Catálogo de libros: Historia de la tecnología y la ingeniería

687 Catálogo de libros: Historia de la tecnología y la ingeniería

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  • 20 West
    Steve Ford
    Discover the evolution of aviation through six transformative decades in ’20 West,’ a captivating book where aerospace engineering and human emotion converge. Immerse yourself in the rich tapestry of aviation history, pilot experiences, and aircraft development that transcends mere memoir.Dive into a riveting journey that covers everything from propeller-driven transport planes...
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    15,87 €

  • Worlds Within Worlds (Deseret Alphabet edition)
    Isaac Asimov
    In addition to being one of the world’s greatest science fiction writers, Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) was highly regarded as an indefatigable popularizer of science. In his lifetime, Asimov wrote or edited over approximately five hundred books of science fiction, mysteries, literary annotations, history, various sciences and more. He died of AIDS contracted during open-heart surge...
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    15,02 €

  • Knowledge, Text and Practice in Ancient Technical Writing
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    44,13 €

  • A Widening Sphere
    Philip N. Alexander / Philip NAlexander
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    30,80 €

  • Papal Bull
    Margaret Meserve
    Printing thrived after it came to Rome in the 1460s. Renaissance scholars, poets, and pilgrims in the Eternal City formed a ready market for mass-produced books. But Rome was also a capital city--seat of the Renaissance papacy, home to its bureaucracy, and a hub of international diplomacy--and print played a role in these circles, too. In Papal Bull, Margaret Meserve uncovers a...
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    75,47 €

  • Delta of Power
    Alex Roland
    Does the Military-Industrial Complex as we understand it still exist? If so, how has it changed since the end of the Cold War? First named by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address, the Military-Industrial Complex, originally an exclusively American phenomenon of the Cold War, was tailored to develop and produce military technologies equal to the existential th...
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    36,69 €

  • THE THOMPSON SUBMACHINE GUN
    Anon
    One of a series of Second World War booklets on weapons intended for the training of recruits, this treatise is dedicated to the venerable military type Thompson .45 calibre submachine gun. This model (M1928) had provisions for box and drum magazines. It had a Cutts compensator, cooling fins on the barrel, employed a delayed blowback action and its charging handle was on the to...
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    13,25 €

  • Chernobyl
    Edward A. Warman / Edward AWarman
    Chernobyl: The Rest of the StoryThis book is intended to serve as a fact-based sourcebook on the Chernobyl disaster. It covers the accident, its causes and effects - especially the radiological consequences, including the health effects, and the international assistance to enclose the radioactive remains in a safe state. Above all else, it provides reliable information and data...
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    24,87 €

  • Technological Internationalism and World Order
    Waqar H. Zaidi / Waqar HZaidi
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    120,15 €

  • An archaeology of innovation
    Catherine J. Frieman
    This monograph takes a unique archaeological approach to the investigation of innovation and the innovation process. Case studies span the breadth of human history, from our earliest hominin ancestors to the contemporary world. The emphasis is on the social context and temporality of invention, adoption, creativity and resistance. ...
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    157,51 €

  • Engineering Rules
    Craig N Murphy / Joanne Yates
    Private, voluntary standards shape almost everything we use, from screw threads to shipping containers to e-readers. They have been critical to every major change in the world economy for more than a century, including the rise of global manufacturing and the ubiquity of the internet. In Engineering Rules, JoAnne Yates and Craig N. Murphy trace the standard-setting system’s evo...
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    53,13 €

  • Sovereign Skies
    Sean Seyer
    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 air age on December 17, 1903, the sky was an unregulated frontier. As increasing numbers of aircraft threatened public safety i...
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    84,96 €

  • DEVELOPMENT HISTORY OF ANCIENT CHINESE GLASS TECHNOLOGY
    HONG LI & LISONG HOU FUXI GAN / Hong Li / Lisong Hou
    Worldwide research on ancient glass began in the early 20th century. A consensus has been reached in the community of Archaeology that the first manmade or synthetic glasses, based on archaeological findings, originated in the Middle East during the 5000-3000’s BC. By contrast, the manufacturing technology of pottery and ceramics were well developed in ancient China. The earlie...
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    244,89 €

  • The Origins of Modern Science
    Ofer Gal
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    119,68 €

  • German Science in the Age of Empire
    Moritz von Brescius
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    44,50 €

  • Feedback Loops
    This volume explores the arrangement of science, technology, society, and education. Using the concept of "feedback loop", this book processes subjects dear to the work of Joseph C. Pitt: technology as humanity at work, pragmatism, Sicilian realism, pragmatist pedagogy, instrumentation in science, and more. ...
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    136,08 €

