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| € 17.73 This is the story of our most useful business. It is a medley of mechanics, millionaires, kings, inventors and farmers; and it is intended... € 24.22 € 20.59 Two abortive attempts characterised the sixties of last century in France. As regards the first of these, it was carried out by three men,...
€ 23.27 € 19.78 Industry puts an entirely new face upon the productions of nature. By labour man has subjugated the world, reduced it to his dominion, and... € 12.86 € 10.93 THE METAL PENS OF 1823.--In a badly-constructed and unsanitary manufactory (Mr. James Collins's), at the back of 119 Suffolk Street,...
€ 81.05 Presents nearly 600 concise entries describing the major advances in military technology from prehistory to the present, written by an... € 28.06 The book that helped earn Thomas P. Hughes his reputation as one of the foremost historians of technology of our age and a finalist for the...
€ 24.97 Tells the story of fiber optics, tracing its transformation from a 19th-century parlor trick to the foundation of our global communication... € 22.53 The author compares five primitive life forms from the Burgess Shale of over 500,000,000 years ago to five new technologies invented or...
€ 13.85 The author compares five primitive life forms from the Burgess Shale of over 500,000,000 years ago to five new technologies invented or... € 23.82 The compelling history of the long-sought discovery of ammonia synthesis and its vital role in the modern industrial world.
€ 14.53 € 12.35 How Apollo commander Stafford defused the Cold War in space by leading the way to Soviet/U.S. cooperation € 49.45 Angela Lakwete revisits the myths evoked by Eli Whitney's cottin gin and discovers that gins existe for centuries before his 1794 invention....
€ 42.96 This book examines management failures in America's electric utility industry in the 1960s and 1970s. € 45.07 "A competent and readable account of this debacle, which concentrates on the small research vehicle, DC-X." -- "Times Literary Supplement"
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€ 22.81 In "Faster, Better, Cheaper: Low-Cost Innovation in the U.S. Space Program," Howard E. McCurdy examines NASA's recent efforts to save money...
€ 18.10 A humanistic account of the changing role of technology in society, by a historian and a former Dean of Students and Undergraduate Education... € 33.67 This chronology begins with Benjamin Franklin's kite in 1752 and ends in 2002 with a discussion of new types of vehicles and their fuel...
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