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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

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362096135Author Carroll Mac SheridanPage Count 96Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783867414456Author Samuel Smiles, JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Europaischer Hochschulverlag Gmbh & Co. KgPublisher Europaischer...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357966757Author VariousPage Count 100Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

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

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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

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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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361469183Author VerschiedenPage Count 112Imprint Writat PublisherPublisher VIJ Books (India) Pty Ltd

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361472848Author Marion Mills MillerPage Count 110Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions