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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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357969581Author John Alexander AndersonPage Count 86Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362094995Author William MetcalfPage Count 124Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361475863Author Mary A McCormackPage Count 34Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357939508Author Harry Chase BrearleyPage Count 262Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Originally published in 1958, this book places the life of Robert Boyle in the wider context of seventeenth-century chemistry. Boas includes extracts from Boyle's writings to illustrate how his ideas and discoveries on theoretical matters influenced and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361477485Author F B WrightPage Count 170Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357952392Author Alberto Santos-DumontPage Count 144Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361474675Author Edward HazenPage Count 194Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361470493Author Anna A GillPage Count 132Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361479021Author Edward HazenPage Count 192Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361472831Author M C HillickPage Count 214Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

This official catalogue, reissued here in its updated third edition, appeared in 1862 to accompany London's International Exhibition of that year. Held from May to November in South Kensington, on a site now occupied by the Natural History Museum and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361472169Author Mary F HendersonPage Count 366Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Cornishman Richard Trevithick (1771-1833) was one of the pioneering engineers of the Industrial Revolution. Best remembered today for his early railway locomotive, Trevithick worked on a wide range of projects, including mines, mills, dredging machinery,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362092595Author George M MowbrayPage Count 100Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357962964Author Roger B WhitmanPage Count 122Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Sir Charles Tilston Bright (1832-88) was a renowned telegraph engineer, best known for his role in laying the first successful transatlantic cable in 1858, for which he was knighted. Bright later worked on the telegraph networks that would span not only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784867511770Author Malcolm ArchibaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Next ChapterPublisher Next ChapterWeight(grams) 236g

Originally published in 1914, this book contains a study of the causes that lead to the appearance of males and females in a number of species, including humans. Doncaster uses simple language to appeal to a non-specialist audience, and the text is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361470257Author Hatter John ThomsonPage Count 42Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362091024Author W H CollinsPage Count 48Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361471643Author C DeitePage Count 216Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784867511800Author Malcolm ArchibaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Next ChapterPublisher Next ChapterWeight(grams) 494g

Originally published during the early part of the twentieth century, the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature were designed to provide concise introductions to a broad range of topics. They were written by experts for the general reader and...

Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell (1816-1904) was a leading metallurgist and industrialist who served as president of both the Iron and Steel Institute and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He combined business skills with scientific expertise and was...

This book is a study of the astronomical culture of sixteenth-century Europe. It examines, in particular, the ways in which members of the nascent international astronomical community shared information, attracted patronage and respect for their work,...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781490796550Author Mark CanepaFormat PaperbackPage Count 790Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 1039g

The craft of manufacturing cotton was learnt by the British in India, but the East India Company's drive for profits caused the development of a cotton-spinning industry in Britain, which grew enormously when mechanical processes were introduced during...

Originally published in 1934, this book contains a collection of papers written by Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, inventor of the steam turbine. The papers focus primarily on the steam turbine and Parsons' attempts to manufacture synthetic diamonds, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361475658Author George James CoxPage Count 128Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

In this book the diverse objects of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science's internationally renowned collection are brought into sharp relief by a number of highly regarded historians of science in fourteen essays. Each chapter focuses on a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784867511794Author Malcolm ArchibaldFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Next ChapterPublisher Next ChapterWeight(grams) 667g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357963671Author Miss LambertPage Count 50Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions