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William Tulloch Jeans (1848-1907) was a parliamentary journalist with an interest in economics and technology. This book was first published in 1884, and comprises biographies of six men whom Jeans believed to have made significant contributions to the...

Silvanus P. Thompson (1851-1916) was a physicist and electrical engineer. A professor by the age of 27, he taught at University College, Bristol, and the City and Guilds Finsbury Technical College in London, and was a leading expert on the newly emerging...

Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744-1817) was a noted Irish educationalist, engineer and inventor. This two-volume autobiography, begun in 1808, was published in 1820. Edgeworth had abandoned the project in 1809, having covered the period to 1781, and it was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361471131Author Franklin Allison CreseePage Count 130Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357966474Author W Hamilton GibsonPage Count 60Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362092878Author Pierre-Joseph Buc'hozPage Count 98Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357932103Author Benjamin StrongPage Count 148Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

This book tells the story of Agent Orange, its usage and the policies that surround it. Agent Orange contains a contaminant known as TCDD. It was the most widely used defoliant from 1965 - 1970 and became one of three major tactical herbicides used in...

This book provides science and technology ethos to a literate person. It starts with a rather detailed treatment of basic concepts in human values, educational status and domains of education, development of science and technology and their contributions...

Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744-1817) was a noted Irish educationalist, engineer and inventor. This two-volume autobiography, begun in 1808, was completed by his novelist daughter Maria, and published in 1820. Edgeworth's interest in education is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781421809526Author Herbert Newton CassonFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint 1st World LibraryPublisher 1st World LibraryWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783736971004Author Mufit BahadirFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint CuvillierPublisher CuvillierWeight(grams) 522g

Biometric identification and registration systems are being proposed by governments and businesses across the world. Surprisingly they are under most rapid, and systematic, development in countries in Africa and Asia. In this groundbreaking book, Keith...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362099884Author Sidney MorganPage Count 296Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

The construction of the first Westminster Bridge, upon which Wordsworth composed his famous sonnet, presented many challenges in terms of the materials and methods with which a sturdy bridge could be built in tidal water and on a gravelly riverbed. A...

As a civil engineer, Sir John Fowler (1817-98) devoted his life to the railways. His best-known achievements include the first railway bridge across the Thames in London, Manchester Central Station, the development of the London Underground and (with Sir...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361471506Author Sylvester GrahamPage Count 54Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

John Fleming (1785-1857) was a minister of the Church of Scotland, but in his time at the University of Edinburgh he had also studied geology and zoology. In the tradition of the country parson who was also a talented and knowledgeable naturalist, he...

This seminal study explores the national, imperial and indigenous interests at stake in a major survey expedition undertaken by the German Schlagintweit brothers, while in the employ of the East India Company, through South and Central Asia in the 1850s...

The discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand hills and the Transvaal region of South Africa sparked a rush in the late 1880s. Competition between the British and Boer settlers for access and control of this valuable commodity was one of the underlying...

This book provides science and technology ethos to a literate person. It starts with a rather detailed treatment of basic concepts in human values, educational status and domains of education, development of science and technology and their contributions...

In 1866, William Howard Russell (1820-1907) published this work, the official account of the July 1865 expedition on board the Great Eastern to lay a cable along the Atlantic Ocean floor between Valentia, Ireland, and Foilhummerum Bay in Newfoundland. It...

This biography of the civil engineer Thomas Telford (1757-1834) was published in 1867 by Samuel Smiles (1812-1904), the author of Self-Help and of other biographies of engineers and innovators. Smiles had already written about Telford's life and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361476914Author Samuel McHarryPage Count 82Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

This book provides a compact history of gears, by summarizing the main stages of their development and the corresponding gradual acquisition of engineering expertise, from the antiquity to the Renaissance and the twentieth century. This brief history...

The Origins of Modern Science is the first synthetic account of the history of science from antiquity through the Scientific Revolution in many decades. Providing readers of all backgrounds and students of all disciplines with the tools to study science...

A self-taught authority on electromagnetic theory, telegraphy and telephony, Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925) dedicated his adult life to the improvement of electrical technologies. Inspired by James Clerk Maxwell's field theory, he spent the 1880s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361477195Author AnonymousPage Count 60Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Originally a maker of wax anatomical models, William Fothergill Cooke (1806-79) became aware of the new electric telegraph while he studied anatomy in Germany. Hoping initially for a return of perhaps a hundred pounds from the English railway companies,...

The French diplomat and engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805-1894) was instrumental in the successful completion of the Suez Canal, which reduced by 3000 miles the distance by sea between Bombay and London. This two-volume memoir, written towards the end...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362098887Author Eastman CompanyPage Count 40Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

A political and social reformer, Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) was also a noted biographer in the Victorian period. Following the engineer's death in 1848, Smiles published his highly successful Life of George Stephenson in 1857 (also reissued in this...

In this major study, the history of the French and British trading empires in the early modern Mediterranean is used as a setting to test a new approach to the history of ignorance: how can we understand the very act of ignoring - in political, economic,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361475078Author S D HumphreyPage Count 150Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

The book highlights women’s contributions to science, which have often been marginalized and overlooked throughout history. The book first provides an overview of the development of the various science professions over time - placed in socioeconomic and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783743142893Author Uwe H SueltzFormat PaperbackPage Count 490Imprint Books on DemandPublisher Books on DemandWeight(grams) 771g

Replete with detailed engravings, this four-volume catalogue was published to accompany the International Exhibition of 1862. Held in South Kensington from May to November, the exhibition showcased the progress made in a diverse range of crafts, trades...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935623601Author David J. WhalenFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Smithsonian Institution Scholarly PressPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361470813Author W F WhitePage Count 110Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362090492Author AnonymousPage Count 36Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions