Technology
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Neal Stephenson [Stephenson, Neal]

Chapter 54 BRISBANE Through a small dusty window Xed with masking tape, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse gazes out at downtown Brisbane. Bustling it ain't. A taxi limps down the street and ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers October 1,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2000-06-01 | Author:Tracy Kidder [Kidder, Tracy]

THE WONDERFUL MICROMACHINES To almost everything they touched, the Microteam attached their prefix. The office that four of them shared, sitting virtually knee to knee, had a sign on the ...
( Category: History of Technology October 1,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1999-11-09 | Author:Neal Stephenson [Stephenson, Neal]

The Hole Hawg Of Operating Systems Unix has always lurked provocatively in the background of the operating system wars, like the Russian Army. Most people know it only by reputation, ...
( Category: Operating Systems September 29,2014 )
azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-03-01 | Author:Boxwell, Michael [Boxwell, Michael]

Maximum power point tracking More expensive solar controllers incorporate a technology called maximum power point tracking (MPPT). An MPPT controller adjusts the voltage being received from the solar array to ...
( Category: Solar September 28,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-06-20 | Author:Robert Bryce

India Is Not Going “Beyond Coal” In July 2012, blackouts hit northern India, leaving more than 600 million people—about twice the population of the United States—without electricity. Trains were stranded, ...
( Category: Electronics September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-30 | Author:Pico Iyer [Iyer, Pico]

One night, I went to have dinner with my friend David, whom I’d met on a plane down to Havana (he springing out at the first stop to play catch ...
( Category: Cultural September 19,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jim Benton

All afternoon Franny kept giving them one idea after another. She also checked and double-checked that the adjustments they were making were correct. Erin, Lawrence, and Phil got more and ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 16,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jim Benton

With a flash, and a pop, and a little puff of smoke, Franny found herself in front of her house, sometime in the future. CHAPTER TWELVE YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Gerald M. Stern [Stern, Gerald M.]

So, Pittston knew the company it was buying was not complying with federal safety standards and did not know how to comply. That’s one of the reasons Pittston was able ...
( Category: State & Local September 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Bauerlein, Mark [Bauerlein, Mark]

Years of consumption of low rare-word media, then, have a dire intellectual effect. A low-reading, high-viewing childhood and adolescence prevent a person from handling relatively complicated texts, not just professional ...
( Category: Philosophy & Social Aspects September 15,2014 )
azw3, mobi |eng | 2006-03-01 | Author:Adam Greenfield

Thesis 38 Everyware is problematic because it is hard to see literally. Like bio- and nanotechnology, everyware is a contemporary technics whose physical traces can be difficult or even impossible ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 10,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Seth Shulman

For the AEA, the path to a working airplane has been remarkably swift, with surprisingly few missteps. By December 1907, the group completed its first glider, the Cygnet, based on ...
( Category: History September 10,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Brian Clegg

PLENTY OF ROOM OUTSIDE When we consider Mars as a potential new frontier, it has a lot going for it. In terms of sheer scale, it dwarfs any new region ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science September 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-29 | Author:Sayigh, Ali

Solar control glass can reduce daylighting as well. Therefore, selecting glazing with specific characteristics is an important step in daylighting design. 9.12.1 Glazing The type of glazing used in a ...
( Category: Alternative & Renewable September 2,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-09-07 | Author:True Kelley [Edwards, Roberta]

Even so, Leonardo was very fond of Salai. He enjoyed spoiling him with presents. No matter how badly Salai behaved, Leonardo never asked him to leave. Salai stayed with him ...
( Category: Renaissance September 2,2014 )