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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  • Worlds of Natural History
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    71,56 €

  • The Lighthouse and the Observatory
    Daniel A. Stolz / Daniel AStolz
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    120,07 €

  • Atari Age
    Michael Z. Newman
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    22,51 €

  • Mr Bridges’ Enlightenment Machine
    Barb Drummond
    In 1733 Mr Henry Bridges announced his Microcosm or Little World was on display in Waltham Abbey then toured Britain and the American colonies. It was a giant four tiered machine which demonstrated his world at the time, with the finest art, technology, architecture, music and astronomy. Henry’s story shows the links between religion, magic, science and cabinets of curiosities....
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    20,25 €

  • Mr Bridges’ Enlightenment Machine
    Barb Drummond
    In 1733 Mr Henry Bridges of Waltham Abbey advertised his giant machine was on display at his house. It was called the Microcosm because it described his world with moving scened of his carpentry trade, of the wider world with travel, commerce and industry, a clock which displayed the heavens in real time, moving scenes of the muses, of orheus and the coming of spring, and the t...
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    29,02 €

  • Fascist Pigs
    Tiago Saraiva
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    28,39 €

  • Trees Above with Coal Below
    John Nuttall
    In the 19th century, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Kentucky were the the epicenters of coal mining in America Not only was coal needed for energy, but it was a key to the steelmaking process. Trees Above with Coal Below follows the immigration of the John Nuttall family to Pennsylvania and West Virginia, where they became pioneers in the coal industry, eventually establishin...
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    34,10 €

  • Trees Above with Coal Below
    John Nuttall
    In the 19th century, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Kentucky were the the epicenters of coal mining in America Not only was coal needed for energy, but it was a key to the steelmaking process. Trees Above with Coal Below follows the immigration of the John Nuttall family to Pennsylvania and West Virginia, where they became pioneers in the coal industry, eventually establishin...
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    48,12 €

  • Streamliner
    John Wall
    The true story of Raymond Loewy, whose designs are still celebrated for their unerring ability to advance American consumer taste.Born in Paris in 1893 and trained as an engineer, Raymond Loewy revolutionized twentieth-century American industrial design. Combining salesmanship and media savvy, he created bright, smooth, and colorful logos for major corporations that included Gr...
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    49,77 €

  • Coal, Steam and Ships
    Crosbie Smith
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    45,62 €

  • Big Machines
    Stephen J Kelley
    Why do some cryptographic systems fail and others succeed? Stephen Kelley’s new book, Big Machines, explores this fundamental question of cryptology by examining the history of three of the most renowned cipher systems of World War II - the German Enigma, the Japanese PURPLE, and the American SIGABA/ECM – to understand why the first two were broken by the allies and last remain...
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    23,02 €

  • How the Great Pyramid Was Built
    Craig B. Smith / Craig BSmith
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    26,99 €

  • Imperial Unknowns
    Cornel Zwierlein
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    47,25 €

  • Engineering Victory
    Thomas F Army
    Superior engineering skills among Union soldiers helped ensure victory in the Civil War.Engineering Victory brings a fresh approach to the question of why the North prevailed in the Civil War. Historian Thomas F. Army, Jr., identifies strength in engineering--not superior military strategy or industrial advantage--as the critical determining factor in the war’s outcome.Army fin...
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    33,75 €

  • Point to Point
    Paul M. Hawkins / Paul MHawkins
    In the whirlwind of the modern digital electronic revolution the days of analogue electronics, when international telecommunications was conducted without satellites or fibre optic cables, are often forgotten if not unimagined. Yet for a substantial part of the 20th century this was the case, and the global telephone and telegraph services were carried through the medium of lon...
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    18,54 €

  • Victorian Amateur Astronomer
    Allan Chapman
    This is the first book to look in detail at amateur astronomy in Victorian Britain. It deals with the technical issues that were active in Victorian astronomy, and reviews the problems of finance, patronage and the dissemination of scientific ideas, including the relationship between the amateur and the professional in Britain. It contains a wealth of previously unpublished bio...
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    68,70 €

  • 50 YEARS OF ENGINEERING IN SINGAPORE
    TAO SOON CHAM
    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 Institution of Engineers, Singapore, and World Scientific Publishing, to celebrate Singapore's 50th birthday, 50 Years of E...
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    70,70 €

  • 50 YEARS OF ENGINEERING IN SINGAPORE
    TAO SOON CHAM
    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 Institution of Engineers, Singapore, and World Scientific Publishing, to celebrate Singapore's 50th birthday, 50 Years of E...
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    30,24 €

  • The Victorian Amateur Astronomer
    Allan Chapman
    This is the first book to look in detail at amateur astronomy in Victorian Britain. It deals with the technical issues that were active in Victorian astronomy, and reviews the problems of finance, patronage and the dissemination of scientific ideas, including the relationship between the amateur and the professional in Britain. It contains a wealth of previously unpublished bio...
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    41,24 €

  • The Life of John Metcalf
    John Metcalf
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    31,32 €

  • Cultivating Commerce
    Sarah Easterby-Smith
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    119,22 €

  • How Not to Network a Nation
    Benjamin Peters
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    38,54 €

  • Connecting Jersey
    Graeme Marett
    Graeme Marett is a Chartered Engineer with over 50 years of experience in telecommunications having begun his career with the States of Jersey Telephone Department through R&D posts with international companies such as Phillips and AT&T and finally working with the local telecommunications regulator in Jersey.Have you ever wondered how the Channel Islands came to be connected t...
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    37,96 €

  • Astral Sciences in Early Imperial China
    Daniel Patrick Morgan
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    131,45 €

  • The Rise of Early Modern Science
    Toby E. Huff / Toby EHuff
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    41,20 €

  • The Draining of the Fens
    Eric H Ash
    How landowners, drainage projectors, and investors worked with the Crown to transform England’s waterlogged Fens.2017 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe draining of the Fens in eastern England was one of the largest engineering projects in seventeenth-century Europe. A series of Dutch and English 'projectors,' working over several decades and with the full support of the Crow...
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    71,46 €

  • Keeping up with the Egyptians
    James A. Kizer
    It's easy to see that building the Egyptian pyramids using a ramp would have been impractical and too labor intensive to make sense. And it's doubtful to think they were built by aliens or giant people, big cranes or flying machines. But how were they built? After years of pondering and running model after model through my mind, I have come up with a theory that makes sense, se...
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    13,46 €

  • Keeping up with the Egyptians
    James A. Kizer
    It’s easy to see that building the Egyptian pyramids using a ramp would have been impractical and too labor intensive to make sense. And it’s doubtful to think they were built by aliens or giant people, big cranes or flying machines. But how were they built? After years of pondering and running model after model through my mind, I have come up with a theory that makes sense, se...
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    15,45 €

  • Driving Modernity
    Massimo Moraglio
    On March 26th, 1923, in a formal ceremony, construction of the Milan-Alpine Lakes autostrada officially began, the preliminary step toward what would become the first European motorway. That Benito Mussolini himself participated in the festivities indicates just how important the project was to Italian Fascism. Driving Modernity recounts the twisting fortunes of the autostrada,...
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    184,46 €

  • The Cambridge History of Science
    Roy Porter
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    49,05 €