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Floodpath by Jon Wilkman
epub |eng | 2015-11-09 | Author:Jon Wilkman [Wilkman, Jon]

10. Los Angeles on Trial Nine days after the St. Francis flood ebbed into the Pacific, accusations of a link between the disaster and a dynamite plot headlined newspapers and ...
( Category: Environmental February 15,2016 )
Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles by Standiford Les
epub, azw |eng | 2015-03-30 | Author:Standiford, Les [Standiford, Les]

FITS AND STARTS IN THE END, THE FUNDING SLOWDOWN ACTUALLY WORKED in Mulholland’s favor. With much of the hardest tasks behind him, any walkouts simply meant fewer men to pay, ...
( Category: Environmental June 10,2015 )
Panama Fever by Matthew Parker
azw3, epub, mobi |eng | 2007-08-14 | Author:Matthew Parker

allace would complain that the delays in sorting out the problems in accommodation were down to “supplies taking for ever to arrive” and the labor “immediately available and who could ...
( Category: Design & Construction February 3,2015 )
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Walter Isaacson [Isaacson, Walter]

Alan Kay (1940– ) at Xerox PARC in 1974. Kay’s 1972 sketch for a Dynabook. Lee Felsenstein (1945– ). The first issue, October 1972. By keeping children (of all ages) ...
( Category: Hacking February 2,2015 )
The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-09-18 | Author:Tom Standage

crYPTOGRAPHY—tinkering with codes and ciphers—was a common hobby among Victorian gentlemen. Wheatstone and his friend Charles Bab-bage, who is best known for his failed attempts to build a mechanical computer, ...
( Category: History of Technology January 28,2015 )
Panama Fever: The Epic Story of One of the Greatest Human Achievements of All Time--The Building of the of the Panama Canal by Parker Matthew
mobi |eng | 2007-10-15 | Author:Parker, Matthew [Parker, Matthew]

allace would complain that the delays in sorting out the problems in accommodation were down to “supplies taking for ever to arrive” and the labor “immediately available and who could ...
( Category: Design & Construction January 6,2015 )
The Secret History of Extraterrestrials: Advanced Technology and the Coming New Race by Kasten Len
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-10 | Author:Kasten, Len [Kasten, Len]

MR. STEALTH In the four-year period after he first read Night Siege, Gonsalves published a periodic newsletter giving updates on his ongoing investigations. Copies of the newsletter, titled Stealth B-2 ...
( Category: New Thought December 27,2014 )
The Innovators by Walter Isaacson
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Walter Isaacson [Isaacson, Walter]

Alan Kay (1940– ) at Xerox PARC in 1974. Kay’s 1972 sketch for a Dynabook. Lee Felsenstein (1945– ). The first issue, October 1972. By keeping children (of all ages) ...
( Category: Hacking October 27,2014 )
Replay: The History of Video Games by Tristan Donovan
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-04-20 | Author:Tristan Donovan [Donovan, Tristan]

Merchants of Doom: (left to right) John Carmack, Kevin Cloud, Adrian Carmack, John Romero, Tom Hall and Jay Wilbur. Courtesy of John Romero 20. The Ultimate Display In 1965 computer ...
( Category: History of Technology October 13,2014 )
The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:Walter Isaacson

THE COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS Among the tribes of the Bay Area in the years leading up to the birth of the personal computer was a cohort of community organizers and peace ...
( Category: Hacking October 9,2014 )
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-30 | Author:Steven Johnson

Cholera victim It was the first mass chlorination of a city’s water supply in history. Once word got out, however, it initially seemed as though Leal was a madman or ...
( Category: History of Technology October 8,2014 )
The Innovators How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:Walter Isaacson [Isaacson, Walter]

THE COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS Among the tribes of the Bay Area in the years leading up to the birth of the personal computer was a cohort of community organizers and peace ...
( Category: Hacking October 8,2014 )
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
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 )
Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper by Robert Bryce
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 )
The Intel Trinity: How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company by Malone Michael S
epub |eng | 2014-07-27 | Author:Malone, Michael S. [Malone, Michael S.]

CHAPTER 27 Beatification Intel entered the 1970s as a young start-up dedicated to taking leadership of the MOS memory business. Total annual revenues in 1970 were $4.2 million, losses were ...
( Category: Industrial Relations August 22,2014 )

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