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Author: Gilbert Ruley Smith P.E. Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: 1644622580 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 135
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In my teenage years, I attended the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (BPI) a prestigious upper level high school with a curriculum designed for engineers. Upon graduation, I decided to take a job at the school (BPI) as shop assistant/electricity lab assistant, thereby making me a member of the staff. Meanwhile, at the Johns Hopkins University Physics Department, Bill Sinton who was a graduate student of Professor John Strong at the time knew that Dr Strong was looking for an electronics technician that was familiar with Optics. It was well known that I was an amateur astronomer and assisted the school staff in teaching Astronomy which helped me qualify and be hired for the position. I worked for Dr Strong for the next 13 years and attended Johns Hopkins night school. Gilbert Ruley Smith, PE 27
Author: Gilbert Ruley Smith P.E. Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: 1644622580 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 135
Book Description
In my teenage years, I attended the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (BPI) a prestigious upper level high school with a curriculum designed for engineers. Upon graduation, I decided to take a job at the school (BPI) as shop assistant/electricity lab assistant, thereby making me a member of the staff. Meanwhile, at the Johns Hopkins University Physics Department, Bill Sinton who was a graduate student of Professor John Strong at the time knew that Dr Strong was looking for an electronics technician that was familiar with Optics. It was well known that I was an amateur astronomer and assisted the school staff in teaching Astronomy which helped me qualify and be hired for the position. I worked for Dr Strong for the next 13 years and attended Johns Hopkins night school. Gilbert Ruley Smith, PE 27
Author: Henry Petroski Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 0375700242 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 0
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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
Author: Brett Schilke Publisher: Rockport Publishers ISBN: 1631598392 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 147
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Design Genius, Jr.: Adventures in Engineering for Kids explores the future through problem solving, design thinking, and engineering in a science-fact world that most parents and kids don’t yet know exists. This book invites kids to take charge of the world they wish to create by designing inventions and solutions to challenges faced in an imaginary City X, the first human settlement on another planet. This adventure takes readers on an epic journey: humans are leaving Earth, arriving at a new planet, and creating the first settlement there, City X. It’s a journey of historic proportions, to a fledgling city on a distant planet, where humanity has a chance to start fresh and design a future that works for everyone. In settling another planet, humans discover a host of challenges, much like those faced on Earth: Challenges related to issues of energy, environment, transportation, security, food, safety, and health. Empowered by design thinking and advanced technology, their problems are to be solved by a vast team of young designers on Earth (your children!). With this book, you and yours will be able to develop the tools to explore, understand, imagine, create, and share your own irresistible futures through accessible real-world activities and awesome ideations. Without limits, what can kids create?
Author: Charles Felton Scott Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780656886944 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 26
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Excerpt from The Engineer of the Twentieth Century: Response to a Toast at the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Engineers' Club of Philadelphia, Held at Union League Saturday, Dec; 6, 1902 Electrical work is seldom inde pendent. It does not stand alone, complete in itself. Electricity is usually an instrument, a means to an end. It is not energy de rived at first hand from electricity which enables the car to move and the crane to lift a weight. It is power derived from the engine, which happily can be transmitted by electric wires better than by shafts or ropes or belts. It is because electricity is primarily an agent, a means, that its applications have been so diversified, so ex tensive, and so far reaching in their effects. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Leo Frankowski Publisher: Del Rey ISBN: 9780345327628 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 259
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Accidentally plunged back in time to Poland in the year 1231, Conrad Schwartz is determined to build up the country before the Mongol invasion that will come ten years later
Author: Henry Petroski Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307427366 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 267
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Here are two dozen tales in the grand adventure of engineering from the Henry Petroski, who has been called America’s poet laureate of technology. Pushing the Limits celebrates some of the largest things we have created–bridges, dams, buildings--and provides a startling new vision of engineering’s past, its present, and its future. Along the way it highlights our greatest successes, like London’s Tower Bridge; our most ambitious projects, like China’s Three Gorges Dam; our most embarrassing moments, like the wobbly Millennium Bridge in London; and our greatest failures, like the collapse of the twin towers on September 11. Throughout, Petroski provides fascinating and provocative insights into the world of technology with his trademark erudition and enthusiasm for the subject.
Author: Charles Felton Scott Publisher: Wentworth Press ISBN: 9781362166566 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 26
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Author: Gilbert Ruley Smith P.E.
Author: Gilbert Ruley Smith P.E.
Author: Victor C. Alderson (b. 1862)
Author: Henry Petroski
Author: Brett Schilke
Author: Victor C.. Alderson
Author: Charles Felton Scott
Author: Raymond L. Wheeler
Author: Leo Frankowski
Author: Henry Petroski
Author: Charles Felton Scott