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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  • Clocks and Watches
    George L. Overton / George LOverton
    This vintage book contains a complete guide to clocks and watches, with historical information, descriptions of their inner workings, details of notable horologists, and much more. This volume is highly recommended for amateur horologists and those with an interest in time, watches, and clocks. Contents include: 'Time', 'Primitive Methods of Time Measurement', 'The Pendulum and...
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    23,67 €

  • World Brain
    H. G. Wells
    World Brain is an article written by H. G. Wells and first contributed to the new 'Encyclopédie Française' in 1937. It explores the idea of a 'permanent world encyclopaedia' that would contain 'the whole human memory' and that would be 'a world synthesis of bibliography and documentation with the indexed archives of the world.' Fascinating and arguably prophetic reading, 'World...
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    29,21 €

  • 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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    38,08 €

  • Telegraph in America, 1832-1920
    David Hochfelder
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    40,77 €

  • An History of Marine Architecture
    John Charnock
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    69,99 €

  • An History of Marine Architecture
    John Charnock
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    72,60 €

  • An History of Marine Architecture
    John Charnock
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    70,03 €

  • Dreams of Iron and Steel
    Deborah Cadbury
    A world that had changed little from the Middle Ages was altered beyond recognition by the pioneering genius of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In Dreams of Iron and Steel, acclaimed historian Deborah Cadbury tells the heroic tale of the visionaries and ordinary workers who brought to life seven great wonders of the world that still have the power to awe and inspire us ...
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    13,35 €

  • Refrigeration Nation
    Jonathan Rees
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    40,84 €

  • Boston Firsts
    Lynda Morgenroth
    Boston Firsts is about everything (well, almost!) that happened first in Boston and changed life elsewhere: from the first lighthouse and public library to the first madam and ready-made suit. Boston-based journalist and essayist Lynda Morgenroth has written forty original essays on the city’s long history of innovation, from the colonial era to the present. These lively takes ...
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    19,91 €

  • The Handy Technology Answer Book
    James Bobick / Naomi Balaban
    Exploring technology and how it made-and continues to change-the modern world!Technology pervades our daily lives and modern society, and not just when it comes to computers and smart phones. Before there was the computer, there was the abacus. Before the smart phone, there was the telegraph and ball point pen. Electricity, penicillin, and the compass have all led to revolution...
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    38,98 €

  • Determination of Sex
    L. Doncaster / LDoncaster
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    37,68 €

  • Left Brains for the Right Stuff
    Hugh Blair-Smith
    What made the Space Race possible? What made it necessary? How close a race was it? And what did it achieve? The answers are connected in surprising ways. Left Brains for the Right Stuff briefly summarizes the history of three technologies-rockets, navigation, and computers-and recounts how they were woven into the rise and rivalry of superpowers in the twentieth century. Presi...
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    18,74 €

  • The Rise of Modern Science Explained
    H. Floris Cohen / HFloris Cohen
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    33,04 €

  • The World of Ham Radio, 1901-1950
    Richard A Bartlett / Richard A. Bartlett
    During the first fifty years of the twentieth century, ham radio went from being an experiment to virtually an art form. Because of the few government restrictions and the low monetary investment required, the concept of ham radio appealed to various people. More than just a simple hobby, however, ham radio required its operators to understand radio theory, be able to trace ...
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    44,17 €

  • Scientific Papers and Addresses of the Hon. Sir Charles A. Parsons
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    38,58 €

  • Impossible Engineering
    Chandra Mukerji
    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 Engineering takes an insightful and entertaining look at the mystery of its success as well as the canal’s surprising politic...
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    37,40 €

  • History of Dale Hollow Lake
    Darren Shell / Sheryl Shell
    Authors Darren Shell and Sheryl Shell tell of the demise of several small towns to facilitate the birth of the reservoir. They recount the history of the area through black and white and color photos, local folklore and newspaper articles. Readers are also treated to samples of Darren s Dale Hollow-based stories and shown the natural beauty of the area today. ...
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    36,52 €

  • Samuel F. B. Morse and the Dawn of the Age of Electricity
    George F Botjer / George F. Botjer / George FBotjer
    In this book, based on previously unpublished archival sources, George F. Botjer examines the importance of time and place in the launch of Samuel F. B. Morse's invention and his resulting fame and how the invention affected the inventor himself. ...
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    121,21 €

  • British Saws and Saw Makers from 1660
    Simon Barley
    Historians of the various tools trades have long wanted a work specifically on saws and this, the first, is an attempt to match the detail and scholarship of the best that cover planes, cutlery, spanners and measuring tools. The author is a frequent writer and lecturer on saws and the history of their manufacture, and is able to base his work on 15 years of original research an...
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    152,50 €

  • Modular Invariants
    D. E. Rutherford / DERutherford
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    26,44 €

  • Algebraic Equations
    G. B. Mathews / GBMathews / W. E. H. Berwick / WEHBerwick
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    26,18 €

  • The Fundamental Theorems of the Differential Calculus
    W. H. Young / WHYoung
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    26,27 €

  • Invariants of Quadratic Differential Forms
    J. Edmund Wright / JEdmund Wright
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    26,53 €

  • The Theory of Optical Instruments
    E. T. Whittaker / ETWhittaker
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    26,24 €

  • An Introduction to the Study of Integral Equations
    Maxime Bocher
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    26,21 €

  • Orders of Infinity
    G. H. Hardy / GHHardy
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    26,08 €

  • Linear Algebras
    L. E. Dickson / LEDickson
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    26,24 €

  • The Twenty-Seven Lines Upon the Cubic Surface
    Archibald Henderson
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    30,32 €

  • A Locus with 25920 Linear Self-Transformations
    H. F. Baker / HFBaker
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    21,68 €