Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes

Each year, thousands of tourists visit Mount Mitchell, the most prominent feature of North Carolinas Black Mountain range and the highest peak in the eastern United States.

Proteins are an integral part of molecular and cellular structure and function and are probably the most purified type of biological molecule.

From the second half of the 1940s, when postwar reconstruction began in Italy, there were three notable driving forces of environmental change: the uncontrollable process of urban drift, fueled by considerable migratory flows from the countryside and southern regions toward the cities where large-scale productive activities were beginning to amass; unruly industrial development, which was tolerated since it was seen as the necessary tribute to be paid to progress and modernization; and mass consumption.

The history of the United States of America is also the history of the energy sector.

The year 2005 marked the centennial of the founding of the United States Forest Service (USFS).

On an August night in 1893, the deadliest hurricane in South Carolina history struck the Lowcountry, killing thousandsalmost all African American.

Technocratic Visions examines the context and societal consequences of technologies, technocratic governance, and development in Mexico, home of the first professional engineering school in the Americas.

Finalist, 2023 Turku Book AwardIn 1972, the US Navy installed a base for nuclear submarines in the Archipelago of La Maddalena off the northeastern shore of Sardinia, Italy.

Throughout the nineteenth century, cholera was a global scourge against human populations.

In an era of transatlantic migration, Germans were fascinated by the myth of the frontier.

Like most cities, Poland's Krakow developed around and because of its favorable geography.

The rise of industrial capitalism in the nineteenth century forged a new ecological order in North American and Western European states, radically transforming the environment through science and technology in the name of human progress.

The hot-air balloon, invented by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783, launched for the second time just days before the Treaty of Paris would end the American Revolutionary War.

Despite its popular association today with magic, astrology was once a complex and sophisticated practice, grounded in technical training provided by a university education.

The West Virginia mine war of 1920-21, a major civil insurrection of unusual brutality on both sides, even by the standards of the coal fields, involved thousands of union and nonunion miners, state and private police, militia, and federal troops.

With ransomware attacks predicted every two seconds by 2031 and 91% of successful cyberattacks beginning with social engineering, organizations face existential threats that demand AI-powered defenses integrating both technical sophistication and human behavioral insights.

Field Life examines the practice of science in the field in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains of the American West between the 1860s and the 1910s, when the railroad was the dominant form of long-distance transportation.

From the late nineteenth century onwards religion gave way to science as the dominant force in society.

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From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, new anatomical investigations of the brain and the nervous system, together with a renewed interest in comparative anatomy, allowed doctors and philosophers to ground their theories on sense perception, the emergence of human intelligence, and the soul/body relationship in modern science.

By the mid-nineteenth century, efforts to modernize and industrialize Mexico City had the unintended consequence of exponentially increasing the risk of fire while also breeding a culture of fear.

Between 1870 and 1940, life expectancy in the United States skyrocketed while the percentage of senior citizens age sixty-five and older more than doubled-a phenomenon owed largely to innovations in medicine and public health.

When They Hid the Fire examines the American social perceptions of electricity as an energy technology that were adopted between the mid-nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth centuries.

Long before scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996, American embryologist and aspiring cancer researcher Robert Briggs successfully developed the technique of nuclear transplantation using frogs in 1952.

As recently as the 1880s, most American cities had no effective means of collecting and removing the mountains of garbage, refuse, and manure-over a thousand tons a day in New York City alone-that clogged streets and overwhelmed the senses of residents.

In the Victorian era, James Watt became an iconic engineer, but in his own time he was also an influential chemist.

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The age of European high imperialism was characterized by the movement of plants and animals on a historically unprecedented scale.

This is a history of precious-metals extractivism as lived in Cerro de San Pedro, a small gold- and silver-mining district in Mexico.

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Charleston, South Carolina, today enjoys a reputation as a destination city for cultural and heritage tourism.

In the US we are nearing four million road deaths since we began counting them in 1899.

In the US we are nearing four million road deaths since we began counting them in 1899.

For more than fifty years, we have been waging, but not winning, the war on cancer.

For more than fifty years, we have been waging, but not winning, the war on cancer.

In 2000, a transformative climate-driven ';megadrought' swept over the Colorado River watershed.

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Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Ingenieurwissenschaften - Maschinenbau, Note: 1,0, AKAD University, ehem.

Contemporary high-frequency engineering design heavily relies on full-wave electromagnetic (EM) analysis.

In 1860 farmers accounted for 60 percent of the American workforce; in 1910, 30.

Farm women of the twentieth-century South have been portrayed as oppressed, worn out, and isolated.

Celebrating the beauty, diversity, and significance of the states natural landscapes, Wild North Carolina provides an engaging, beautifully illustrated introduction to North Carolinas interconnected webs of plant and animal life.

For more than thirty years, the architectural research department at Colonial Williamsburg has engaged in comprehensive study of early buildings, landscapes, and social history in the Chesapeake region.

Wear is one of the main reasons mechanical components and materials become inoperable, rendering enormous costs to society over time.

Picture a beautiful, green neighborhood where most of your needs could be met by walking, rolling, or accessing transit.

This comprehensive book addresses both the principles and practicalities of petroleum unitization by mapping out the evolution of and rationale for unitization in legislation and by providing much-needed guidance on the formulation of a legislative framework for effective regulatory governance of the unitization process.

In the late 1990s, John Baker was known as a purveyor of quality rare and old wines.

A key challenge in science and engineering is to provide a quantitative description of the systems under investigation, leveraging the noisy data collected.

The prime focus of the book is to determine the mechanism, extent, and efficiency of biodegradation processes, as it is necessary to know the composition of the original crude oil or crude oil product.