenstein (1945– ). The first issue, October 1972. By keeping children (of all ages) ...
( Category: Hacking October 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-04-20 | Author:Tristan Donovan [Donovan, Tristan]

Merchants of Doom: (left to right) John Carmack, Kevin Cloud, Adrian Carmack, John Romero, Tom Hall and Jay Wilbur. Courtesy of John Romero 20. The Ultimate Display In 1965 computer ...
( Category: History of Technology October 13,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:Walter Isaacson

THE COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS Among the tribes of the Bay Area in the years leading up to the birth of the personal computer was a cohort of community organizers and peace ...
( Category: Hacking October 9,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-30 | Author:Steven Johnson

Cholera victim It was the first mass chlorination of a city’s water supply in history. Once word got out, however, it initially seemed as though Leal was a madman or ...
( Category: History of Technology October 8,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:Walter Isaacson [Isaacson, Walter]

THE COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS Among the tribes of the Bay Area in the years leading up to the birth of the personal computer was a cohort of community organizers and peace ...
( Category: Hacking October 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-27 | Author:Malone, Michael S. [Malone, Michael S.]

CHAPTER 27 Beatification Intel entered the 1970s as a young start-up dedicated to taking leadership of the MOS memory business. Total annual revenues in 1970 were $4.2 million, losses were ...
( Category: Industrial Relations August 22,2014 )