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Author : Pamela Etter Mack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (132 download)
Download or read book From Engineering Science to Big Science written by Pamela Etter Mack and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : NASA
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781410225313
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (253 download)
Download or read book From Engineering Science to Big Science written by NASA and published by . This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Consists of essays on individual aerospace R&D projects throughout the history of both the NACA and NASA. These R&D projects are unified by the fact that each received the coveted Robert J. Collier Trophy for their numerous advances in the performance, efficiency, or safety of flying vehicles."--Back cover.
Author : O. Anwar Bég
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1899293523
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Giants of Engineering Science written by O. Anwar Bég and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2003 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giants of Engineering Science is a biographical monograph examining the life and works of ten of the world’s leading engineering scientists.
Author : David F. Channell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331995606X
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)
Download or read book The Rise of Engineering Science written by David F. Channell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th and 19th centuries saw the emergence of new intermediary types of knowledge in areas such as applied mechanics, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics, which came to be labeled as engineering science, transforming technology into the scientific discipline that we know today. This book analyzes how the Scientific Revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries and the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries provided the intellectual, social, economic and institutional foundations for the emergence of engineering science. The book then traces the rise of engineering science from the 18th century through the 19th century and concludes by showing how it led to new technological developments in such areas as steel production, the invention of internal combustion engines, the creation of automobiles and airplanes, and the formulation of Mass Production and Scientific Management all of which brought about major transformations in the materials, power sources, transportation and production techniques that have come to shape our modern world.
Author : John Bird
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0750657774
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Science for Engineering written by John Bird and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2003 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark D. Bowles
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160877377
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (773 download)
Download or read book Science in Flux written by Mark D. Bowles and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2006 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James R. Hansen
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585442430
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)
Download or read book The Bird Is on the Wing written by James R. Hansen and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The airplane ranks as one of history's most ingenious and phenomenal inventions--and surely one of the most world-shaking. How ideas about its aerodynamics first came together and how the science and technology evolved to forge the airplane into the revolutionary machine it became is the epic story James R. Hansen tells in The Bird Is on the Wing. Just as the airplane is a defining technology of the twentieth century, aerodynamics has been the defining element of the airplane. Hansen provides an engaging, easily understandable introduction to the role of aerodynamics in the design of such historic American aircraft as the DC-3, X-1, and 747. Recognizing the impact individuals have had on the development of the field, he conveys not only a history of aircraft technology, but also a collective biography of the scientists, engineers, and designers who created the airplanes. From da Vinci, whose understanding of what it took to fly was three centuries too early for practical use, to the invention of the airplane by the Wright brothers, Hansen explores the technological matrix from which aeronautical engineering emerged. He skillfully guides the reader through the development of such critical aerodynamic concepts as streamlining, flutter, laminar-flow airfoils, the mythical "sound barrier," variable-sweep wing, supersonic cruise, blended body, and much more. Hansen's explanation of how vocabulary and specifications were developed to fill the gap between the perceptions of pilots and the system of engineers will fascinate all those interested in how human beings have used aerodynamics to move among, and even beyond, birds on the wing.
Author : Angela N. H. Creager
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226120244
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine written by Angela N. H. Creager and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What useful changes has feminism brought to science? Feminists have enjoyed success in their efforts to open many fields to women as participants. But the effects of feminism have not been restricted to altering employment and professional opportunities for women. The essays in this volume explore how feminist theory has had a direct impact on research in the biological and social sciences, in medicine, and in technology, often providing the impetus for fundamentally changing the theoretical underpinnings and practices of such research. In archaeology, evidence of women's hunting activities suggested by spears found in women's graves is no longer dismissed; computer scientists have used feminist epistemologies for rethinking the human-interface problems of our growing reliance on computers. Attention to women's movements often tends to reinforce a presumption that feminism changes institutions through critique-from-without. This volume reveals the potent but not always visible transformations feminism has brought to science, technology, and medicine from within. Contributors: Ruth Schwartz Cowan Linda Marie Fedigan Scott Gilbert Evelynn M. Hammonds Evelyn Fox Keller Pamela E. Mack Michael S. Mahoney Emily Martin Ruth Oldenziel Nelly Oudshoorn Carroll Pursell Karen Rader Alison Wylie
Author : Kathryn D. Sullivan
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262043181
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Handprints on Hubble written by Kathryn D. Sullivan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first American woman to walk in space recounts her experience as part of the team that launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained the Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized our understanding of the universe. It has, among many other achievements, revealed thousands of galaxies in what seemed to be empty patches of sky; transformed our knowledge of black holes; found dwarf planets with moons orbiting other stars; and measured precisely how fast the universe is expanding. In Handprints on Hubble, retired astronaut Kathryn Sullivan describes her work on the NASA team that made all of this possible. Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space, recounts how she and other astronauts, engineers, and scientists launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained Hubble, the most productive observatory ever built. Along the way, Sullivan chronicles her early life as a “Sputnik Baby,” her path to NASA through oceanography, and her initiation into the space program as one of “thirty-five new guys.” (She was also one of the first six women to join NASA's storied astronaut corps.) She describes in vivid detail what liftoff feels like inside a spacecraft (it's like “being in an earthquake and a fighter jet at the same time”), shows us the view from a spacewalk, and recounts the temporary grounding of the shuttle program after the Challenger disaster. Sullivan explains that “maintainability” was designed into Hubble, and she describes the work of inventing the tools and processes that made on-orbit maintenance possible. Because in-flight repair and upgrade was part of the plan, NASA was able to fix a serious defect in Hubble's mirrors—leaving literal and metaphorical “handprints on Hubble.” Handprints on Hubble was published with the support of the MIT Press Fund for Diverse Voices.
