mobi |eng | 2012-01-31 | Author:Kathleen Krull

CHAPTER EIGHT The Fabulous Notebooks AT THE TIME Leonardo’s mules were schlepping the notebooks around Italy, the pages were valuable only to their author. Today they are among the most ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-11-14 | Author:Kahney, Leander [Kahney, Leander]

Power Mac Cube In 2000, having filled all four of the 2×2 quadrants, Jony and the design group attempted their most ambitious product to date: the Power Mac Cube. The ...

epub |eng | | Author:Simon Head [Head, Simon]

7 THE MILITARY HALF COMPUTER BUSINESS SYSTEMS HAVE A HISTORY GOING BACK AT least seventy years to the Second World War, and the length and depth of this history have ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-18 | Author:Brockman, John

IS THE NEW PUBLIC SPHERE . . . PUBLIC? ANDREW LIH Associate professor, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, University of Southern California; author, The Wikipedia Revolution The advent of ...

epub |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:James Mahaffey

134 The USS S-48, built in 1921, was possibly the only submarine to find peril in a heavy snowstorm. She was returning home to Portsmouth, Connecticut, on the night of ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2007-08-15 | Author:Matthew Parker [Parker, Matthew]

ever-thickening blizzard of paper, orders became duplicated or lost. Alternatively they were pared down or simply filed away. When Walker left his job the following year, over 160 requisitions were ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Popular Mechanics Co.

The inside of the reflector should be polished with emery cloth, and if the surface is rough, it may be painted with white enamel. The outer surfaces of the metal ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:Ray Kurzweil [Kurzweil, Ray]

A Strategy for Creating a Mind There are billions of neurons in our brains, but what are neurons? Just cells. The brain has no knowledge until connections are made between ...

epub |eng | 2014-01-20 | Author:Brynjolfsson, Erik & McAfee, Andrew [Brynjolfsson, Erik]

FIGURE 11.1 Labor Productivity and Private Employment In this chapter, we’ll address three important questions about the future of the bounty and the spread. First, will the bounty overwhelm the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-29 | Author:Paul Kennedy [Kennedy, Paul]

a The term blitzkrieg gets used, often sloppily, to cover different though related things. Literally, it translates as “lightning war.” As such, it could be applied to many campaigns (that ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2009-05-12 | Author:Bridgewater, Alan & Bridgewater, Gill [Bridgewater, Gill]

FOOD-PRODUCTION WASTE Used vegetable oil can be filtered, chemically treated, and turned into biodiesel relatively easily. BIODIESEL Biodiesel will work in just about any conventional diesel engine. At a relatively ...

epub |eng | | Author:Downie, Neil A.

How It Works: The Science and the Math behind Micropendulums The periodicity of a pendulum is 2 π (L/g), where the length of the pendulum is L, and g is ...

mobi |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Kaku, Michio [Kaku, Michio]

ATOMIC TRANSISTORS One possible replacement for silicon chips is transistors made of individual atoms. If silicon transistors fail because wires and layers in a chip are going down in size ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Jeff Siegel

Energy Intelligence According to the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, electricity demand is projected to grow 19 percent nationwide over the next decade, but transmission capacity is expected to grow ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2007-09-06 | Author:Shannon Greenland

That evening, Wirenut and I knelt behind a gravestone, scoping out the back side of the Museum of History. Three entrance possibilities: front door, side window, rear door. No other ...