Author: Dwight GoddardPublisher:
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Category : Inventors
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
A Short Story of James Nasmyth
Author: Dwight GoddardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inventors
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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James Nasmyth and the Bridgewater Foundry
Author: John Anthony CantrellPublisher: Manchester [Greater Manchester] ; Dover, N.H., USA : Published for the Chetham Society by Manchester University Press
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Men of Invention and Industry
Author: Samuel SmilesPublisher:
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Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
A Short Story of Thomas Newcomen
Author: Dwight GoddardPublisher:
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Category : Steam engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Cranford & Selected Short Stories
Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellPublisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781840224511
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Contains six of her finest stories that have been selected to demonstrate the variety and accomplishment of her shorter fiction, and to trace the development of her art.
Marine Engineering Log
Author: Moon
Author: Bernd BrunnerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300168705
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Using werewolves and Wernher von Braun, Stonehenge and the sex lives of sea corals, aboriginal myths, and an Anglican bishop in this new book, the author weaves variegated information into a glimpse of Earth's closest celestial neighbor, whose mere presence inspires us to wonder what might be out there. Going beyond the discoveries of contemporary science, he presents a cultural assessment of our complex relationship with Earth's lifeless, rocky satellite. As well as offering an engaging perspective on such age old questions as "What would Earth be like without the moon?" he surveys the moon's mythical and religious significance and provokes existential soul searching through a lunar lens, inquiring, "Forty years ago, the first man put his footprint on the moon. Will we continue to use it as the screen onto which we cast our hopes and fears?" Drawing on materials from different cultures and epochs, he walks readers down a moonlit path illuminated by more than seventy-five vintage photographs and illustrations. From scientific discussions of the moon's origins and its chronobiological effects on the mating and feeding habits of animals to an illuminating interpretation of Bishop Francis Godwin's 1638 novel The Man in the Moone, his interdisciplinary explorations recast a familiar object in an original light.
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