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All Hands Down by Kenneth Sewell & Jerome Preisler
epub |eng | | Author:Kenneth Sewell & Jerome Preisler

When she opened the door, Barbara instantly registered two things: the storm clouds had broken to reveal wide patches of blue, sunny sky, and the person standing in front of ...
( Category: History of Technology March 19,2020 )
Engines of Tomorrow by Robert Buderi
epub |eng | 2000-07-15 | Author:Robert Buderi

The existence of two optical states—one highly refractive, the other not—began to sound to Linke like the basis for a storage medium. After all, typical disk drives rely on two ...
( Category: Strategy & Competition March 19,2020 )
Samsung Rising by Geoffrey Cain
epub |eng | 2020-03-16 | Author:Geoffrey Cain

mSpot co-founder Daren Tsui. After his software company was acquired by Samsung, he became vice president for content and services, running Samsung’s streaming music service, Milk Music. Tsui and Ho ...
( Category: Workplace Culture March 18,2020 )
Bikes and Bloomers by Jungnickel Kat;
epub |eng | | Author:Jungnickel, Kat;

Madame Julia Gill’s court dressmaking services were probably one of many small businesses offering services to new cyclists, amongst other seasonal dress requirements. Through her patented design, we might assume ...
( Category: Sewing March 18,2020 )
History of Mechanical Inventions by Usher Abbott Payson;
epub |eng | 2012-06-05 | Author:Usher, Abbott Payson;

III The extent of the explicit contributions of Leonardo may be best appreciated by the following summary of his accomplishments in the fields of applied mechanics, hydraulics, and military engineering. ...
( Category: History March 17,2020 )
Sonic Skills by Karin Bijsterveld
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Karin Bijsterveld

Conclusions This chapter has argued that we need both the notion of listening modes and the notion of sonic skills to understand how sound has been used as a path ...
( Category: History of Technology March 17,2020 )
Death Is All around Us by Weber Jonathan M.;
epub |eng | | Author:Weber, Jonathan M.;

Fig. 9. Monroe S. Leech, patent 6,620, “Mortuary Box.” The glass dome is listed as figure 1. Archivo General de la Nación, Grupo Documental-Patentes y Marcas, legajo 307, expediente 80, ...
( Category: Public Health March 15,2020 )
The Farming Ladder by Henderson G
epub |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Henderson, G. [Henderson, G.]

Under war conditions pigkeeping brought many new problems, though they have been overcome, and it is still a profitable branch of the business, while the pig manure is more valuable ...
( Category: History of Technology March 15,2020 )
The Republic of Color by Michael Rossi
epub |eng | 2019-08-29 | Author:Michael Rossi

CHAPTER SEVEN THE LOGICAL AND THE GENETIC Bodies, Work, and Formal Color Notations THE LESSON Denman Ross was a Harvard art professor; color system author; and sometimes-rival, sometimes-friend of Alfred ...
( Category: Physiology March 15,2020 )
Returning People to the Moon After Apollo by Pat Norris
epub |eng | | Author:Pat Norris

Moore’s Law Perhaps the most obvious reason why human flights to the Moon ended in the 1970s is that since then we humans have been outperformed by machines. We continue ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 15,2020 )
The Art of War by Baron de Jomini
epub |eng | 2013-10-19 | Author:Baron de Jomini [Jomini, Baron de]

It should be observed that these different orders are not to be understood precisely as the geometrical figures indicate them. A general who would expect to arrange his line of ...
( Category: History & Theory March 14,2020 )
Women and Ideas in Engineering by Hahn Laura D.; Wolters Angela S.;
epub |eng | 2018-12-04 | Author:Hahn, Laura D.; Wolters, Angela S.; [Неизв.]

FIGURE 7.5 Cinda Heeren, 2016. Photo courtesy of Laura Hahn. Most recently, I happened to watch a TED talk from Ron Eglash in which he described the fractal or recursive ...
( Category: Women in History March 14,2020 )
Ronald Reagan and the Space Frontier by John M. Logsdon
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:John M. Logsdon

Linking space achievements to his concept of American exceptionalism, Reagan suggested that “by accepting the challenge of space we’ll carry forward the same courage and indomitable spirit that made us ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 14,2020 )
Why Has America Stopped Inventing? by Darin Gibby
epub |eng | 2017-03-12 | Author:Darin Gibby

Chapter Eleven COLT TURNS TO THE COURTS After struggling for twenty years, Colt had—with the help of the Mexican War—turned himself into a millionaire almost overnight. But he was facing ...
( Category: History of Technology March 13,2020 )
Wheels, Clocks, and Rockets by Donald Cardwell
epub |eng | | Author:Donald Cardwell

Water Power in the United States Another ancient craft that came close to technological perfection by the middle of the century was that of water power. Running water was still ...
( Category: History of Technology March 13,2020 )

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