History of engineering and technology Books
Author Solutions Inc Audi R8 30 Years of Quattro Awd
£56.95
de Gruyter In the Wake of the Compendia Infrastructural Contexts and the Licensing of Empiricism in Ancient and Medieval Mesopotamia Science Technology and Medicine in Ancient Cultures 3
Book SynopsisIn the Wake of the Compendia examines the composition of technical literature in the ancient Semitic-speaking world. This volume offers new perspectives on the early history of these compendia and their subsequent transmission into later post-cuneiform compilations, curricula, and scholarly writings.
£108.78
Read Books World Brain
£19.99
Basic Books More Everything Forever
£24.00
Avery Publishing Group Inc.,U.S. Jet Age: The Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World
Book SynopsisIn "Jet Age", journalist Sam Howe Verhovek explores the advent of the first generation of jet airliners and the people who designed, built, and flew them. The path to jet travel was triumphal and amazingly rapid-less than fifty years after the Wright Brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk, Great Britain led the world with the first commercial jet plane service. Yet the pioneering British Comet was cursed with a tragic, mysterious flaw, and an upstart Seattle company put a new competitor in the sky: the Boeing 707 Jet Stratoliner. "Jet Age" vividly re-creates the race between two nations, two global airlines, and two rival teams of brilliant engineers for bragging rights to the first jet service across the Atlantic Ocean in 1958. In the spirit of Stephen Ambrose's "Nothing Like It in the World", Verhovek's "Jet Age" offers a gorgeous rendering of an exciting age and fascinating technology that permanently changed our conception of distance and time.Trade Review"Breezy and fact-filled history...Mr. Verhovek spins a fine yarn that includes big money, war, sex and power." — The Wall Street Journal"Jet Age is a page-turning detective story with characters as finely drawn as those in a work of fiction, and infused with an infectious sense of wonder that drove ordinary men and women to reach for extraordinary heights." — The New York Times
£21.47
£18.57
Smithsonian Books On the Frontier: Experimental Flight at NASA Dryden
£28.32
£44.96
Lulu.com Rough Rails: My Auto-Train Days
£13.31
Lulu.com My Life On The Road
Book Synopsis
£12.83
£25.38
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Memories of Mary: The RMS Queen Mary in Pictures Volume III
£13.06
Authorhouse Women in Aviation
£25.95
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Understanding Logic from Boolean to Binomial
£23.41
Open Book Publishers The DARPA Model for Transformative Technologies: Perspectives on the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
£46.10
Acorn Books The Sam Coupe User's Guide
£13.26
Acorn Books Mastering the Commodore 64
£13.26
Zeticula Ltd On the Cucumber Tree
Book SynopsisScience and technology are the most potent influences driving the modern world. Most science is done in laboratories but, apart from a generalized image of an anonymous building populated by white-coated figures, few people outside the sciences have any idea how such places come into existence or how they work. This memoir approaches both issues from the author's personal experience. Peter Day's career took him to many countries and laboratories, including the Royal Institution in London, arguably the oldest continuously operating laboratory in the world - and, of course, much else besides. He looks at a selection of these places through the eyes of an 'incomer', trying to understand how they came into being and what makes them tick. He was the first member of his family to go to university and introductory chapters sketch his early life in a small Kentish village and tortuous route into science, along with vignettes of Oxford 50 years ago, a long-lost world. Laboratories, like most other human constructs, are brought into being through the ambition and hubris of individuals, kept going by intellect and sharp elbows, and sometimes brought low by blind egoism. This book shares examples of all these traits of humanity, observed, if not by an outsider then certainly by an incomer. Peter Day is an internationally recognised materials chemist who has received numerous honorary Fellowships, degrees and Academy memberships. From a small village in Kent, his career took him to Oxford and industrial research laboratories in the USA, followed by Directorship of a European institute in France and the Royal Institution in London. As well as many technical papers he has published books and articles about the practise of science, people who carry it out and organisations where it is done.Trade Review'This is the kind of book - an unassuming, informative, and entertaining memoir that ranges over personal, scientific, and administrative matters - that I think more of you should be writing. The book costs less than $20, and can be read on a long train trip. A historian will find many details about the grain of today's scientific life that are usually passed over in more formal or ambitious histories and biographies. We could use many more tales from the cucumber tree like this one.' Robert P. Crease, Chairman of the Department of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, New York. 'That Day almost chose arts instead of science at school shows in this elegantly written view of the influences on science and scientists in the later 20th century.' Derry Jones, Chemistry World, August 2012 'a wide-ranging and entertaining life story.' TW Magazine, 2013
£14.95
£13.27
P & I Nolan All-American Boys: An Insider's Look at the U.S. Space Program
Book SynopsisThis is a no-holds-barred candid memoir by a former Marine jet jockey and physicist who became NASA's second civilian astronaut. Walter Cunningham presents the astronauts in all their glory in this dramatically revised and updated edition that was considered an instant classic in its first edition over two decades ago. From its insider's view of the pervasive 'astropolitics' that guided the functioning of the astronaut corps to its thoughtful discussion of the Columbia tragedy, this book resonates with Cunningham's passion for humanity's destiny in space which endures today. This is a story of the triumph of American heroes. Cunningham brings us into NASA's training program and reveals what it takes to be an astronaut. He poignantly relates the story of the devastating Apollo 1 fire that took the lives of three astronauts and his own later successful flight on Apollo 7. This new edition includes an update of the manned space program and his 'tell it like it is' observation of NASA's successes and failures. It also includes commentary on the Shuttle disasters of Challenger and Columbia and his views on what NASA should be doing to get back on track and to regain public support.
