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How Invention Begins

Author : John H. Lienhard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199885567
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book How Invention Begins written by John H. Lienhard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In How Invention Begins, Lienhard reconciles the ends of invention with the individual leaps upon which they are built, illuminating the vast web of individual inspirations that lie behind whole technologies. He traces, for instance, the way in which thousands of people applied their combined inventive genius to airplanes, railroad engines, and automobiles. As he does so, it becomes clear that a collective desire, an upwelling of fascination, a spirit of the times--a Zeitgeist--laid its hold upon inventors. The thing they all sought to create was speed itself. Likewise, Lienhard shows that when we trace the astonishingly complex technology of printing books, we come at last to that which we desire from books--the knowledge, the learning, that they provide. Can we speak of speed or education as inventions? To do so, he concludes, is certainly no greater a stretch than it is to call radio or the telephone an "invention." Throughout this marvelous volume, Lienhard illuminates these webs of insight or inspiration by weaving a fabric of anecdote, history, and technical detail--all of which come together to provide a full and satisfying portrait of the true nature of invention.

The Tentacles of Progress

Author : Daniel R. Headrick
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195051165
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Tentacles of Progress written by Daniel R. Headrick and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This penetrating examination of a paradox of colonial rule shows how the massive transfers of technology--including equipment, techniques, and experts--from the European imperial powers to their colonies in Asia and Africa resulted not in industrialization but in underdevelopment. Examining the most important technologies--shipping and railways, telegraphs and wireless, urban water supply and sewage disposal, economic botany and plantation agriculture, irrigation, and mining and metallurgy--Headrick provides a new perspective on colonial economic history and reopens the debate on the roots of Asian and African underdevelopment.

Imperialism at Sea

Author : Rolf Hobson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004474412
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Imperialism at Sea written by Rolf Hobson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz' plan for naval expansion and the development of a "risk fleet" as a way to position Wilhelmine Germany as a world power to rival Britain so unique? This comparative study of the modern naval strategy of Germany, Britain, France, and the United States seeks to answer that question. First, Hobson is the only naval scholar to simultaneously compare the "Tirpitz Plan" with plans of the other leading nations of that time. Second, Hobson also interacts with how other scholars have assessed the complex interplay between naval history--both in and outside Germany--maritime law, and naval strategy. Hobson offers a unique interpretation of the causes and objectives of the German Imperial Navy at the end of the nineteenth century, forces that ultimately led to the First World War.

Bridging the Seas

Author : Larrie D. Ferreiro
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262538075
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Bridging the Seas written by Larrie D. Ferreiro and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the introduction of steam, iron, and steel required new rules and new ways of thinking for the design and building of ships. In the 1800s, shipbuilding moved from sail and wood to steam, iron, and steel. The competitive pressure to achieve more predictable ocean transportation drove the industrialization of shipbuilding, as shipowners demanded ships that enabled tighter scheduling, improved performance, and safe delivery of cargoes. In Bridging the Seas, naval historian Larrie Ferreiro describes this transformation of shipbuilding, portraying the rise of a professionalized naval architecture as an integral part of the Industrial Age. Picking up where his earlier book, Ships and Science, left off, Ferreiro explains that the introduction of steam, iron, and steel required new rules and new ways of thinking for designing and building ships. The characteristics of performance had to be first measured, then theorized. Ship theory led to the development of quantifiable standards that would ensure the safety and quality required by industry and governments, and this in turn led to the professionalization of naval architecture as an engineering discipline. Ferreiro describes, among other things, the technologies that allowed greater predictability in ship performance; theoretical developments in naval architecture regarding motion, speed and power, propellers, maneuvering, and structural design; the integration of theory into ship design and construction; and the emergence of a laboratory infrastructure for research.

Science and Civilisation in China

Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521070607
Total Pages : 1190 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Science and Civilisation in China written by Joseph Needham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 1190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Britain and the Persian Gulf, 1894-1914

Author : Briton Cooper Busch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain and the Persian Gulf, 1894-1914 written by Briton Cooper Busch and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mariner's Mirror

Author : Leonard George Carr Laughton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Mariner's Mirror written by Leonard George Carr Laughton and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 12

Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691185190
Total Pages : 790 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 12 written by Thomas Jefferson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 580 documents in this volume cover a wide range of fascinating topics. Jefferson receives impressions of a mammoth's tooth, altitude and meteorological observations, a call for a national pharmacopoeia, a discussion of primeval geology, and a letter that elicits Jefferson’s opinion that cognition exists "in animal bodies certainly, in Vegetables probably, in Minerals not impossibly." Jefferson leases his Tufton and Lego plantations to his grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph. The directors of the Rivanna Company rebut Jefferson’s 1817 bill of complaint and he unwittingly ensures his eventual financial ruin by endorsing notes totaling $20,000 for Wilson Cary Nicholas. Jefferson adds to the collections of the American Philosophical Society and writes an extended introduction to the "Anas," a corpus of official papers and political anecdotes documenting his service as George Washington’s secretary of state. Jefferson drafts legislation to establish a public education system in Virginia. He attends a Masonic cornerstone laying ceremony for the nascent Central College’s first pavilion early in October 1817 and is greatly pleased by the passage on 21 February 1818 of a law establishing a commission to plan a new state university, raising his hopes that Central College might soon become the University of Virginia.

