History of Technology
epub |eng | 2001-06-01 | Author:David Mccullough [McCullough, David]

There are times when standing alone on this spot, one feels as completely isolated as if in a dungeon. Some three years ago I had an experience of this kind ...
( Category: State & Local May 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-08-15 | Author:Matthew Parker [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 May 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-10-30 | Author:Fritjof Capra [Capra, Fritjof]

ARISTOTLE’S SYNTHESIS OF SCIENCE For science at the time of the Renaissance, the most important Greek philosopher was Aristotle. A student of Plato, Aristotle was by far the most brilliant ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers May 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:David McCullough

* * * 1 Reportedly it was Senator Hanna who put Roosevelt on to Cromwell. “You want to be very careful, Theodore,” Hanna is supposed to have advised in fatherly ...
( Category: Aerospace May 19,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2000-01-02 | Author:Alan Deutschman

In 1993, when Next was finally revealed as a blatant failure, the news media that had adored Steve Jobs for so many years now turned on him with the resentment ...
( Category: Company Profiles May 10,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-12-03 | Author:Bill Adair [Adair, Bill]

Jim Hall, the NTSB’s new chairman, had just replaced the retiring Carl Vogt. A short man with sandy hair and a mild Tennessee drawl, Hall was a Vietnam veteran, a ...
( Category: Commercial Aviation March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 1989-05-31 | Author:Clausewitz, Carl von & Michael Eliot Howard & Peter Paret [Clausewitz, Carl von]

CHAPTER EIGHT Types of Resistance The essence of defense lies in parrying the attack. This in turn implies waiting, which for us is the main feature of defense and also ...
( Category: History of Technology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:David F. Noble

While Parsons was trying in vain to commercialize N/C, others were getting into the act. Directly or indirectly supported by the Air Force, Giddings and Lewis, together with General Electric, ...
( Category: Industrial Technology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:David Isby [Isby, David]

Land and Water Conflicts over land and water rights underlie a lot of Afghanistan’s internal strife, including those relating to corruption and even terrorism. Arable land and water are both ...
( Category: History of Technology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-14 | Author:Jack Hitt [Hitt, Jack]

VII. Marlboro Time Around midnight in San Francisco, Patterson and I are on the floor with our fortieth or fiftieth attempt at configuring the 2500-volt transformer so that we can ...
( Category: History of Technology March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2006-03-25 | Author:Marc Levinson [Levinson Marc]

Chapter 10 Ports in a Storm The Coastwise Steamship Company had been created to serve the paper industry. Since the 1930s, its ships had picked up rolls of newsprint from ...
( Category: Industrial Design March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Tom Kelley

8 EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED History teaches that innovation does not come about by central planning. If it did, Silicon Valley would be nearer to Moscow than to San Francisco. Working ...
( Category: Company Profiles March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-10-14 | Author:Stone, Brad [Stone, Brad]

In 2003, Jeff Bezos came up with yet another way to frame his concept of Amazon. This time, it was for a group of buyers who were leading the company’s ...
( Category: Business March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-04 | Author:Lapsley, Phil [Lapsley, Phil]

Fifteen PRANKS LIKE THE FLAP of a butterfly’s wings causing a hurricane half a world away, the ripples of unintended consequences from Ron Rosenbaum’s “Secrets of the Little Blue Box” ...
( Category: History of Technology March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Deborah Blum

Dry newspapers found Norris less persuasive. Alcohol killed thousands of people long before Prohibition was enacted, they pointed out. “Must Uncle Sam guarantee safety first for souses?” asked Nebraska’s Omaha ...
( Category: Pathology March 25,2014 )