Author: Jane Marcet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Conversations on chemistry [by J. Marcet].
Conversations on chemistry [by J. Marcet]. By mrs. Marcet
Conversations on Chemistry
Author: Jane Haldimand Marcet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108016839
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Bright, humorous and engaging, Marcet's best-selling 1805 book was designed to introduce women to scientific ideas.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108016839
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Bright, humorous and engaging, Marcet's best-selling 1805 book was designed to introduce women to scientific ideas.
How Invention Begins
Author: John H. Lienhard
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199885567
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
In How Invention Begins, Lienhard reconciles the ends of invention with the individual leaps upon which they are built, illuminating the vast web of individual inspirations that lie behind whole technologies. He traces, for instance, the way in which thousands of people applied their combined inventive genius to airplanes, railroad engines, and automobiles. As he does so, it becomes clear that a collective desire, an upwelling of fascination, a spirit of the times--a Zeitgeist--laid its hold upon inventors. The thing they all sought to create was speed itself. Likewise, Lienhard shows that when we trace the astonishingly complex technology of printing books, we come at last to that which we desire from books--the knowledge, the learning, that they provide. Can we speak of speed or education as inventions? To do so, he concludes, is certainly no greater a stretch than it is to call radio or the telephone an "invention." Throughout this marvelous volume, Lienhard illuminates these webs of insight or inspiration by weaving a fabric of anecdote, history, and technical detail--all of which come together to provide a full and satisfying portrait of the true nature of invention.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199885567
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
In How Invention Begins, Lienhard reconciles the ends of invention with the individual leaps upon which they are built, illuminating the vast web of individual inspirations that lie behind whole technologies. He traces, for instance, the way in which thousands of people applied their combined inventive genius to airplanes, railroad engines, and automobiles. As he does so, it becomes clear that a collective desire, an upwelling of fascination, a spirit of the times--a Zeitgeist--laid its hold upon inventors. The thing they all sought to create was speed itself. Likewise, Lienhard shows that when we trace the astonishingly complex technology of printing books, we come at last to that which we desire from books--the knowledge, the learning, that they provide. Can we speak of speed or education as inventions? To do so, he concludes, is certainly no greater a stretch than it is to call radio or the telephone an "invention." Throughout this marvelous volume, Lienhard illuminates these webs of insight or inspiration by weaving a fabric of anecdote, history, and technical detail--all of which come together to provide a full and satisfying portrait of the true nature of invention.
Women in Chemistry
Author: Bureau of Vocational Information (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Uncommon Contexts: Encounters between Science and Literature, 1800-1914
Author: Ben Marsden
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822981874
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Britain in the long nineteenth century developed an increasing interest in science of all kinds. Whilst poets and novelists took inspiration from technical and scientific innovations, those directly engaged in these new disciplines relied on literary techniques to communicate their discoveries to a wider audience. The essays in this collection uncover this symbiotic relationship between literature and science, at the same time bridging the disciplinary gulf between the history of science and literary studies. Specific case studies include the engineering language used by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the role of physiology in the development of the sensation novel and how mass communication made people lonely.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822981874
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Britain in the long nineteenth century developed an increasing interest in science of all kinds. Whilst poets and novelists took inspiration from technical and scientific innovations, those directly engaged in these new disciplines relied on literary techniques to communicate their discoveries to a wider audience. The essays in this collection uncover this symbiotic relationship between literature and science, at the same time bridging the disciplinary gulf between the history of science and literary studies. Specific case studies include the engineering language used by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the role of physiology in the development of the sensation novel and how mass communication made people lonely.
Chemical Engineer
Chemical Age
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemistry, Technical
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemistry, Technical
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
The World's Greatest Fix
Author: G. J. Leigh
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195165829
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Finally, the value of industrial nitrate to help feed the current world population and the environmental consequences of nitrate use in terms of pollution in waters and human health implications are discussed."--Jacket.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195165829
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Finally, the value of industrial nitrate to help feed the current world population and the environmental consequences of nitrate use in terms of pollution in waters and human health implications are discussed."--Jacket.
Public Understanding of Science
Author: David Knight
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134625006
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134625006
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.