Author: James NasmythPublisher: London : J. Murray
ISBN:
Category : Engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
James Nasmyth Engineer
Author: James NasmythPublisher: London : J. Murray
ISBN:
Category : Engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography
Author: James NasmythPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368252518
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
The Autobiography of James Nasmyth, Engineer
Author: James NasmythPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The moon : considered as a planet, a world, and a satellite
Author: James NasmythAn Engineer's Alphabet
Author: Henry PetroskiPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139505300
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Written by America's most famous engineering storyteller and educator, this abecedarium is one engineer's selection of thoughts, quotations, anecdotes, facts, trivia and arcana relating to the practice, history, culture and traditions of his profession. The entries reflect decades of reading, writing, talking and thinking about engineers and engineering, and range from brief essays to lists of great engineering achievements. This work is organized alphabetically and more like a dictionary than an encyclopedia. It is not intended to be read from first page to last, but rather to be dipped into, here and there, as the mood strikes the reader. In time, it is hoped, this book should become the source to which readers go first when they encounter a vague or obscure reference to the softer side of engineering.
James Nasmyth Engineer
Author: James NasmythPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Remaking the World
Author: Henry PetroskiPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375700242
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Science/Engineering "Petroski has an inquisitive mind, and he is a fine writer. . . . [He] takes us on a lively tour of engineers, their creations and their necessary turns of mind." --Los Angeles Times From the Ferris wheel to the integrated circuit, feats of engineering have changed our environment in countless ways, big and small. In Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering, Duke University's Henry Petroski focuses on the big: Malaysia's 1,482-foot Petronas Towers as well as the Panama Canal, a cut through the continental divide that required the excavation of 311 million cubic yards of earth. Remaking the World tells the stories behind the man-made wonders of the world, from squabbles over the naming of the Hoover Dam to the effects the Titanic disaster had on the engineering community of 1912. Here, too, are the stories of the personalities behind the wonders, from the jaunty Isambard Kingdom Brunel, designer of nineteenth-century transatlantic steamships, to Charles Steinmetz, oddball genius of the General Electric Company, whose office of preference was a battered twelve-foot canoe. Spirited and absorbing, Remaking the World is a celebration of the creative instinct and of the men and women whose inspirations have immeasurably improved our world. "Petroski [is] America's poet laureate of technology. . . . Remaking the World is another fine book." --Houston Chronicle "Remaking the World really is an adventure in engineering." --San Diego Union-Tribune
Industrial Biography
Author: Samuel SmilesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Coal, Steam and Ships
Author: Crosbie SmithPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107196728
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
An innovative account of the trials and tribulations of first-generation Victorian mail steamship lines, their passengers and the public.
Author: James Nasmyth