  • A Sprint to the Finish
    Russell McGuire
    For over a century Sprint was an innovative leader in the telecommunications industry. From its humble beginnings stringing wires to homes and businesses in Abilene, Kansas, to helping build the global Internet, and stockpiling the richest porfolio of spectrum for fifth-generation (5G) wireless services, Sprint had an outsized impact on how everyday citizens and the world’s lar...
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    7,32 €

  • On Time
    Kenneth Mondschein
    Western culture has been obsessed with regulating society by the precise, accurate measurement of time since the Middle Ages. In On Time, Ken Mondschein explores the paired development of concepts and technologies of timekeeping with human thought. Without clocks, he argues, the modern world as we know it would not exist. From the astronomical timekeeping of the ancient world t...
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    40,81 €

  • My Life On The Road
    Dan Leone
    My life on the road is a personal story providing a glimpse into what it was like to be part of a family business in the construction industry. The challenges faced moving equipment, building roads, and living a life as we moved from project to project. I was lucky to have these experiences, and I hope you can take something with you as you read my story and My Life On The Ro...
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    15,93 €

  • Measuring difference, numbering normal
    Coreen McGuire
    This book argues that health measurements are given artificial authority if they are particularly amenable to calculability and easy measurement, and shows that problems often coalesce around disabilities that do not lend themselves to easy quantification. ...
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    42,97 €

  • Building the French empire, 1600-1800
    Benjamin Steiner
    How did the French rule their colonial overseas possessions dispersed all over the world? This book focuses on local populations and workers in the colonies. Indigenous experts, slaves or indentured servants as well as French engineers and naval officers contributed to the building of the foundation of the French empire. ...
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    157,60 €

  • Machine Sensation
    Tessa Leach
    Emphasising the alien qualities of anthropomorphic technologies, Machine Sensation makes a conscious effort to increase rather than decrease the tension between nonhuman and human experience. In a series of rigorously executed cases studies, including natural user interfaces, artificial intelligence as well as sex robots, Leach shows how object-oriented ontology enables one to ...
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    22,16 €

  • The Red Taylorist
    Diana Kelly
    This biography traces the adult life, works and relationships of the Taylorist, Walter Polakov, focusing on his socialist scientific management, his ideals and dreams, and how these were constrained by conventionality in the USA in the first half of the twentieth century. ...
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    143,05 €

  • Physics and Psychics
    Richard Noakes
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    38,64 €

  • On Cold Iron
    Dan Levert
    When engineering students in Canada are soon to graduate, the solemn 'Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer,' penned by none other than Rudyard Kipling, charges them with their Obligation to high standards, humility, and ethics. Each budding engineer then receives an Iron Ring to be worn on the small finger of the working hand as a reminder throughout their career. Through the s...
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    28,14 €

  • Conquering the Electron
    Derek Cheung / Eric Brach
    Conquering the Electron offers readers a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of friction and magnetism and ending with the creation of the smart phone and the iPad. ...
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    16,98 €

  • The Bipoint in the Settlement of North America
    Wm Jack Hranicky
    This 378 page archaeological publication covers the development, definition, classification, and world-wide deployment of the lithic bipoint and includes numerous photographs, drawings, and maps. The bipoint is a legacy implement from the Old World that is found through time/space all over America. It was brought into the U.S. on both coasts; the Pacific Coast introduction was ...
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    60,78 €

  • Apollo 50 Anniversary
    Erwin Kostomai
    This is a book on the flights to the Moon with the manned crew of Apollo and a description of the references to previous and present conspiracy theorists. It covers content that includes all the facts from the idea to the final execution of the flight. The technical facts are described just insofar as necessary for the basic understanding of the project, followed by the extensi...
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    14,93 €

  • A History of Street Networks
    Laurence Aurbach
    Roadway networks are the basic frameworks of cities. They endure for centuries, influencing the ways that cities operate and their residents’ quality of life. A History of Street Networks explores the origins and institutionalization of modern roadway networks, particularly the networks of urban sprawl. The book surveys an international history of these powerful yet unheralded ...
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    23,93 €

  • The Investor Visit and Other Stories
    Peter Tertzakian
    Renowned energy pundit and bestselling author Peter Tertzakian brings our energy history to life in this collection of 10 short stories that tell our energy story in a whole new way.A savvy investor pays a visit to an obsolete oil rig. A tanker captain wonders about a country’s lack of energy security. A young boy’s tragic plight exposes the complexities of energy ethics and th...
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    20,11 €


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