£22.95
Stanley Museum The Stanleys of Newton: Yankee Tinkerers in the Gilded Age
£14.33
£20.99
Hobnob Press Echoes of Ingen Housz
£23.75
Footsteps Press Genius, Richard Trevithick's Steam Engines
£11.64
Whitefox Publishing Ltd Automatically Driven: My 50 Years in the Car Industry
£23.74
Signalman Publishing The Miracle Landing: The True Story of How the NBA's Minneapolis Lakers Almost Perished in an Iowa Cornfield During a January Blizzard
£14.30
Hugo House Publishers Datapoint: The Lost Story of the Texans Who Invented the Personal Computer Revolution
£19.27
Wolfgang Publications Harley-Davidson Evo, Hop-Up & Rebuild Manual: Learn how to build an engine like the pros
£27.95
BenBella Books Tractor Wars: John Deere, Henry Ford,
Book Synopsis"Mr. Dahlstrom...has written a superb history of the tractor and this long-forgotten period of capitalism in U.S. agriculture. We now know the whole story of when farming, business and the free-market economy diverged, divided and conquered." —Wall Street JournalDiscover the untold story of the “tractor wars,” the twenty-year period that introduced power farming—the most fundamental change in world agriculture in hundreds of years.Before John Deere, Ford, and International Harvester became icons of American business, they were competitors in a forgotten battle for the farm. From 1908-1928, against the backdrop of a world war and economic depression, these brands were engaged in a race to introduce the tractor and revolutionize farming. By the turn of the twentieth century, four million people had left rural America and moved to cities, leaving the nation’s farms shorthanded for the work of plowing, planting, cultivating, harvesting, and threshing. That’s why the introduction of the tractor is an innovation story as essential as man’s landing on the moon or the advent of the internet—after all, with the tractor, a shrinking farm population could still feed a growing world. But getting the tractor from the boardroom to the drafting table, then from factory and the farm, was a technological and competitive battle that until now, has never been fully told. A researcher, historian, and writer, Neil Dahlstrom has spent decades in the corporate archives at John Deere. In Tractor Wars, Dahlstrom offers an insider’s view of a story that entwines a myriad of brands and characters, stakes and plots: the Reverend Daniel Hartsough, a pastor turned tractor designer; Alexander Legge, the eventual president of International Harvester, a former cowboy who took on Henry Ford; William Butterworth and the oft-at-odds leadership team at John Deere that partnered with the enigmatic Ford but planned for his ultimate failure. With all the bitterness and drama of the race between Ford, Dodge, and General Motors, Tractor Wars is the untold story of industry stalwarts and disruptors, inventors, and administrators racing to invent modern agriculture—a power farming revolution that would usher in a whole new world.
£18.99
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp In Peace and War
£14.83
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp History and Evolution of Technology
£14.68
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp History and Evolution of Technology
£14.68
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp History and Evolution of Technology
£15.44
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Before Stuxnet
£9.47
Springer Spinning the Cosmos
Book SynopsisThe epistemological concept of volvelles.- The knowledge of the volvelles.- History of the volvelles.- De Sphaera editions.- Conclusion.
£34.99
De Gruyter Value-Based Engineering: A Guide to Building Ethical Technology for Humanity
Book SynopsisIn times of powerful AI systems, such as GPT, Value-based Engineering is deeply needed. It is a new transdisciplinary IT innovation- and engineering approachrespecting human values and societal consequences of IT systems as these are planned and in early evolution stages. The book tells the story of why we need technology for humanity more than ever before and what principles we should follow in building it. More concretely, it is a guide on how exactly companies should pursue their innovation efforts with an epilogue on how this is different from aspiring science fiction. The Value-based Engineering approach outlined in this book with concrete case-studies, forms and over 90 illustrations was developed and revised by over 100 experts from around the world engaged in a project called IEEE P7000 TM. https://www.value-based-engineering.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrLvHXQKvx17-PbWaYJzEQQ
£45.60
Books on Demand US-Trägerraketen 1: Vanguard - Redstone - Juno -
Book Synopsis
£22.70
Books on Demand Schmiedekunst und Glockenguss: Eine Zeitreise
Book Synopsis
£17.90
Alpha Edition Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to
Book Synopsis
£18.37
Alpha Edition Common Diseases of Farm Animals
Book Synopsis
£18.16
Alpha Edition The Art of Glass-Blowing; Plain Instruction for
Book Synopsis
£15.70
Alpha Edition The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer: With
Book Synopsis
£18.12
Alpha Edition Turkey Raising
£15.47
Alpha Edition TwentyFive Cent Dinners for Families of Six
£15.65
Alpha Edition Twentieth Century Inventions
£17.16
£15.01
Alpha Edition Progress in the household
£15.74
Alpha Edition Tunneling
£20.22
