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ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2204
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Books in Print
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2204
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2204
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Directory of Published Proceedings
Instrumentation Technology
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Books in Print Supplement
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1930
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1930
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The Publishers' Trade List Annual
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1402
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1402
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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1642
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Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1642
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Atmospheric Flight in the Twentieth Century
Author: P. Galison
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940114379X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
All technologies differ from one another. They are as varied as humanity's interaction with the physical world. Even people attempting to do the same thing produce multiple technologies. For example, John H. White discovered more than l 1000 patents in the 19th century for locomotive smokestacks. Yet all technologies are processes by which humans seek to control their physical environment and bend nature to their purposes. All technologies are alike. The tension between likeness and difference runs through this collection of papers. All focus on atmospheric flight, a twentieth-century phenomenon. But they approach the topic from different disciplinary perspectives. They ask disparate questions. And they work from distinct agendas. Collectively they help to explain what is different about aviation - how it differs from other technologies and how flight itself has varied from one time and place to another. The importance of this topic is manifest. Flight is one of the defining technologies of the twentieth century. Jay David Bolter argues in Turing's Man that certain technologies in certain ages have had the power not only to transform society but also to shape the way in which people understand their relationship with the physical world. "A defining technology," says Bolter, "resembles a magnifying glass, which collects and focuses seemingly disparate ideas in a culture into one bright, sometimes piercing ray." 2 Flight has done that for the twentieth century.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940114379X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
All technologies differ from one another. They are as varied as humanity's interaction with the physical world. Even people attempting to do the same thing produce multiple technologies. For example, John H. White discovered more than l 1000 patents in the 19th century for locomotive smokestacks. Yet all technologies are processes by which humans seek to control their physical environment and bend nature to their purposes. All technologies are alike. The tension between likeness and difference runs through this collection of papers. All focus on atmospheric flight, a twentieth-century phenomenon. But they approach the topic from different disciplinary perspectives. They ask disparate questions. And they work from distinct agendas. Collectively they help to explain what is different about aviation - how it differs from other technologies and how flight itself has varied from one time and place to another. The importance of this topic is manifest. Flight is one of the defining technologies of the twentieth century. Jay David Bolter argues in Turing's Man that certain technologies in certain ages have had the power not only to transform society but also to shape the way in which people understand their relationship with the physical world. "A defining technology," says Bolter, "resembles a magnifying glass, which collects and focuses seemingly disparate ideas in a culture into one bright, sometimes piercing ray." 2 Flight has done that for the twentieth century.
Paperbound Books in Print
New Technical Books
Author: New York Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Data Bases and Data Base Systems, Related to NASA's Aerospace Program
Author: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Scientific and Technical Information Branch
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Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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