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Séries : livres de la série Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
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Engineering Victory
Thomas F Army
- Livre broché | Anglais | Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
- Superior engineering skills among Union soldiers helped ensure victory in the Civil War. Engineering Victory brings a fresh approach to the question o... Savoir plus
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Leonardo to the Internet
Thomas J Misa
- Livre broché | Anglais | Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
- Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innov... Savoir plus
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Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn
Robert Martello
- Livre broché | Anglais | Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
- Paul Revere's ride to warn the colonial militia of the British march on Lexington and Concord is a legendary contribution to the American Revolution. ... Savoir plus
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Stronger Than a Hundred Men
Terry S Reynolds
- Livre broché | Anglais | Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
- Like many apparently simple devices, the vertical water wheel has been around for so long that it is taken for granted. Yet this "picturesque artifact... Savoir plus
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Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation
Rayvon Fouche
- Livre broché | Anglais | Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
- According to the stereotype, late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century inventors, quintessential loners and supposed geniuses, worked in splendid is... Savoir plus
49,95 €49,95 € -
Faxed
Jonathan Coopersmith
- Livre broché | Anglais | Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
- Faxed is the first history of the facsimile machine--the most famous recent example of a tool made obsolete by relentless technological innovation. Jo... Savoir plus
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American Iron, 1607-1900
Robert B Gordon
- Livre broché | Anglais | Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology | n° 19
- Originally published in 1996. By applying their abundant natural resources to ironmaking early in the eighteenth century, Americans soon made themselv... Savoir plus
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Authority, Liberty, and Automatic Machinery in Early Modern Europe
Otto Mayr
- Livre broché | Anglais | Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology | n° 8
- Perhaps never in history has society been so fascinated with a single machine as when, in early modern Europe, the clock evolved into a major cultural... Savoir plus
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Steam Laundries
Arwen P Mohun
- Livre broché | Anglais | Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology | n° 25
- Laundries were once ubiquitous in British and American cities--products of the same historical process that created steel mills and railroads. Unlike ... Savoir plus
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Inventing the Cotton Gin
Angela Lakwete
- Livre broché | Anglais | Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
- "The cotton gin animates the American imagination in unique ways. It evokes no images of antique machinery or fluffy fiber but rather scenes of victim... Savoir plus
56,45 €56,45 € -
Leonardo to the Internet
Thomas J Misa
- Livre broché | Anglais | Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
- Now updated -- A comprehensive, 500-year history of technology in society. Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between tec... Savoir plus
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The Tablet Computer
Elizabeth R Petrick
- Livre broché | Anglais | Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
- A history of the ideas behind a device we thought would change everything. Tablet computers appear commonplace today, yet for decades they represented... Savoir plus
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Making Tobacco Bright
Barbara Hahn
- Livre broché | Anglais | Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
- In her sweeping history of the American tobacco industry, Barbara Hahn traces the emergence of the tobacco plant's many varietal types, arguing that t... Savoir plus
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Between Human and Machine
David A Mindell
- Livre broché | Anglais | Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
- Today, we associate the relationship between feedback, control, and computing with Norbert Wiener's 1948 formulation of cybernetics. But the theoretic... Savoir plus
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Aluminum Upcycled
Carl A Zimring
- Livre relié | Anglais | Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
- Tracing the benefits--and limitations--of repurposing aluminum. Besides being the right thing to do for Mother Earth, recycling can also make money--p... Savoir plus
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The Draining of the Fens
Eric H Ash
- Livre broché | Anglais | Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
- How landowners, drainage projectors, and investors worked with the Crown to transform England's waterlogged Fens. 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Tit... Savoir plus
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Transforming Computer Technology
Arthur L Norberg, Judy E O'Neill
- Livre broché | Anglais | Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology | n° 18
- Over the course of several decades, the Pentagon's Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) helped transform computing from a cumbersome enterp... Savoir plus
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Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922
Susan J Douglas
- Livre broché | Anglais | Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology | n° 9
- Based on contemporary sources, the widely acclaimed history of early radio. Such organizations as AT&T, General Electric, and the U.S. Navy played maj... Savoir plus
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All the Modern Conveniences
Maureen Ogle
- Livre broché | Anglais | Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology | n° 20
- As any American who has traveled abroad knows, the American home contains more, and more elaborate, plumbing than any other in the world. Indeed, Amer... Savoir plus
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Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865-1945
William M McBride
- Livre broché | Anglais | Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology | n° 27
- Navies have always been technologically sophisticated, from the ancient world's trireme galleys and the Age of Sail's ships-of-the-line to the dreadno... Savoir plus
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Technology of Orgasm
Rachel P Maines
- Livre broché | Anglais | Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology | n° 24
- Winner of the Herbert Feis Prize from the American Historical Association Winner of the AFGAGMAS Biennial Book AwardWinner of the Science Award from t... Savoir plus
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The Telegraph in America, 1832-1920
David Hochfelder
- Livre relié | Anglais | Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
- A complete history of how the telegraph revolutionized technological practice and life in America. Telegraphy in the nineteenth century approximated t... Savoir plus
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What Engineers Know and How They Know It
Walter G Vincenti
- Livre broché | Anglais | Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology | n° 11
- To solve their design problems engineers draw in a vast body of knowledge about how things work. This problem-solving knowledge may appear mundane or ... Savoir plus
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Faxed
Jonathan Coopersmith
- Livre relié | Anglais | Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology
- The intriguing story of the rise and fall--and unexpected persistence--of the fax machine illustrates the close link between technology and culture. C... Savoir plus
76,95 €76,95 €