Author: Alexander Melville Bell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 9
Book Description
English Visible Speech and Its Typography Elucidated
Author: Alexander Melville Bell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 9
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 9
Book Description
Power, Speed, and Form
Author: David P. Billington
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400849128
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Power, Speed, and Form is the first accessible account of the engineering behind eight breakthrough innovations that transformed American life from 1876 to 1939—the telephone, electric power, oil refining, the automobile, the airplane, radio, the long-span steel bridge, and building with reinforced concrete. Beginning with Thomas Edison's system to generate and distribute electric power, the authors explain the Bell telephone, the oil refining processes of William Burton and Eugene Houdry, Henry Ford's Model T car and the response by General Motors, the Wright brothers' airplane, radio innovations from Marconi to Armstrong, Othmar Ammann's George Washington Bridge, the reinforced concrete structures of John Eastwood and Anton Tedesko, and in the 1930s, the Chrysler Airflow car and the Douglas DC-3 airplane. These innovations used simple numerical ideas, which the Billingtons integrate with short narrative accounts of each breakthrough—a unique and effective way to introduce engineering and how engineers think. The book shows how the best engineering exemplifies efficiency, economy and, where possible, elegance. With Power, Speed, and Form, educators, first-year engineering students, liberal arts students, and general readers now have, for the first time in one volume, an accessible and readable history of engineering achievements that were vital to America's development and that are still the foundations of modern life.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400849128
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Power, Speed, and Form is the first accessible account of the engineering behind eight breakthrough innovations that transformed American life from 1876 to 1939—the telephone, electric power, oil refining, the automobile, the airplane, radio, the long-span steel bridge, and building with reinforced concrete. Beginning with Thomas Edison's system to generate and distribute electric power, the authors explain the Bell telephone, the oil refining processes of William Burton and Eugene Houdry, Henry Ford's Model T car and the response by General Motors, the Wright brothers' airplane, radio innovations from Marconi to Armstrong, Othmar Ammann's George Washington Bridge, the reinforced concrete structures of John Eastwood and Anton Tedesko, and in the 1930s, the Chrysler Airflow car and the Douglas DC-3 airplane. These innovations used simple numerical ideas, which the Billingtons integrate with short narrative accounts of each breakthrough—a unique and effective way to introduce engineering and how engineers think. The book shows how the best engineering exemplifies efficiency, economy and, where possible, elegance. With Power, Speed, and Form, educators, first-year engineering students, liberal arts students, and general readers now have, for the first time in one volume, an accessible and readable history of engineering achievements that were vital to America's development and that are still the foundations of modern life.
American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb
Association Review
American Annals of the Deaf
The Association Review
Transactions of the Philological Society
Author: Philological Society (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philology
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
List of members included in most vols.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philology
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
List of members included in most vols.
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
English Visible Speech and Its Typography Elucidated
Author: Alexander Melville Bell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Documents, Printing of
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Documents, Printing of
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description