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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  • Stairway to Hell
    Peter Tertzakian
    How we get and use our energy is undergoing big change. What does it mean to you? This story and discussion guide from renowned energy pundit Peter Tertzakian will help you understand. Stairway to Hell is about corporate failure in the extreme.A cautionary tale of a once-bustling coal-mining hub turned ghost town, it examines the perils of relying on hope as a strategy in the f...
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    11,16 €

  • Nobody Tips A Scandiscope
    Peter Tertzakian
    How we get and use our energy is undergoing big change. What does it mean to you? This story and discussion guide from renowned energy pundit Peter Tertzakian will help you understand.Nobody Tips a Scandiscope explores the ethics of our energy choices and the trade-offs that result. This sobering story of a seven-year-old chimney sweep examines why the horrific practice of send...
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    11,16 €

  • Alfred Dickie’s Utility Bill
    Peter Tertzakian
    How we get and use our energy is undergoing big change. What does it mean to you? This story and discussion guide from renowned energy pundit Peter Tertzakian will help you understand.When Peter discovered a 1915 utility bill at an antique market, he knew he’d found a treasure — that simple scrap of paper marked the point at which we lost touch with where and how we get our ene...
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    11,19 €

  • German Science in the Age of Empire
    Moritz von Brescius
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    147,68 €

  • Machines of Loving Grace
    John Markoff
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    15,92 €

  • Space Race
    Deborah Cadbury
    One of the most exhilarating true adventures in history, the race into space was marked by courage, duplicity, political paranoia, astonishing technological feats, and unbelievable triumphs in the face of overwhelming adversity. It is the story of an unparalleled rivalry between superpowers and of the two remarkable men at the center of the conflict. On the American side was We...
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    16,85 €

  • Sextant
    David Barrie
    In the tradition of Dava Sobel’s Longitude comes this dramatic tale of invention and discovery--an eloquent elegy to one of the most important navigational instruments ever created, and to the daring mariners who used it to explore, conquer, and map the world.Barrie takes readers straight to the helm of some of history’s most important expeditions, interweaving these heroic tal...
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    16,00 €

  • Technology and Society
    Andrew Ede
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    118,84 €

  • Technology and Society
    Andrew Ede
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    53,79 €

  • My Inventions
    Nikola Tesla
    An Unabridged Edition with All Chapters and footnotes to include: My Early Life – How Tesla Conceived the Rotary Magnetic Field – The Discovery of the Tesla Coil and Transformer, Gramme Dynamo etc. ...
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    5,24 €

  • Physics and Psychics
    Richard Noakes
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    144,27 €

  • See You In Orbit? Our Dream Of Spaceflight
    Alan Ladwig
    Raise your hand if you want to fly in space! If so, you share a quest with millions of dreamers around the world who have patiently, and impatiently, anticipated Sunday afternoon drives down celestial freeways. Yet, since human space travel began, fewer than 560 professional astronauts, cosmonauts, taikonauts and a-half dozen millionaires have gazed down at Earth from inside a ...
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    19,82 €

  • Productivity Machines
    Corinna Schlombs
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    33,53 €

  • Power Trip
    Amanda Little
    After covering the environment and energy beat for more than a decade, columnist Amanda Little decided that the only way to fully understand America’s energy crisis was to travel into the heart of it. So she embarked on a daring, cross-country power trip to the most extreme and exciting frontiers of our energy landscape.In Power Trip, we accompany her to a deep-sea oil rig, the...
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    12,83 €

  • The Whipple Museum of the History of Science
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    144,57 €

  • The Politics of Chemistry
    Agustí Nieto-Galan
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    120,17 €

  • The Dean
    Robert B. Eckles / Robert BEckles
    More than 20,000 engineering students at Purdue University have been touched in some way by the ides or the warm personality of Andrey A. Potter, who served for 33 years as dean of the Schools of Engineering at Purdue, the world’s largest engineering institution. Awarded the honorary title of 'Dean of the Deans of Engineering Universities' in 1949 by his alma mater, MIT, Potter...
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    17,57 €

  • The Lighthouse and the Observatory
    Daniel A. Stolz / Daniel AStolz
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    47,65 €

  • Cultivating Commerce
    Sarah Easterby-Smith
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    38,19 €

  • Iron Men
    David Waller
    A nuts and bolts history of engineering enterprise in the first half of the nineteenth century, based on the life and work of Henry Maudslay and his followers ...
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    29,05 €

  • Science and the State
    John Gascoigne
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    108,10 €

  • The Royal Society and the Promotion of Science since 1960
    Peter Collins
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    38,93 €

  • The Final Orbit
    Philip Clark
    This book provides a unique opportunity to look inside the world of manned space flight tracking through the eyes of a man who was at the heart of it for over twenty years. It combines the personal touch of a memoir with the presentation of a wealth of technical information, which is not available anywhere else.What is presented here preserves history, and ensures that the rema...
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    61,91 €

  • The Final Orbit
    Philip Clark
    This book provides a unique opportunity to look inside the world of manned space flight tracking through the eyes of a man who was at the heart of it for over twenty years. It combines the personal touch of a memoir with the presentation of a wealth of technical information, which is not available anywhere else.What is presented here preserves history, and ensures that the rema...
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    50,42 €

  • The Development of Ink, Paper and Printing in Asia
    Berthold Laufer
    Essays on the origins of ink, paper and printing in Asia, tracing the early development of these technologies in China, Korea and Japan, and their later migration westward through South and Central Asia to Europe and America. The author, Berhold Laufer, a brilliant sinologist and linguist, quite correctly states that, without these developments, “there would have been no adequa...
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    18,01 €

  • When the BioMass Hits the Wind Turbine
    Jay Warmke
    Ask yourself:Do you feel that this generation, and the generations to come face a future of only limited resources – and even less hope?Is this the last generation that will have access to millions of years of stored energy in the form of fossil fuels?Do you feel like the corporations and politicians are lying about how much fossil fuels remain unused – and how much they will c...
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    17,32 €

  • Mechanical Appliances, Mechanical Movements and Novelties of Construction
    Gardner D. Hiscox / Gardner DHiscox
    2019 Reprint of 1910 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software.  This profusely illustrated edition contains nearly 1000 illustrations of all types of mechanical devices.  Chapters on:Transmission of Power; Measurement of Power, Springs; Generation of Power, Steam; Steam Power Appliances; Explosive Motor Power and Applian...
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    28,61 €

  • The Working Horse - A Guide on Equestrian Knowledge with Information on Shire and Carriage Horses
    J. Prince-Sheldon / Professor JPrince-Sheldon / Various / Various.
    'The Working Horse' is a fantastic guide to the horses of the British Isles as used for sport and work, including a wealth of equestrian knowledge on such subjects as breeding, breaking, ailments, history, and much more. Profusely illustrated with photographs and diagrams, this timeless volume is not to be missed by horse lovers and owners alike, and it would make for a fantast...
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    24,55 €

  • The New Stone Age - With Information on the People of this Time, Rudimentary Weapon Making, Building Methods Including Stonehenge, and Much More
    C. H. B. Quennell / CHBQuennell / Marjorie Quennell
    'The New Stone Age' is a fascinating volume exploring the Neolithic Age, a period in the development of human technology beginning about 15,200 BC in some parts of the Middle East, and later in other parts of the world. It ended between 4500 and 2000 BC. Detailed and profusely illustrated, this book is perfect for those with an interest in human development and those looking fo...
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    20,69 €

  • The Cambridge History of Science
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    192,72 €