History

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806539966Author Marc J. SeiferFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed the basis of modern AC electricity, and contributed to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262529310Author Elting E. MorisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 162mm * 106mm * 14mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143128328Author Steve LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 274g

Offering a compelling look inside the Space Shuttle missions that helped lay the groundwork for the Space Age from the perspective of those tasked with making them happen, Shuttle, Houston explores the determined personalities, technological miracles,...

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020How did we end up in a world where humans coexist with technologies we can no longer fully control or understand?George Dyson plots an unexpected course through the past 300 years to reveal the hidden connections...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912685431Author Kat JungnickelFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Goldsmiths, University of LondonPublisher Goldsmiths, University of London

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486434643Author Frank D. PragerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800350281Author David BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

Constructing the Subject traces the history of psychological research methodology from the nineteenth century to the emergence of currently favored styles of research in the second quarter of the twentieth century. Kurt Danziger considers methodology to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809914Author J. C. CarbonelFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

The Other World examines the public fascination with spiritualism and psychical research in Britain from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. It explores the variety of social background, education, and professional expertise that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981854915Author Andrew A. MarinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 462Imprint CassandraPublisher CassandraWeight(grams) 674gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 26mm

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people ever to set foot on the Moon, their iconic "small steps" captured forever by the camera the astronauts carried with them: the Hasselblad 500EL. This book looks at the history of the...

Coal, gas and oil have been capitalism's main fuels since the industrial revolution. And yet, of all the fossil fuels ever consumed, more than half were burned in the last 50 years. Most alarming of all, fossil fuel consumption has grown fastest in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547574Author Michael BattyFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

In 1710 an obscure Devon ironmonger Thomas Newcomen invented a machine with a pump driven by coal, used to extract water from mines. Over the next two hundred years the steam engine would be at the heart of the industrial revolution that changed the...

In the early 1970s, a German study estimated that women expended as many calories cleaning their coal-mining husbands' work clothes as their husbands did working below ground, arguably making the home as much a site of industrialized work as factories...

The Adjustable Spanner is the product of thirty years' collecting and original research, fired by Ron Geesin's acquisition of the SLIK adjustable spanner that hung in his father's garage. At the core of this book is a concise history of this...

Foreword by Dr. Roger D. Launius, Former NASA Chief Historian For the past 75 years, the U.S. government has invested significant time and money into advanced aerospace research, as evidenced by its many experimental X-plane aircraft and rockets. NASA's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603863117Author Henry T BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Watchmaker PublishingPublisher Watchmaker PublishingWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

This book provides a history of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), a large Britain- based chemical firm which was a major industrial player in the twentieth century. Once a model for Britain's industrial reach and dominance, ICI collapsed in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262537407Author Julie A CohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm

The Oxford Illustrated History of Science is the first ever fully illustrated global history of science, from Aristotle to the atom bomb - and beyond. The first part of the book tells the story of science in both East and West from antiquity to the...

Millions of people have listened to John H. Lienhard's radio program "The Engines of Our Ingenuity." In this fascinating book, Lienhard gathers his reflections on the nature of technology, culture, and human inventiveness. The book brims with insightful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375706394Author Henry PetroskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

What is innovation? How is innovation used in business? How can we use it to succeed? Innovation, the ways ideas are made valuable, plays an essential role in economic and social development, and is an increasingly topical issue. Over the last 150...

The evolution of the American fishing schooner from the 18th century to the last working and racing schooners of the mid-1930s is recounted in this book. The designers, builders and crews are discussed, and 137 plans of schooners show graphically the...

Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China is a monumental piece of scholarship which breaks new ground in presenting to the Western reader a detailed and coherent account of the development of science, technology and medicine in China from the...

Originally published in 1948, this book contains one man's story of working for the Telecommunications Research Establishment from 1934 until 1945. During this period, Rowe worked on many projects relating to air defence, particularly the development of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603861717Author James PartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Merchant BooksPublisher Merchant BooksWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 191mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307588692Author Kevin PoulsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789822373Author William TangFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Acorn BooksPublisher Acorn BooksWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm

This book tells the story of the scientific talent and technological prowess of two nations that joined forces to connect themselves with a communications cable that would change the world. In 1855 an American visionary named Cyrus West Field, who knew...

Dreamscapes of Modernity offers the first book-length treatment of sociotechnical imaginaries, a concept originated by Sheila Jasanoff and developed in close collaboration with Sang-Hyun Kim to describe how visions of scientific and technological...

Area 51's most important military aviation developments are profiled in an illustrated format. When most of us think of Area 51, we think of aliens, UFOs, and controversial government cover-ups. It's easy to forget that, since the mid-1950s, the United...

The fascinating story of how NASA sent humans to explore outer space, told through a treasure trove of documents from the NASA archivesAmong all the technological accomplishments of the last century, none has captured our imagination more deeply than the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947554767Author Stuart HoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

Genius Inventions gives readers an unprecedented insight into the events, people and histories behind technological and scientific developments that have helped shape modern civilization. Discover the inspiration for some of the most important moments in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539739Author Thomas S. MullaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd