History of engineering and technology

Before 1930, the domestic market for electrical appliances was segmented, but New Deal policies and programs created a true mass market, reshaping the electrical and housing markets and guiding them toward mandated social goals.

Before 1930, the domestic market for electrical appliances was segmented, but New Deal policies and programs created a true mass market, reshaping the electrical and housing markets and guiding them toward mandated social goals.

This book offers a description of the evolution of cams and their uses from the Middle Ages to the present day, highlighting their contribution to the development of technology.

Over the past thirty years, the world's patent systems have experienced pressure from civil society like never before.

In 2013, a Dutch scientist unveiled the world's first laboratory-created hamburger.

This book presents critical evaluations of various historical sources and their impact on technological development.

This book offers a description of the evolution of cams and their uses from the Middle Ages to the present day, highlighting their contribution to the development of technology.

This book presents critical evaluations of various historical sources and their impact on technological development.

In 2013, a Dutch scientist unveiled the world's first laboratory-created hamburger.

It is progress that guarantees existence.

Henry Petroski demuestra en este ensayo que el avance tecnológico y la mejora en el diseño es más una reacción ante la frustración por algo que no funciona bien, que una forma de responder a nuevas necesidades.

Being a dad is a 365-day job.

This is a retrospective on the five plus years I spent working at a high level in the North Carolina state government, my service as chairman of a congressionally established committee responsible for the development of a set of national forest planning regulations, and my thirteen years of service in North Carolinas coastal management commission.

In MY WATERY SELF: AN AQUATIC MEMOIR, author/scientist Stephen Spotte traces a fascinating trail through a life that began in West Virgina coal camps, drifted through reckless bohemian times of countercultural indulgence in Beach Haven, New Jersey, and led to a career as a highly-respected marine biologist.

The Nature of Technology will change the way you think about this fundamental subject forever.

Discover the history behind the amazing machines that power our world, and the inventors that created them, in this mini children's encyclopedia to the story of inventions.

It is November 6, 1920, in Chilean Patagonia when Oriana Josseau is born into a lively family with two grandparents, two parents, and sixteen young aunts and uncles, most within easy reach of her robust cries.

This book is an inspirational, humorous description of my life from a hard core juvenile delinquent to a top executive in a major corporation.

From Paul Kennedy, author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, one of the most acclaimed history books of recent decades, Engineers of Victory is a new account of how the tide was turned against the Nazis by the Allies in the Second World War.

Due to the number of colour illustrations, this ebook is best viewed on a tablet.

Ask consumers and users what names they associate with the multibillion dollar personal computer market, and they will answer IBM, Apple, Tandy, or Lotus.

The Dive is a thrilling narrative nonfiction in the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Apollo 13.

Ananda Kiamsha Madelyn Leeke became a pioneer in the digital universe twenty-seven years ago, when she logged in to the LexisNexis research service as a first-year law student at Howard University School of Law.

The author compares five primitive life forms from the Burgess Shale of over 500,000,000 years ago to five new technologies invented or developed in the first decade of the twentieth century in terms of their development and importance both in the past and for the future.

Albert Lamarre never imagined that one day he would stare down the barrel of a shotgun pointed at him by a Texas ranchers daughter.

Edward O.

This book is a true adventure story, a lovestory, and a tale that has some meaning.

Now retired, author Dr.

Programmed by Deception Eye of the Remote Series II is a sequel to Ms.

Ernest Baldini started out as a bullied kid in Detroit, and he could have easily slipped into a life of mediocrity.

However well our boys do in the 2014 World Cup, we can be sure that English pride will be riding higher than ever.

This aviation handbook is intended to provide the reader with a quick reference to identify military support aircraft flown by the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Royal Canadian Navy and the Canadian Army during the Second World War.