Author: United States. Census OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1336
Book Description
Census Reports Tenth Census: Report of the manufacturers of the United States at the Tenth Census (June 1, 1980), embracing general statistics and monographs on power used in manufacturers. The factory system. Interchangeable mechanism. Hardware, cutlery, etc. Iron and steel. Silk manufacture. Cotton manufacture. Woolen manufacture. Chemical products and salt. Glass manufacture
Author: United States. Census OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1336
Book Description
Census Reports Tenth Census: Report of the manufacturers of the United States at the Tenth Census (June 1, 1980), embracing general statistics and monographs on power used in manufacturers. The factory system. Interchangeable mechanism. Hardware, cutlery, etc. Iron and steel. Silk manufacture. Cotton manufacture. Woolen manufacture. Chemical products and salt. Glass manufacture
Author: United States. Census OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1342
Book Description
Singapore in Global History
Author: Derek Thiam Soon HengPublisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9048514371
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This important overview explores the connections between Singapore's past with historical developments worldwide until present day. The contributors analyse Singapore as a city-state seeking to provide an interdisciplinary perspective to the study of the global dimensions contributing to Singapore's growth. The book's global perspective demonstrates that many of the discussions of Singapore as a city-state have relevance and implications beyond Singapore to include Southeast Asia and the world. This vital volume should not be missed by economists, as well as those interested in imperial histor.
The Unbound Prometheus
Author: David S. LandesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521534024
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
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Xiongnu Archaeology
Author: Ursula BrossederPublisher:
ISBN: 9783936490145
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 653
Book Description
The Exploited Child
Author: Bernard SchlemmerPublisher: Zed Books
ISBN: 9781856497213
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
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A Century of Excellence in Measurements, Standards, and Technology
Author: David R. LidePublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780849312472
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Established by Congress in 1901, the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), now the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has a long and distinguished history as the custodian and disseminator of the United States' standards of physical measurement. Having reached its centennial anniversary, the NBS/NIST reflects on and celebrates its first century with this book describing some of its seminal contributions to science and technology. Within these pages are 102 vignettes that describe some of the Institute's classic publications. Each vignette relates the context in which the publication appeared, its impact on science, technology, and the general public, and brief details about the lives and work of the authors. The groundbreaking works depicted include: A breakthrough paper on laser-cooling of atoms below the Doppler limit, which led to the award of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Physics to William D. Phillips The official report on the development of the radio proximity fuse, one of the most important new weapons of World War II The 1932 paper reporting the discovery of deuterium in experiments that led to Harold Urey's1934 Nobel Prize for Chemistry A review of the development of the SEAC, the first digital computer to employ stored programs and the first to process images in digital form The first paper demonstrating that parity is not conserved in nuclear physics, a result that shattered a fundamental concept of theoretical physics and led to a Nobel Prize for T. D. Lee and C. Y. Yang "Observation of Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Dilute Atomic Vapor," a 1995 paper that has already opened vast new areas of research A landmark contribution to the field of protein crystallography by Wlodawer and coworkers on the use of joint x-ray and neutron diffraction to determine the structure of proteins
Factories in the Field
Author: Carey McWilliamsPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520925181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
This book was the first broad exposé of the social and environmental damage inflicted by the growth of corporate agriculture in California. Factories in the Field—together with the work of Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and John Steinbeck—dramatizes the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to find work in California agriculture. McWilliams starts with the scandals of the Spanish land grant purchases, and continues on to examine the experience of the various ethnic groups that have provided labor for California's agricultural industry—Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Filipinos, Armenians—the strikes, and the efforts to organize labor unions
Left Out
Author: Judith Stepan-NorrisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521798402
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Human Accomplishment
Author: Charles MurrayPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061745677
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
A sweeping cultural survey reminiscent of Barzun's From Dawn to Decadence. "At irregular times and in scattered settings, human beings have achieved great things. Human Accomplishment is about those great things, falling in the domains known as the arts and sciences, and the people who did them.' So begins Charles Murray's unique account of human excellence, from the age of Homer to our own time. Employing techniques that historians have developed over the last century but that have rarely been applied to books written for the general public, Murray compiles inventories of the people who have been essential to the stories of literature, music, art, philosophy, and the sciences—a total of 4,002 men and women from around the world, ranked according to their eminence. The heart of Human Accomplishment is a series of enthralling descriptive chapters: on the giants in the arts and what sets them apart from the merely great; on the differences between great achievement in the arts and in the sciences; on the meta-inventions, 14 crucial leaps in human capacity to create great art and science; and on the patterns and trajectories of accomplishment across time and geography. Straightforwardly and undogmatically, Charles Murray takes on some controversial questions. Why has accomplishment been so concentrated in Europe? Among men? Since 1400? He presents evidence that the rate of great accomplishment has been declining in the last century, asks what it means, and offers a rich framework for thinking about the conditions under which the human spirit has expressed itself most gloriously. Eye-opening and humbling, Human Accomplishment is a fascinating work that describes what humans at their best can achieve, provides tools for exploring its wellsprings, and celebrates the continuing common quest of humans everywhere to discover truths, create beauty, and apprehend the good.