Author: Publisher:
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Highways and Agricultural Engineering, Current Literature
Author: The Experiment Station Soil Mechanics Bulletin
Author: Waterways Experiment Station (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soil mechanics
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Mobile Rotary Drill Rig Barge-mounted
Author: Waterways Experiment Station (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soil mechanics
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
A Passion for Ideas
Author: Heinrich von PiererPublisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 9781557532091
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Business and industry leaders are eager to find ways to spark the creative instinct in their work forces. The creation, implementation, and sustainability of new ideas is the lifeblood ensuring the growth and viability of any organization. Without continuing innovation, competitive advantage and global market share are endangered. Once-thriving organizations can find themselves unprepared for the future. This newly translated work examines the multi-layered environment of innovation by melding the thoughts of business management pundits like Peter Senge with the views of artist, politicians, and other non-traditional thinkers like Tao Ho, Peter Greenaway, and Wolfgang Rihm. These thought leaders share their insights and help us to understand the process of creativity and construction and the methods to move organizations forward in an ever-changing climate.
Backpacker
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Backpacker brings the outdoors straight to the reader's doorstep, inspiring and enabling them to go more places and enjoy nature more often. The authority on active adventure, Backpacker is the world's first GPS-enabled magazine, and the only magazine whose editors personally test the hiking trails, camping gear, and survival tips they publish. Backpacker's Editors' Choice Awards, an industry honor recognizing design, feature and product innovation, has become the gold standard against which all other outdoor-industry awards are measured.
Intelligence Revolution 1960
Author: Ingard ClausenPublisher:
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Category : Astronautics, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Overview: Provides a history of the Corona Satellite photo reconnaissance Program. It was a joint Central Intelligence Agency and United States Air Force program in the 1960s. It was then highly classified.
Historic Residential Suburbs
Author: David L. AmesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Rocket Propulsion
Author: Stephen D. HeisterPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108422276
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 589
Book Description
Equips students with an up-to-date practical knowledge of rocket propulsion, numerous homework problems, and online self-study materials.
When Computers Were Human
Author: David Alan GrierPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400849365
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
Before Palm Pilots and iPods, PCs and laptops, the term "computer" referred to the people who did scientific calculations by hand. These workers were neither calculating geniuses nor idiot savants but knowledgeable people who, in other circumstances, might have become scientists in their own right. When Computers Were Human represents the first in-depth account of this little-known, 200-year epoch in the history of science and technology. Beginning with the story of his own grandmother, who was trained as a human computer, David Alan Grier provides a poignant introduction to the wider world of women and men who did the hard computational labor of science. His grandmother's casual remark, "I wish I'd used my calculus," hinted at a career deferred and an education forgotten, a secret life unappreciated; like many highly educated women of her generation, she studied to become a human computer because nothing else would offer her a place in the scientific world. The book begins with the return of Halley's comet in 1758 and the effort of three French astronomers to compute its orbit. It ends four cycles later, with a UNIVAC electronic computer projecting the 1986 orbit. In between, Grier tells us about the surveyors of the French Revolution, describes the calculating machines of Charles Babbage, and guides the reader through the Great Depression to marvel at the giant computing room of the Works Progress Administration. When Computers Were Human is the sad but lyrical story of workers who gladly did the hard labor of research calculation in the hope that they might be part of the scientific community. In the end, they were rewarded by a new electronic machine that took the place and the name of those who were, once, the computers.