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The Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering--in fact, it was technically impossible according to the standards of its day. Impossible...

In the nineteenth century, science and technology developed a close and continuing relationship. The most important advancements in physics-the science of energy and the theory of the electromagnetic field-were deeply rooted in the new technologies of...

Seeking to replicate the success of his New York electric central station throughout the United States and in Europe and Latin America, Thomas A. Edison vowed to become a "business man for a year." This bold decision began a remarkable transition period...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700169161Author Ernest BraunFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Austrian Academy of Sciences PressPublisher Austrian Academy of Sciences...

The written word has been a central bearer of culture since antiquity. But its position is now being challenged by the powerful media of electronic communication. In this penetrating and witty book James O'Donnell takes a reading on the promise and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503517803Author P ScholliersFormat PaperbackPage Count 295Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm) 237mm * 155mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879335998Author Kenneth L. CopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Astragal PressPublisher Astragal Press

In many ways this book tells a familiar story in British industry: of innovation and enterprise in the early decades ...of worldwide dominance at a time when Britain was the workshop of the world ...of wars and economic downturns ...of foreign...

A deep and timely account of how American newspapers were produced and distributed on paper.Winner of the Best Book in Canadian Business History by the Canadian Business History AssociationPopular assessments of printed newspapers have become so grim...

Besides being the right thing to do for Mother Earth, recycling can also make money-particularly when it comes to upcycling, a zero waste practice where discarded materials are fashioned into goods of greater economic or cultural value. In Upcycling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931626286Author The Early American Industry AssociationFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Astragal PressPublisher Astragal PressWeight(grams) 132g

In 1974, not long after developing the first universal optical character recognition technology, Raymond Kurzweil struck up a conversation with a blind man on a flight. Kurzweil explained that he was searching for a use for his new software. The blind...

For better or worse, television has been the dominant medium of communication for fifty years. Yet it is a relatively recent invention, one that required passionate inventors, determined businessmen, government regulators, and willing consumers. This...

Explores the role of technology in the larger political and economic fabric of Southeast Asia.In Technology in Southeast Asian History, Suzanne Moon explores the profound entanglement of technology with Southeast Asian politics, social life, economics,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935623977Author Nina MollersFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Smithsonian Institution Scholarly PressPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804675632Author Nicholas KnupfferFormat HardbackPage Count 164Imprint Bookvault PublishingPublisher Bookvault PublishingWeight(grams) 956g

The aftermath of September 11, 2001, brought the subject of engineering-failure forensics to public attention as had no previous catastrophe. In keeping with the engineering profession's long tradition of building a positive future out of disasters, ...

Offering a deeper understanding of today's internet media and the management theory behind itPlatforms are everywhere. From social media to chat, streaming, credit cards, and even bookstores, it seems like almost everything can be described as a platform...

A new industrial revolution. The age of making. From bits to atoms. Many people are excited by the possibilities offered by new fabrication technologies like 3D printers, and the way in which they are being used in hacker and makerspaces. But why is the...

Learn about the role that patent models played in American history--and even learn to build your own replica!Patent models, working models required for US patent filings from 1790 to 1880, offer insight into--and inspiration from--a period of intense...

The first comprehensive history of auto regulation in the United States.Regulation has shaped the evolution of the automobile from the beginning. In Moving Violations, Lee Vinsel shows that, contrary to popular opinion, these restrictions have not...

A serious scholarly look at the work of R. Buckminster Fuller is long overdue. While Fuller himself wrote and published many volumes, and several biographies were written about him, there is little research that contributes to a critical understanding of...

An underpinning force in Singapore's remarkable 50-year transformation into a sophisticated world-class city, engineering has contributed significantly to the nation's economic, infrastructural and social developments.A joint publication by The...

The role of National Socialism in the development of German society remains a central question of historical inquiry. This study presents original answers by examining the politics of inventing, a crucial but long ignored problem at the intersection of...

The role of National Socialism in the development of German society remains a central question of historical inquiry. This study presents original answers by examining the politics of inventing, a crucial but long ignored problem at the intersection of...

Noelle Mole Liston's The Truth Society seeks to understand how a period of Italian political spectacle, which regularly blurred fact and fiction, has shaped how people understand truth, mass-mediated information, scientific knowledge, and forms of...

Originally published in 1970, this volume is a valuable source of extensive data concerning Scotland’s railways and locomotives. Material that has appeared in books, technical journals, society and institutional proceedings is here gathered together,...

The surprising story of cork and its critical role in US security and the war effort.Winner of the IPPY Book Award History (World), Silver of the Independent PublisherIn 1940, with German U-boats blockading all commerce across the Atlantic Ocean, a...

A fascinating account of one of America's most important industries and its dangers.Throughout the early twentieth century, railroad safety steadily improved across the United States. But by the 1960s, American railroads had fallen apart, the result of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550228632Author Judy WearingFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 293g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226726342Author William RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062279354Author David BarrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & CompanyWeight(grams) 336g

A study of the development of the Saturn launch vehicle that took Americans to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s. The Saturn rocket was developed as a means of accomplishing President John F. Kennedy's goal for the United States to reach the moon before...

Immersed in their on-demand, highly consumptive, and disposable lifestyles, most urban Americans take for granted the technologies that provide them with potable water, remove their trash, and process their wastewater. These vital services, however, are...

Originally published in 1970, this volume is a valuable source of extensive data concerning Scotland's railways and locomotives. Material that has appeared in books, technical journals, society and institutional proceedings is here gathered together,...

From the recovery of ancient ritual magic at the height of the Renaissance to the ignominious demise of alchemy at the dawn of the Enlightenment, Mark A. Waddell explores the rich and complex ways that premodern people made sense of their world. He...

Running counter to the general decline of technological industries in post-Victorian Britain, optical munitions provides an important, previously overlooked, study into the business of manufacturing.Book InformationISBN 9781138661967Author Stephen C...

Noelle Mole Liston's The Truth Society seeks to understand how a period of Italian political spectacle, which regularly blurred fact and fiction, has shaped how people understand truth, mass-mediated information, scientific knowledge, and forms of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262044301Author David P. BillingtonFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

A pathbreaking history of the regulatory foundations of America's twentieth-century aerial preeminence.Today, the federal government possesses unparalleled authority over the atmosphere of the United States. Yet when the Wright Brothers inaugurated the...