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There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for a Digital Future by Kara Swisher
epub |eng | 2003-10-13 | Author:Kara Swisher [Swisher, Kara]

So we knew it was going to happen, and it did. The Black Horsemen came and cut down the revelers, even those with names of virtue engendered like Prudent and ...
( Category: Company Profiles May 2,2020 )
Bows and Arrows of the Native Americans: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Wooden Bows, Sinew-backed Bows, Composite Bows, Strings, Arrows, and Quivers by Jim Hamm
mobi |eng | 2019-01-24 | Author:Jim Hamm

Horsehair decorations. Bow in center shows wooden nub for attaching hair. I have seen two examples of Comanche bows that were incised, or carved, on the belly. One, in the ...
( Category: Archery May 2,2020 )
The American Robot by Dustin A. Abnet
epub |eng | 2020-03-29 | Author:Dustin A. Abnet

The Totalitarian Robot When Silberman and Blank tried to revive R.U.R. in 1942, they offered the public an explanation of fascism that emphasized the universality of the enemy. The play ...
( Category: United States April 12,2020 )
Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) by Mindell David A
epub |eng | 2003-04-29 | Author:Mindell, David A. [Mindell, David A.]

Fig. 7.2. Vannevar Bush’s “antiaircraft problem”: schematic of antiaircraft-system elements from a promotion for Western Electric’s M-9 electrical gun director ca. 1944. Enemy plane (1) is spotted and followed by ...
( Category: Robotics & Automation April 4,2020 )
01 Submarine by Tom Clancy
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Tom Clancy [Clancy, Tom]

Tactical Example—Stalking a Russian SSBN They’re still out there. They’re called boomers in the U.S. Navy, bombers in the Royal Navy. They are the fleet ballistic missile submarines, really creatures ...
( Category: Submarines April 4,2020 )
Dawn of the Metal Age by Jonathan M. Golden
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan M. Golden [Jonathan M. Golden]

By addressing these questions, each of which pertain to various stages or facets of the metallurgical process, we can attempt to reconstruct the entire process of copper production. Raw Material: ...
( Category: History of Technology April 3,2020 )
The Electronics Revolution by J.B. Williams
epub |eng | | Author:J.B. Williams

Some technical improvements in the program storage ROMs helped to increase their usage. First was the obvious idea of the One Time Programmable ROM (OTP). This really was just an ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies April 2,2020 )
Boston on fire : a history of fires and firefighting in Boston by Schorow Stephanie
epub |eng | 2003-04-14 | Author:Schorow, Stephanie

BOSTON ON FIRE had died just two weeks earlier in a Ere in the Luongo Restaurant in East Boston. By now the fire department had fifty-three engine companies^ thirty-one ladder ...
( Category: Fire Science April 1,2020 )
Androids in the Enlightenment by Voskuhl Adelheid;
epub |eng | 2013-03-14 | Author:Voskuhl, Adelheid; [Voskuhl, Adelheid]

SIX The “Enlightenment Automaton” in the Modern Industrial Age In this final chapter, I follow the path taken by the figure of the “Enlightenment automaton” in the nineteenth and twentieth ...
( Category: Robotics & Automation March 31,2020 )
The Nation's Hangar by F. Robert van der Linden
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-02-22 | Author:F. Robert van der Linden [Van Der Linden, F. Robert]

The Museum’s Kawanishi N1K2-J Shinden “George,” a land-based descendant of the “Rex” floatplane fighter, was restored in the markings of the 343rd Kokutai, a unit stationed at Omura Naval Air ...
( Category: Aviation History March 31,2020 )
Men of Invention and Industry by Samuel Smiles
epub |eng | 2012-06-20 | Author:Samuel Smiles

CHAPTER VIII. WILLIAM CLOWES: INTRODUCER OF BOOK-PRINTING BY STEAM. "The Images of men's wits and knowledges remain in Books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. ...
( Category: Industrial, Manufacturing & Operational Systems March 28,2020 )
Pegasus, The Heart of the Harrier: The History and Development of the World's First Operational Vertical Take-off and Landing Jet Engine by Andrew Dow
epub |eng | 2009-08-20 | Author:Andrew Dow [Dow, Andrew]

Assuming that George Brown’s account of the conversation is accurate, it was clearly not the whole story. It could not be assumed that Bristol Siddeley had spare capacity, as in ...
( Category: Miniatures March 28,2020 )
Stealth by Peter Westwick
epub, azw3 |eng | 2019-11-22 | Author:Peter Westwick [Westwick, Peter]

Once the planform was set, the next step was to add volume to the aircraft. The ideal shape to minimize radar cross section is an infinitely thin flat plate. A ...
( Category: Aircraft Design & Construction March 27,2020 )
Spacewalk by Carl R. Green
epub |eng | 2013-03-14 | Author:Carl R. Green [Holden, Henry M.]

Life in Orbit After a short rest, the Gemini 4 astronauts settled into a regular routine. Both men wore their G4C space suits throughout the mission. The suits protected the ...
( Category: History of Technology March 25,2020 )
Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine by Angela N. H. Creager
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-06-15 | Author:Angela N. H. Creager

purchased from Oak Ridge, Moore sought to challenge Whipple's theory that iron uptake was controlled by the intestinal mucosa and regulated by iron stores in the body.66 Moore used healthy ...
( Category: Radiology March 23,2020 )

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