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Author : Louis C. Hunter
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book A History of Industrial Power in the United States,1780-1930 written by Louis C. Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louis C. Hunter
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
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Download or read book A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780-1930: Steam power written by Louis C. Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louis C. Hunter
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813910444
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (14 download)
Download or read book A History of Industrial Power in the U. S., 1780-1930 written by Louis C. Hunter and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of industrial steam power, explains important technological achievements, and looks at influential inventors, engine builders, and entrepreneurs
Author : Louis C. Hunter
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Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780-1930: The transmission of power written by Louis C. Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald C. Jackson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806137339
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Building the Ultimate Dam written by Donald C. Jackson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers compelling insight into how designer Eastwood battled government bureaucrats, corporate patrons, and fellow hydraulic engineers to build seventeen dams in the western U.S. during the early twentieth century based on his innovative multiple-arch design. Reprint.
Author : Arne Hessenbruch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134262949
Total Pages : 965 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Reader's Guide to the History of Science written by Arne Hessenbruch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 965 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reader's Guide to the History of Science looks at the literature of science in some 550 entries on individuals (Einstein), institutions and disciplines (Mathematics), general themes (Romantic Science) and central concepts (Paradigm and Fact). The history of science is construed widely to include the history of medicine and technology as is reflected in the range of disciplines from which the international team of 200 contributors are drawn.
Author : Louis C. Hunter
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780-1930: Waterpower in the century of the steam engine written by Louis C. Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Nell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134752334
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Transformational Growth and the Business Cycle written by Edward Nell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-09-27 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the concept of Transformational Growth from a number of different historical and geographical perspectives. Transformational Growth sees the economy as an evolving system in which the market selects and finances innovations, changing the character of costs and affecting the pattern of market adjustment. This creates the possibility that markets will work differently in particular historical periods. This book explores market adjustments in two distinct historical periods, 1870-1914 and 1945-the present. The book focuses on six countries: USA, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Japan and Argentina. In all cases the earlier period, dominated by craft-based technologies, proves to be the one in which markets adjust through a weakly stabilising price mechanism. By contrast, in the later period, in all cases, with the exception of Argentina, there is no evidence of such a price mechanism, but in its place can be seen a multiplier-accelerator process which, arguably, reflects a change of technology to mass-production.
Author : William B. Meyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190212810
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Americans and Their Weather written by William B. Meyer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the major exchanges that have occurred since colonial times in the role of weather in life and livelihood in the U.S. The intent is to relate how shifts in ordinary human activities have been influenced and altered the significance of climate patterns -- patterns that have been far more stable than the society experiencing them -- development of weather science where appropriate. At times, persistent features of our climate and recurrent weather have acted as help or hindrance, hazard or resource. And as ways of life in country have changed, these features have become hazard o.
Author : Betsy H. Bradley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195090000
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Works written by Betsy H. Bradley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While tracing the important developments in industrial architecture over a one-hundred-year period, she demonstrates that as the United States became an industrialized nation, the goals pursued in industrial architecture remained straightforward and constant even as the means to achieve them changed.
Author : Thomas A. Edison
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801886406
Total Pages : 940 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Papers of Thomas A. Edison written by Thomas A. Edison and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers sketches, notebook entries, letters, articles, patent information, and financial papers from the beginning of Edison's career as an inventor
Author : Clay McShane
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801892317
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Horse in the City written by Clay McShane and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-07-16 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honorable mention, 2007 Lewis Mumford Prize, American Society of City and Regional Planning The nineteenth century was the golden age of the horse. In urban America, the indispensable horse provided the power for not only vehicles that moved freight, transported passengers, and fought fires but also equipment in breweries, mills, foundries, and machine shops. Clay McShane and Joel A. Tarr, prominent scholars of American urban life, here explore the critical role that the horse played in the growing nineteenth-century metropolis. Using such diverse sources as veterinary manuals, stable periodicals, teamster magazines, city newspapers, and agricultural yearbooks, they examine how the horses were housed and fed and how workers bred, trained, marketed, and employed their four-legged assets. Not omitting the problems of waste removal and corpse disposal, they touch on the municipal challenges of maintaining a safe and productive living environment for both horses and people and the rise of organizations like the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In addition to providing an insightful account of life and work in nineteenth-century urban America, The Horse in the City brings us to a richer understanding of how the animal fared in this unnatural and presumably uncomfortable setting.
