This comprehensive book presents an analytical journey through the relationship between water and Latin American societies, offering an engineering perspective on historical water resource utilization.
Galileo never set foot on the Iberian Peninsula, yet, as Enrique Garcia Santo-Tomas unfolds in The Refracted Muse, the news of his work with telescopes brought him to surprising prominence-not just among Spaniards working in the developing science of optometry but among creative writers as well.
This book describes the life and times of fifty-three great British scientists and engineers - male and female inventive geniuses who changed the world, improving the lives of mankind, and propelling humanity forward.
This "e;very absorbing look at technological catastrophes and why they happen"e;explores systemic breakdowns behind disasters from Chernobyl to the Challenger(Booklist).
In the first cultural and political history of the Russian nuclear age, Paul Josephson describes the rise of nuclear physics in the USSR, the enthusiastic pursuit of military and peaceful nuclear programs through the Chernobyl disaster and the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the ongoing, self-proclaimed 'renaissance' of nuclear power in Russia in the 21st century.
The annual collections in the History of Technology series look at the history of technological discovery and change, exploring the relationship of technology to other aspects of life and showing how technological development is affected by the society in which it occurred.
This book examines the development of nuclear propulsion in the Royal Navy from the first proposal in 1946 to the start-up of the last core improvement for the first submarine reactor power plant PWR 1 in December 1974.
Mehrdeutige Zeichnungen, unverständliche Fachbegriffe und mangelhafte Übersetzungen - die Bedienungsanleitung ist Gegenstand von Klagen, Spott und Aggression.
I he most authoritative history of piracy, Frank Sherry's rich and colorful account reveals the rise and fall of the real "e;raiders and rebels"e; who terrorized the seas.
Die Verstrickung des Unternehmens in die verbrecherische Vernichtungspolitik des NS-Regimes ist erforscht, jetzt geht es erstmals um die Frühgeschichte von BMW.
A panoramic global history of the nineteenth centuryA monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition.
The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays.
Leading technologists, historians, and journalists reveal the stories behind the computer coding that touches all aspects of life-for better or worseFew of us give much thought to computer code or how it comes to be.
Die sieben Weltwunder wurden bereits in der Antike beschrieben, etwa zur selben Zeit wie die mechanische Rechenhilfe Abacus, ein Zählrahmen mit Holz- oder Glasperlen.
The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays.
Implosion is a focused study of the history and uses of high-reliability, solid-state electronics, military standards, and space systems that support our national security and defense.
This book offers a ready solution for those who wish to learn more about this fascinating part of our water history and makes accessible to the wider world the traditional knowledge gained from building and maintaining qanats for more than 2,500 years.
Walter Hehl eröffnet in seinem Buch einen neuen Blick auf die Person Galileo Galilei und dessen Leistungen – sowohl im Kontext der Wissenschaft im Zeitalter der Renaissance als auch aus Sicht der heutigen Physik.
Chapters "e;Turing and Free Will: A New Take on an Old Debate"e; and "e;Turing and the History of Computer Music"e; are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.
Die Beiträge des Bandes untersuchen das Geflecht aus Telegrammen, Postkarten und Briefen, Gedanken, Skizzen und Depeschen sowie Radio- und Fernsehsendungen.
This stimulating textbook presents a broad and accessible guide to the fundamentals of discrete mathematics, highlighting how the techniques may be applied to various exciting areas in computing.
This book systematically introduces readers to traditional Chinese handicrafts, which are original, distinct, and have had major impacts in China and around the globe.
The common question from the western point of view is of the sort; why did China lose its early leadership of productive technologies to Europe during the early modern period?
In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of dehumanization and oppression, a motley collection of college dropouts, hippies, and electronics fanatics were engaged in something much more subversive.
This handbook provides both an overview of state-of-the-art scholarship in philosophy of science, as well as a guide to new directions in the discipline.
Drawing on entirely new evidence, The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts 1580-1630 examines the history of English dramatic form and its relationship to the mathematics, technology, and early scientific thought during the Renaissance period.