Power over Peoples

Author : Daniel R. Headrick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400833590
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Power over Peoples written by Daniel R. Headrick and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major history of technology and Western conquest For six hundred years, the nations of Europe and North America have periodically attempted to coerce, invade, or conquer other societies. They have relied on their superior technology to do so, yet these technologies have not always guaranteed success. Power over Peoples examines Western imperialism's complex relationship with technology, from the first Portuguese ships that ventured down the coast of Africa in the 1430s to America's conflicts in the Middle East today. Why did the sailing vessels that gave the Portuguese a century-long advantage in the Indian Ocean fail to overcome Muslim galleys in the Red Sea? Why were the same weapons and methods that the Spanish used to conquer Mexico and Peru ineffective in Chile and Africa? Why didn't America's overwhelming air power assure success in Iraq and Afghanistan? In Power over Peoples, Daniel Headrick traces the evolution of Western technologies—from muskets and galleons to jet planes and smart bombs—and sheds light on the environmental and social factors that have brought victory in some cases and unforeseen defeat in others. He shows how superior technology translates into greater power over nature and sometimes even other peoples, yet how technological superiority is no guarantee of success in imperialist ventures—because the technology only delivers results in a specific environment, or because the society being attacked responds in unexpected ways. Breathtaking in scope, Power over Peoples is a revealing history of technological innovation, its promise and limitations, and its central role in the rise and fall of empire. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Transport and the Development of the European Economy, 1750–1918

Author : Simon P Ville
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134920935X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Transport and the Development of the European Economy, 1750–1918 written by Simon P Ville and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-08-22 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Science and Civilisation in China, Part 2, Mechanical Engineering

Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521058032
Total Pages : 1022 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (58 download)

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Book Synopsis Science and Civilisation in China, Part 2, Mechanical Engineering by : Joseph Needham

Download or read book Science and Civilisation in China, Part 2, Mechanical Engineering written by Joseph Needham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1965-01-02 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Dr Needham's immense undertaking gathers momentum it has been found necessary to subdivide volumes into parts, each to be bound and published separately. The first part of Volume 4, already published, deals with the physical sciences; the second with the diverse applications of physics in the many branches of mechanical engineering; and the third will deal with civil and hydraulic engineering and nautical technology. With this part of Volume 4, then, we come to the application by the Chinese of physical principles in the control of forces and in the use of power; we cross the frontier separating tools from the machine. We have already noticed that the ancient Chinese concept of chhi (somewhat similar to the pneuma of the Greeks) asserted itself prominently in acoustics; but we discover here that the Chinese tendency to think pneumatically was also responsible for a whole range of brilliant technological achievements, for example, the double-acting piston-bellows, the rotary winnowing-fan, and the water-powered metallurgical blowing-machine (ancestor of the steam-engine); as well as for some extraordinary insights and predictions in aeronautics.

Horizons marins, itinéraires spirituels (Ve-XVIIIe siècles): Marins, navires et affaires

Author : Henri Dubois
Publisher : Publications de la Sorbonne
ISBN 13 : 9782859441425
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (414 download)

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Download or read book Horizons marins, itinéraires spirituels (Ve-XVIIIe siècles): Marins, navires et affaires written by Henri Dubois and published by Publications de la Sorbonne. This book was released on 1987 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La 4e de couv. indique : "Les 26 contributions réunies dans ce volume renouvellent quelques-uns des secteurs de l'histoire maritime, en attirant l'attention sur la méthodologie, les recherches récentes, les problématiques nouvelles, la recherche interdisciplinaire, l'archéologie, l'iconographie et le roman. On suit pendant deux millénaires quelques-uns des nombreux changements qui ont affecté les façades océaniques des cinq continents, en Amérique latine comme à Madagascar et dans l'Océan Indien, sur les rivages de la Méditerranée comme dans le commerce eurasien. Quelques thèmes demeurent privilégiés, les navires et la navigation, les marines de guerre et les politiques navales des États, l'exploitation des littoraux et les installations portuaires, les marchandises et les frets, les tonnages et les mesures, les assurances maritimes. Les marins, voyageurs, pèlerins, missionnaires, marchands, tous ces gens de mer occupent une grande place dans cet ouvrage, qui traite de la famille, de la formation et des apprentissages, de la santé et des maladies professionnelles, des croyances et des genres de vie. Ce volume qui fait toute sa place à l'histoire des mentalités s'honore de multiples contributions internationales et de la collaboration de quelques spécialistes, médecin, architecte naval..., issus des gens de mer."

Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired

Author : British Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 954 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired written by British Library and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore ...

Author : Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 638 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore ... written by Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. Library and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Canada's Entrepreneurs

Author : John English
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 144261286X
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Canada's Entrepreneurs written by John English and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with an accessible overview of the rise of entrepreneurialism in Canada, it features portraits of 61 individuals organized thematically. Here, readers will meet a variety of seminal characters: the merchants of the first trading posts and the commercial empire of the St. Lawrence; the industrialists of the Maritimes, Central Canada, and the West; the railway builders and urban developers; and everyone in between."--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Belgisch tijdschrift voor filologie en geschiedenis

Author : Société pour le progrès des études philologiques et historiques (Bruxelles)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1030 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Belgisch tijdschrift voor filologie en geschiedenis written by Société pour le progrès des études philologiques et historiques (Bruxelles) and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Maritime Transport and Migration

Author : Torsten Feys
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0973893435
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Maritime Transport and Migration written by Torsten Feys and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the connection between global maritime and migration networks to better understand the acceleration of the transatlantic migration rate that took place in the latter half of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It brings together the actions of migrants, government regulators, transatlantic shipping companies, and the agents who represented them to determine the motives and opportunities for transatlantic mass-migration. The study is comprised of an introductory chapter, seven essays by maritime scholars, and a conclusion. The subject is approached from three particular discussion points: the rate of development and the accessibility of transport networks for European migrants; the competition between shipping companies and the subsequent influence on migration; and the integration of labour markets in both Europe and America. It concludes by suggesting both maritime and migration historians should merge their respective fields by including the larger frameworks of each discipline to gain further understanding of their disciplines, and identifies the role of ports and shipping companies as crucial to any further study of mass migration.