History of Technology
mobi, epub, pdf | | 2009-12-26 | Author:Tom Wolfe

Well, there were some big grins, all right, up in the high desert, at Edwards, among the brethren. Here were some men who had something to smile about. Now the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 25,2014 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2007-02-02 | Author:Matthew Brzezinski

America had been bested on the international stage, and editors across the land now salivated at the prospect of finding someone to blame for the sluggishness and complacency of the ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-05-26 | Author:Mark Essig

CHAPTER 15 The Unmasking of Harold Brown ON AUGUST 25, just a few weeks after the hearings ended, the New York Sun published stunning revelations regarding Edison's interest in the ...
( Category: Electricity March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Singh, Simon [Singh, Simon]

5 The Language Barrier While British codebreakers were breaking the German Enigma cipher and altering the course of the war in Europe, American codebreakers were having an equally important influence ...
( Category: Cryptography March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Gleick, James [Gleick, James]

Put another way, H is a measure of surprise. Put yet another way, H is the average number of yes-no questions needed to guess the unknown message. Shannon had it ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub | | 1990-12-14 | Author:Alvin Toffler

( Category: Customs & Traditions March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Marc Levinson

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 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-10-24 | Author:Erik Larson

TWO DAYS LATER, on Saturday, February 22, 1902, Marconi once again boarded the Philadelphia. The main purpose of this voyage was to return to Canada to close the agreement with ...
( Category: Radio March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Poulsen, Kevin [Poulsen, Kevin]

21 Master Splyntr aking up one oor of a lime-green o ce building on the bank of the Monongahela River, the National Cyber Forensics and Training Alliance was far removed ...
( Category: Hacking March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1995-01-02 | Author:Henry Petroski

Clandestine ground-breaking in New Jersey for the Canal Street Tunnel by (left to right): C. M. Holland, chief engineer, for whom the tunnel would be named posthumously; G. H. Flinn, ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers March 25,2014 )
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 ...
( Category: Industrial Design March 25,2014 )
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 ...
( Category: Design & Construction March 25,2014 )
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 ...
( Category: International & World Politics March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-06-23 | Author:Dunn, Christopher [Dunn, Christopher]

In this land known for its enigma and wonder, a helter-skelter taxi ride at the tail end of a convoy of tourist buses dispels all romantic notions of the past. ...
( Category: Mysticism March 25,2014 )