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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781316519004Author Mary S. MorganFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

James Erskine-Murray (1868-1927) was a Scots expert in wireless technology who studied under Lord Kelvin for six years at Glasgow University before arriving at Trinity College, Cambridge as a research student. He eventually became a telegraphy consultant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361477348Author James W BurgessPage Count 156Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361470127Author Frederick Arthur Ambrose TalbotPage Count 188Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

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...

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Thomas Stevenson (1818-1887) was the son of the engineer Robert Stevenson, and father of the writer Robert Louis Stevenson. Like his brothers David and Alan, he became a lighthouse designer, being responsible for over thirty examples around Scotland...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784867511787Author Malcolm ArchibaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Next ChapterPublisher Next ChapterWeight(grams) 172g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781540248688Author Richard R BenningtonFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint History PRPublisher History PRWeight(grams) 431g

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 9789361465741Author DiversPage Count 108Imprint Writat PublisherPublisher VIJ Books (India) Pty Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362095909Author Margaret Smith FurryPage Count 44Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

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For centuries, laymen and priests, lone thinkers and philosophical schools in Greece, China, the Islamic world and Europe reflected with wisdom and perseverance on how the natural world fits together. As a rule, their methods and conclusions, while often...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361478321Author Charles Fergus BinnsPage Count 134Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361474897Author W H WoodPage Count 102Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

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After completing his studies at Trinity College, Oxford, John Charnock (1756-1807) joined the Royal Navy as a volunteer. Though details of his career at sea are lacking, he is known to have embarked on assiduous research into historical and contemporary...

Written in 1844 by Henry Hutchinson, this book, as the title suggests, focuses on the practical aspects of land drainage, advising readers to first consider the plan, cost, and mode of draining carefully. The treatise begins with a general address to the...

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An observatory and a lighthouse form the nexus of this major new investigation of science, religion, and the state in late Ottoman Egypt. Astronomy, imperial bureaucrats, traditionally educated Muslim scholars, and reformist Islamic publications, such as...

Originally published in 1934, this book was written by the renowned British civil engineer Sir Charles Inglis (1875-1952), inventor of the Inglis Bridge and head of the Cambridge University Engineering Department from 1919 to 1943. The text presents a...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357969673Author M T RunnelsPage Count 36Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

This study explores the shared history of the French Empire from a perspective of material culture in order to re-evaluate the participation of colonial, creole and indigenous agency in the construction of imperial spaces. The decentered approach to a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357959605Author Sarah Josepha HalePage Count 708Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

In 1870, Sir William Crookes (1832-1919) travelled to Gibraltar to observe the solar eclipse. He kept a diary and produced beautiful accounts of the expedition - alongside altogether more specific observations, including the 656 steps down a local cliff...

Man s quest for speed is driven by two ambitions. One is the competitive urge to excel to go as fast as possible by any available means, and preferably to go faster than anybody else. The other, more practical, aim is to make travel and transport as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361477744Author Kate Buffington Davis and ConsPage Count 140Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

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This book, first published by Cambridge University Press in 1955, investigates the origins of The Equatorie of the Planetis, a fourteenth-century manuscript in the library of Peterhouse, Cambridge. Dr Price, a historian of science, examines the idea that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361470615Author Andrew Frederick HunterPage Count 98Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

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