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English
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The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age, to explore the single component crucial to advancement, precision, in a superb history that is both an homage to and a warning for our future.
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Language
English
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Description
Engineering is where human knowledge meets real-world problems—and solves them. It's the source of some of our greatest inventions, from the catapult to the jet engine. Marshall Brain, creator of the How Stuff Works series and a professor at the Engineering Entrepreneurs Program at NCSU, provides a detailed look at 250 milestones in the discipline. He covers the various areas, including chemical, aerospace, and computer engineering, from
...3) The gun
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
481 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In a tour de force, a prize-winning "New York Times" reporter traces the invention and mass distribution of the assault rifle, and its effects on war.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Beginning with Ben Franklin's kite and leading all the way to the current TV hit "American Idol, " Hitt argues that the nation's love of self-invented obsessives has always driven the country to rediscover the true heart of the American dream.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows the development of roads in the United States--and the new forms of transportation that used them--from the National Highway of 1805 through railroads and paved roads for bicycles and automobiles to the interstate system.
Author
Language
English
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Description
In this new paperback edition of the classic bestseller, you'll be taken on a hilarious, fast-paced ride through the history of ideas. Author Scott Berkun will show you how to transcend the false stories that many business experts, scientists, and much of pop culture foolishly use to guide their thinking about how ideas change the world. With four new chapters on putting the ideas in the book to work, updated references and over 50 corrections and...
14) First air war
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When World War I began in 1914, the air forces of the opposing nations consisted of handfuls of rickety biplanes. By the war's end, the blueprint of the modern fighter aircraft had emerged. To trace the story of this astonishingly rapid technological revolution, NOVA takes viewers inside The Vintage Aviator, a team of New Zealand-based aviation buffs dedicated to bringing back classic World War One fighters.
Author
Publisher
MIT Sloan Management Review
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
[First edition].
Physical Desc
1 online resource (6 pages)
Language
English
Description
Throughout history, the advantages and costs of technological innovations have been unevenly distributed between the powerful and the rest of society, assert economists Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson in their new book, Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity. In a Q&A, they discuss what’s wrong with today’s approach to automation, why machine usefulness is more important than machine intelligence,...
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Scriber hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 342 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Description:The Guardian columnist and award-winning author of Trigger Happy presents intellectual arguments that innovation and progress are often achieved by revisiting and retooling past ideas, citing key historical examples in business, philosophy and science.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 258 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Some of humanity's mightiest engineering achievements are small in scale--and, without them, the complex machinery on which our modern world runs would not exist. In Nuts and Bolts, structural engineer Roma Agrawal examines seven of these extraordinary elements: the nail, the wheel, the spring, the magnet, the lens, the string, and the pump. Tracing the evolution from Egyptian nails to modern skyscrapers, and Neanderthal string to musical instruments,...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
437 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Framed as a manual for a stranded time traveler, North's witty, illustrated pop-science guide begins with a series of questions in flowchart-form to help users figure out where in time they've landed: Are there plants? Are there dinosaurs? Has the Big Bang happened yet? If the traveler in question is lucky enough to have landed some 200,000 years ago, North cheerfully announces, "You could actually be the most influential person in history." Start...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 5.5 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of how humans changed the world forever, told through six iconic objects. They are familiar, yet hidden within them are thousands of years of thought, struggle, sacrifice, determination, and insight. There are surprising accidents, colorful characters, and moments of joy or despair stretching back in time, often to the beginning of human civilization itself. The result is a journey through human history. It reveals how science, invention,...
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