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American Lucifers by Zallen Jeremy;
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Zallen, Jeremy;

Filling and dipping a frame. Children filled these frames layer by layer at incredible speeds, slotting splint after splint into grooves cut in the wooden strips strung and stacked across ...
( Category: History of Technology January 19,2020 )
Innovation by Mark Dodgson & David Gann
epub |eng | 2018-06-15 | Author:Mark Dodgson & David Gann

Government The debate about the role of the government in supporting innovation commonly reflects political ideology. State intervention in innovation is considered essential in many nations, including most Asian countries ...
( Category: Systems & Planning January 19,2020 )
Power Button by Rachel Plotnick
epub |eng | 2018-09-21 | Author:Rachel Plotnick

This suggestion well preceded a formal human factors movement, but it recommended practices common to that field by suggesting that homeowners could simulate the push-button gesture repeatedly to devise the ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies January 19,2020 )
Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by John Drury Clark
epub, pdf |eng | 1972-01-15 | Author:John Drury Clark

2. The classification of hydrogen, as a fair contributor of energy even though it, naturally, has a zero heat of formation, is explained by the fact that the molecule is ...
( Category: Aeronautics & Astronautics January 19,2020 )
Technology by Headrick Daniel R.;
epub |eng | 2009-03-14 | Author:Headrick, Daniel R.; [Headrick, Daniel R.;]

The Gutenberg Bible, the first large book printed with movable type, came from the Mainz print shop of Johann Gutenberg in the mid-1450s. It was printed on a wooden press, ...
( Category: History of Technology January 19,2020 )
Not Much of an Engineer by Stanley Hooker
epub |eng | 2011-08-16 | Author:Stanley Hooker [Hooker, Stanley]

Chapter 7 The Proteus I joined the Bristol Engine Division on 3 January 1949, full of optimism. The company was still producing large numbers of the excellent Hercules and Centaurus ...
( Category: History of Technology January 16,2020 )
The Science of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials by John Mary Gribbin
epub |eng | 2017-11-16 | Author:John Mary Gribbin [Gribbin, John Mary]

Chapter Six The Subtle Knife Hidden dimensions, and how to cut them "When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not ...
( Category: History of Technology January 6,2020 )
Promised the moon : the untold story of the first women in the space race by Nolen Stephanie
epub |eng | 2003-10-18 | Author:Nolen, Stephanie

Courtesy of Irene Leverton Courtesy of Wally Funk Wally Funk catches a ride in a T-33, Ft. Sill army base, 196L Irene Leverton in her first aviation job, on the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight October 19,2019 )
Aftershock: The Ancient Cataclysm That Erased Human History by Foerster Brien
epub |eng | 2016-06-22 | Author:Foerster, Brien [Foerster, Brien]

Finely shaped vase that clearly was made on a lathe As we see in the photo above and next page, there is a very even crease near the lip of ...
( Category: History of Technology October 12,2019 )
To Engineer Is Human by Henry Petroski
epub |eng | | Author:Henry Petroski

But the NYCTA claims it can’t get their Grumman 870’s crosstown. GRUMMAN Grumman’s ad may not be grammatically impeccable, but its message clearly suggests that New York’s transit authority acted ...
( Category: Drafting & Mechanical Drawing October 8,2019 )
A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts [1994] by Andrew Chaikin
epub, mobi |eng | 1994-05-31 | Author:Andrew Chaikin [Chaikin, Andrew]

CHAPTER 8 The Story of a Full-up Mission APOLLO 14 I: Big Al Flies Again Some memories are so bright that the passage of time cannot dim them. For Alan ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight September 30,2019 )
Archaeology from Space by Sarah Parcak
epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Parcak

Upmarket Afterlife Property Like other Middle Kingdom tombs that aimed high—even higher than the nomarchs of the Old Kingdom—this tomb had, when new, sought to imitate a pyramid’s front driveway. ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight September 6,2019 )
Revolution by Thomas A Watson
epub |eng | 2018-02-14 | Author:Thomas A Watson [Watson, Thomas A]

Chapter Seventeen Standing near the tree line in late January with Zeus beside him, Nelson watched the dozer and excavators clearing an old overgrown field a mile from the farm. ...
( Category: Military September 5,2019 )
The Vinyl Frontier by Jonathan Scott
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Scott

CHAPTER EIGHT Flowing Streams and Firecrackers ‘Well, I’ve been meaning to talk to you about that, Carl…’ Ann Druyan Ann had been given the assignment of finding a single piece ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science August 3,2019 )
The Code by Margaret O'Mara
epub |eng | 2019-07-08 | Author:Margaret O'Mara

THE CALIFORNIAN INVASION Steve Jobs still might be getting all the press, but there were close to a million people working in the computer industry in California in the middle ...
( Category: Venture Capital August 2,2019 )

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