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ISBN 13 : 981446788X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Studies on Science and the Innovation Process written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Guido Buenstorf
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781781957653
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (576 download)
Download or read book The Economics of Energy and the Production Process written by Guido Buenstorf and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Guido Buenstorf's book is a splendid attempt to break new ground in the theory of production. Turning away from the ever more abstract - and theoretically empty - production function approach, he shows how changing physical constraints in the utilisation of energy systematically affect production processes in the economy. With his analysis the author challenges the value based approach to production. He outlines the contours of a richer theory, which is capable of accounting for physical and technological aspects without losing sight of their economic implications.' - Ulrich Witt, Max Planck Institute for Research into Economic Systems, Germany 'This book makes a fundamental contribution to economics, in that it deals with production theory from a perspective that integrates economics with engineering and science. It represents a far more realistic interpretation than the standard neoclassical approach and will act as a stimulus for further research in this area.' - Robert U. Ayres, INSEAD, France The economics of energy has been a contested issue over the past century. Although it has not figured prominently in mainstream economics, numerous alternative proposals have called for energy to play a more central role in economic theory. In this highly original and enlightening volume, Guido Buenstorf develops a new conceptual approach to the economics of energy which originates from recent advances in evolutionary economics.
Author : Vaclav Smil
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199883416
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Creating the Twentieth Century written by Vaclav Smil and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period between 1867 and 1914 remains the greatest watershed in human history since the emergence of settled agricultural societies: the time when an expansive civilization based on synergy of fuels, science, and technical innovation was born. At its beginnings in the 1870s were dynamite, the telephone, photographic film, and the first light bulbs. Its peak decade - the astonishing 1880s - brought electricity - generating plants, electric motors, steam turbines, the gramophone, cars, aluminum production, air-filled rubber tires, and prestressed concrete. And its post-1900 period saw the first airplanes, tractors, radio signals and plastics, neon lights and assembly line production. This book is a systematic interdisciplinary account of the history of this outpouring of European and American intellect and of its truly epochal consequences. It takes a close look at four fundamental classes of these epoch-making innovations: formation, diffusion, and standardization of electric systems; invention and rapid adoption of internal combustion engines; the unprecedented pace of new chemical syntheses and material substitutions; and the birth of a new information age. These chapters are followed by an evaluation of the lasting impact these advances had on the 20th century, that is, the creation of high-energy societies engaged in mass production aimed at improving standards of living.
Author : David E. Nye
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262263947
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)
Download or read book America as Second Creation written by David E. Nye and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004-09-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the dialogue that emerged after 1776 between different visions of what it meant to use new technologies to transform the land. After 1776, the former American colonies began to reimagine themselves as a unified, self-created community. Technologies had an important role in the resulting national narratives, and a few technologies assumed particular prominence. Among these were the axe, the mill, the canal, the railroad, and the irrigation dam. In this book David Nye explores the stories that clustered around these technologies. In doing so, he rediscovers an American story of origins, with America conceived as a second creation built in harmony with God's first creation. While mainstream Americans constructed technological foundation stories to explain their place in the New World, however, marginalized groups told other stories of destruction and loss. Native Americans protested the loss of their forests, fishermen resisted the construction of dams, and early environmentalists feared the exhaustionof resources. A water mill could be viewed as the kernel of a new community or as a new way to exploit labor. If passengers comprehended railways as part of a larger narrative about American expansion and progress, many farmers attacked railroad land grants. To explore these contradictions, Nye devotes alternating chapters to narratives of second creation and to narratives of those who rejected it.Nye draws on popular literature, speeches, advertisements, paintings, and many other media to create a history of American foundation stories. He shows how these stories were revised periodically, as social and economic conditions changed, without ever erasing the earlier stories entirely. The image of the isolated frontier family carving a homestead out of the wilderness with an axe persists to this day, alongside later images and narratives. In the book's conclusion, Nye considers the relation between these earlier stories and such later American developments as the conservation movement, narratives of environmental recovery, and the idealization of wilderness.
Author : Joshua Getzler
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Modern Legal
ISBN 13 : 9780198265818
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (658 download)
Download or read book A History of Water Rights at Common Law written by Joshua Getzler and published by Oxford Studies in Modern Legal. This book was released on 2004 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water resources were central to England's precocious economic development in the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries, and then again in the industrial, transport, and urban revolutions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Each of these periods saw a great deal of legal conflict over water rights, often between domestic, agricultural, and manufacturing interests competing for access to flowing water. From 1750 the common-law courts developed a large but unstable body of legal doctrine, specifying strong property rights in flowing water attached to riparian possession, and also limited rights to surface and underground waters. The new water doctrines were built from older concepts of common goods and the natural rights of ownership, deriving from Roman and Civilian law, together with the English sources of Bracton and Blackstone. Water law is one of the most Romanesque parts of English law, demonstrating the extent to which Common and Civilian law have commingled. Water law stands as a refutation of the still-common belief that English and European law parted ways irreversibly in the twelfth century. Getzler also describes the economic as well as the legal history of water use from early times, and examines the classical problem of the relationship between law and economic development. He suggests that water law was shaped both by the impact of technological innovations and by economic ideology, but above all by legalism.