Author : James R. Hansen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book The Wind and Beyond: The ascent of the airplane written by James R. Hansen and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James R. Hansen
Publisher : www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (317 download)
Download or read book The Wind and Beyond written by James R. Hansen and published by www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK. This book was released on 2003 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 relates the story of the invention of the airplane by the Wright brothers and the creation of the original aeronautical research establishment in the United States.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Wind and Beyond written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101190299
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Voyager written by Stephen J. Pyne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant new account of the Voyager space program-its history, scientific impact, and cultural legacy Launched in 1977, the two unmanned Voyager spacecraft have completed their Grand Tour to the four outer planets, and they are now on course to become the first man-made objects to exit our solar system. To many, this remarkable achievement is the culmination of a golden age of American planetary exploration, begun in the wake of the 1957 Sputnik launch. More than this, Voyager may be one of the purest expressions of exploration in human history. For more than five hundred years the West has been powered by the impulse to explore, to push into a wider world. In this highly original book, Stephen Pyne recasts Voyager in the tradition of Magellan, Columbus, Cook, Lewis and Clark, and other landmark explorers. The Renaissance and Enlightenment-the First and Second Ages of Discovery- sent humans across continents and oceans to find new worlds. In the Third Age, expeditions have penetrated the Antarctic ice, reached the floors of the oceans, and traveled to the planets by new means, most spectacularly via semi-autonomous robot. Voyager probes how the themes of motive and reward are stunningly parallel through all three ages. Voyager, which gave us the first breathtaking images of Jupiter and Saturn, changed our sense of our own place in the universe.
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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 9780080930749
Total Pages : 1472 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Sciences written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2009-11-27 with total page 1472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Sciences addresses numerous issues in the emerging field of the philosophy of those sciences that are involved in the technological process of designing, developing and making of new technical artifacts and systems. These issues include the nature of design, of technological knowledge, and of technical artifacts, as well as the toolbox of engineers. Most of these have thus far not been analyzed in general philosophy of science, which has traditionally but inadequately regarded technology as mere applied science and focused on physics, biology, mathematics and the social sciences. • First comprehensive philosophical handbook on technology and the engineering sciences • Unparalleled in scope including explorative articles • In depth discussion of technical artifacts and their ontology • Provides extensive analysis of the nature of engineering design • Focuses in detail on the role of models in technology
Author : William J. Clancey
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026201775X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Working on Mars written by William J. Clancey and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 2004, a team of geologists and other planetary scientists did field science in a dark room in Pasadena, exploring Mars from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) by means of the remotely operated Mars Exploration Rovers (MER). Clustered around monitors, living on Mars time, painstakingly plotting each movement of the rovers and their tools, sensors, and cameras, these scientists reported that they felt as if they were on Mars themselves, doing field science. The MER created a virtual experience of being on Mars. This book examines how the MER has changed the nature of planetary field science. NASA cast the rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, as "robotic geologists," and ascribed machine initiative to remotely controlled actions. Clancey argues that the actual explorers were not the rovers but the scientists, who imaginatively projected themselves into the body of the machine to conduct the first overland expedition of another planet. The author investigates how the design of the rover mission enables field science on Mars, explaining how the scientists and rover engineers manipulate the vehicle and why the programmable tools and analytic instruments work so well for them.
Author : Rick Houston
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496209826
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Wheels Stop written by Rick Houston and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity's first reusable spacecraft and the most complex machine ever built, NASA's Space Shuttle debuted with great promise and as a dependable source of wonder and national pride. But with the Challenger catastrophe in 1986, the whole Space Shuttle program came into question, as did NASA itself, so long an institution that was seemingly above reproach. Wheels Stop tells the stirring story of how, after the Challenger disaster, the Space Shuttle not only recovered but went on to perform its greatest missions. From the Return to Flight mission of STS-26 in 1988 to the last shuttle mission ever on STS-135 in 2011, Wheels Stop takes readers behind the scenes as the shuttle's crews begin to mend Cold War tensions with the former Soviet Union, conduct vital research, deploy satellites, repair the Hubble Space Telescope, and assist in constructing the International Space Station. It also tells the heart-wrenching story of the Columbia tragedy and the loss of the magnificent STS-107 crew. As complex as the shuttle was, the people it carried into orbit were often more so--and this is their story, too. Close encounters with astronauts, flight controllers, and shuttle workers capture the human side of the Space Shuttle's amazing journey--and invite readers along for the ride. Browse more spaceflight books atupinspace.org. Purchase the audio edition.
Author : Mark D. Bowles
Publisher : U. S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The "Apollo" of Aeronautics written by Mark D. Bowles and published by U. S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration. This book was released on 2010 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book covers the Aircraft Energy Efficiency (ACEE), consisting of six aeronautical projects born out of the energy crisis of the 1970s and divided between the Lewis and Langley Research Centers in Ohio and Virginia.
