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Author : David O. Woodbury
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ISBN 13 : 9781258841478
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (414 download)
Download or read book Beloved Scientist written by David O. Woodbury and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1944 edition.
Author : David Oakes Woodbury
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Total Pages : 358 pages
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Download or read book Beloved Scientist, Elihu Thomson written by David Oakes Woodbury and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David O. Woodbury
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ISBN 13 : 9781436706902
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Beloved Scientist: Elihu Thomson, a Guiding Spirit of the Electric Age written by David O. Woodbury and published by . This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : David O. Woodbury
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ISBN 13 : 9781258777074
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Beloved Scientist written by David O. Woodbury and published by . This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maury Klein
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596918349
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)
Download or read book The Power Makers written by Maury Klein and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maury Klein is one of America's most acclaimed historians of business and society. In The Power Makers, he offers an epic narrative of his greatest subject yet - the "power revolution" that transformed American life in the course of the nineteenth century. The steam engine; the incandescent bulb; the electric motor-inventions such as these replaced backbreaking toil with machine labor and changed every aspect of daily life in the span of a few generations. The cast of characters includes inventors like James Watt, Elihu Thomson, and Nikola Tesla; entrepreneurs like George Westinghouse; savvy businessmen like J.P. Morgan, Samuel Insull, and Charles Coffin of General Electric. Striding among them like a colossus is the figure of Thomas Edison, who was creative genius and business visionary at once. With consummate skill, Klein recreates their discoveries, their stunning triumphs and frequent failures, and their unceasing, bare-knuckled battles in the marketplace. In Klein's hands, their personalities and discoveries leap off the page. The Power Makers is a dazzling saga of inspired invention, dogged persistence, and business competition at its most naked and cutthroat--a biography of America in its most astonishing decades.
Author : W. Bernard Carlson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521533126
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (331 download)
Download or read book Innovation as a Social Process written by W. Bernard Carlson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-13 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elihu Thomson was a late-nineteenth-century American inventor who helped create the first electric lighting and power systems. One of the most prolific inventors in American history, Thomson was granted nearly 700 patents in a career spanning the 1880s to 1930s.
Author : Philip N. Alexander
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262543990
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book A Widening Sphere written by Philip N. Alexander and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How MIT's first nine presidents helped transform the Institute from a small technical school into a major research university. MIT was founded in 1861 as a polytechnic institute in Boston's Back Bay, overshadowed by its neighbor across the Charles River, Harvard University. Harvard offered a classical education to young men of America's ruling class; the early MIT trained men (and a few women) from all parts of society as engineers for the nation's burgeoning industries. Over the years, MIT expanded its mission and ventured into other fields—pure science, social science, the humanities—and established itself in Cambridge as Harvard's enduring rival. In A Widening Sphere, Philip Alexander traces MIT's evolution from polytechnic to major research institution through the lives of its first nine presidents, exploring how the ideas, outlook, approach, and personality of each shaped the school's intellectual and social cultures. Alexander describes, among otherthings, the political skill and entrepreneurial spirit of founder and first president, William Rogers; institutional growing pains under John Runkle; Francis Walker's campaign to broaden the curriculum, especially in the social sciences, and to recruit first-rate faculty; James Crafts, whose heart lay in research, not administration; Henry Pritchett's thwarted effort to merge with Harvard (after which he decamped to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching); Richard Maclaurin's successful strategy to move the institute to Cambridge, after considering other sites (including a golfclub in Brighton); the brilliant, progressive Ernest Nichols, who succumbed to chronic illness and barely held office; Samuel Stratton's push towards a global perspective; and Karl Compton's vision for a new kind of Institute—a university polarized around science and technology. Through these interlocking yet independent portraits, Alexander reveals the inner workings of a complex and dynamic community of innovators.
Author : Ronald Clark
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448210275
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)
Download or read book Edison written by Ronald Clark and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is almost a century since Thomas Alva Edison, the world's greatest inventor, gave the world electric light - and exactly one hundred years since he built the first successful phonograph (forerunner of the gramophone). The man who declared that "genius is 1 per cent inspiration and 99 per cent perspiration," and who on average lodged a patent every two weeks of his adult life, was the most famous American of his day. Only now, however, is it possible to present him clearly against the background of his times and to access fairly his achievements and his often controversial business and working methods. In Edison: The Man Who Made The Future, first published in 1977, Ronald Clark describes the inventors early untutored upbringing, his struggles in the industrial jungle which grew up in the aftermath of the American Civil War, and his vital contributions to what became the motion picture industry. A prolific inventor in his own right, he was also a developer of other men's ideas. A pacifist, he became President of the U.S. Naval Consulting Board in the First World War. Thrusting, enquiring, and determined to leave his mark on history, he was, perhaps, the archetypal American of his era.
Author : Naomi R. Lamoreaux
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226468585
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Coordination and Information written by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case studies that examine how firms coordinate economic activity in the face of asymmetric information—information not equally available to all parties—are the focus of this volume. In an ideal world, the market would be the optimal provider of coordination, but in the real world of incomplete information, some activities are better coordinated in other ways. Divided into three parts, this book addresses coordination within firms, at the borders of firms, and outside firms, providing a picture of the overall incidence and logic of economic coordination. The case studies—drawn from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, when the modern business enterprise was evolving, address such issues as the relationship between coordination mechanisms and production techniques, the logic of coordination in industrial districts, and the consequences of regulation for coordination. Continuing the work on information and organization presented in the influential Inside the Business Enterprise, this book provides material for business historians and economists who want to study the development of the dissemination of information and the coordination of economic activity within and between firms.
Author : W. Bernard Carlson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691165610
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Tesla written by W. Bernard Carlson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The gold standard for Tesla biography.”—Science “Superb.”—Nature The definitive account of Tesla's life and work Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at the turn of the twentieth century. His inventions, patents, and theoretical work formed the basis of modern AC electricity, and contributed to the development of radio and television. Like his competitor Thomas Edison, Tesla was one of America's first celebrity scientists, enjoying the company of New York high society and dazzling the likes of Mark Twain with his electrical demonstrations. An astute self-promoter and gifted showman, he cultivated a public image of the eccentric genius. Even at the end of his life when he was living in poverty, Tesla still attracted reporters to his annual birthday interview, regaling them with claims that he had invented a particle-beam weapon capable of bringing down enemy aircraft. Plenty of biographies glamorize Tesla and his eccentricities, but until now none has carefully examined what, how, and why he invented. In this groundbreaking book, W. Bernard Carlson demystifies the legendary inventor, placing him within the cultural and technological context of his time, and focusing on his inventions themselves as well as the creation and maintenance of his celebrity. Drawing on original documents from Tesla's private and public life, Carlson shows how he was an "idealist" inventor who sought the perfect experimental realization of a great idea or principle, and who skillfully sold his inventions to the public through mythmaking and illusion. This major biography sheds new light on Tesla's visionary approach to invention and the business strategies behind his most important technological breakthroughs.
Author : General Electric Company
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book General Electric Review written by General Electric Company and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1688 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Electrical World written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 1688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Michels (Journalist)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Science written by John Michels (Journalist) and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Graham Daves Rossell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Compelling Vision: from Electric Light to Illuminating Engineering, 1880-1940 written by Edward Graham Daves Rossell and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 992 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Saturday Review of Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Natural History written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American Journal of Physics written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archival journal targeted toward advanced-level physics and physics education, with its focus on the teaching and cultural aspects of physics.
