Author: Richard Scheunemann HartenbergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmarks
Author: Richard Scheunemann HartenbergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Landmarks in Mechanical Engineering
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Machines, devices, and systems that have touched our lives, both intimately and for the public good, are often unheralded inventions that we take for granted or never even see. Fortunately, they claim landmark recognition by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, which now makes these engineering marvels accessible to teachers and students, travelers, researchers, and the curious. The 135 historic mechanical engineering landmarks in this book represent the accomplishments of mechanical engineers over the past 250 years - from the steam engine of Thomas Newcomen (1712), which launched the Industrial Revolution, to the Saturn V rocket (1967). This roster of landmarks tells a magnificent story of people and places and of innovation and discovery.
Mechanical Engineering: A Century of Progress
Author: Thomas H. Fehring, P.E.Publisher: NorCENergy Consultants, LLC
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
This book describes approximately 50 engineering accomplishments -- a number of which were subsequently designated historic mechanical engineering landmarks. This book can serve as an entry guide into the remarkable engineering achievements that occurred in the greater Milwaukee area from the late 1800s until the early 1900s, much of which centered around Milwaukee's Menomonee River Valley.
Catalog of National Historic Landmarks
Author: Astronomy and Astrophysics National Historic Landmark Theme Study
Author: Harry A. ButowskyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomical museums
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Hanford Remedial Action, Comprehensive Land-use Plan, Hanford Site in the Pasco Basin of the Columbia Plateau
Author: Chesapeake and Delaware Canal - Baltimore Harbor Connecting Channels (deepening) Delaware and Maryland
Author: Classic Oliver Tractors
Author: Sherry Schaefer and Jeff HackettPublisher:
ISBN: 161673163X
Category : Oliver tractors
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
James Oliver sold his first "chilled" plow in 1870--"chilled" because the cast iron was cooled quickly with water to harden the metal and strengthen the plow. And when Oliver Chilled Plow Works merged with the Hart-Parr Company in 1929, the might of capital, expertise, and engineering resources came together to create one of the most successful and revered small tractor manufacturers of all time. This book follows the Oliver tractor from its inception through its development over the years, until the last model rolled off the assembly line in 1976. A story of entrepreneurship and industry, of machinery and American know-how, this illustrated history captures the spirit of Oliver farm equipment as its tractors and crawlers, hay balers and threshers turned American farmland to gold. Throughout, brilliant color photographs and historical images bring the story of the Oliver tractor vividly and vibrantly to life.
A Companion to Cultural Resource Management
Author: Thomas F. KingPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444396056
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
A Companion to Cultural Resource Management is an essential guide to those wishing to gain a deeper understanding of CRM and heritage management. Expert contributors share their knowledge and illustrate CRM's practice and scope, as well as the core issues and realities in preserving cultural heritages worldwide. Edited by one of the world's leading experts in the field of cultural resource management, with contributions by a wide range of experts, including archaeologists, architectural historians, museum curators, historians, and representatives of affected groups Offers a broad view of cultural resource management that includes archaeological sites, cultural landscapes, historic structures, shipwrecks, scientific and technological sites and objects, as well as intangible resources such as language, religion, and cultural values Highlights the realities that face CRM practitioners "on the ground"
Air-Conditioning in Modern American Architecture, 1890–1970
Author: Joseph M. SiryPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271089253
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Air-Conditioning in Modern American Architecture, 1890–1970, documents how architects made environmental technologies into resources that helped shape their spatial and formal aesthetic. In doing so, it sheds important new light on the ways in which mechanical engineering has been assimilated into the culture of architecture as one facet of its broader modernist project. Tracing the development and architectural integration of air-conditioning from its origins in the late nineteenth century to the advent of the environmental movement in the early 1970s, Joseph M. Siry shows how the incorporation of mechanical systems into modernism’s discourse of functionality profoundly shaped the work of some of the movement’s leading architects, such as Dankmar Adler, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Gordon Bunshaft, and Louis Kahn. For them, the modernist ideal of functionality was incompletely realized if it did not wholly assimilate heating, cooling, ventilating, and artificial lighting. Bridging the history of technology and the history of architecture, Siry discusses air-conditioning’s technical and social history and provides case studies of buildings by the master architects who brought this technology into the conceptual and formal project of modernism. A monumental work by a renowned expert in American modernist architecture, this book asks us to see canonical modernist buildings through a mechanical engineering–oriented lens. It will be especially valuable to scholars and students of architecture, modernism, the history of technology, and American history.