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Lee de Forest: King of Radio, Television, and Film
ISBN: 9781461404170 / Angielski / Miękka / 553 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The life-long inventor, Lee de Forest invented the three-element vacuum tube used between 1906 and 1916 as a detector, amplifier, and oscillator of radio waves. Beginning in 1918 he began to develop a light valve, a device for writing and reading sound using light patterns. While he received many patents for his process, he was initially ignored by the film industry. In order to promote and demonstrate his process he made several hundred sound short films, he rented space for their showing; he sold the tickets and did the publicity to gain audiences for his invention. Lee de Forest officially...
The life-long inventor, Lee de Forest invented the three-element vacuum tube used between 1906 and 1916 as a detector, amplifier, and oscillator of ra...
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Changing the Rules: Psychology in the Netherlands 1900 1985
ISBN: 9780521144872 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The history of the social sciences has been marked by frequent and fierce debates on the rules of scientific methodology. Even the most general criteria agreed upon in the natural sciences are emphatically disputed in the social sciences. Presenting the history of psychology in the Netherlands as a case representative of Western social science, this book examines the divisive nature of social methodology more closely. The author scrutinizes published books and articles, as well as archival material and taped interviews, to sketch a history in which psychologists call their colleagues...
The history of the social sciences has been marked by frequent and fierce debates on the rules of scientific methodology. Even the most general criter...
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202,42 |
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Great Inventions That Changed the World
ISBN: 9780470768174 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discover the inventions that have made our world what it is today A great invention opens the door to a new era in human history. The stone axe, for example, invented some 2 million years ago in East Africa, enabled us to enter the human path of endless improvements through inventions. The taming of fire enabled us to cook food as well as leave the warmth of Africa and move to the frigid lands of the North. From the stone axe to the computer and the Internet, this book provides a fascinating tour of the most important inventions and inventors throughout history. You'll discover the... Discover the inventions that have made our world what it is today A great invention opens the door to a new era in human history. The stone ... |
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Electricity in Locomotion: An Account of its Mechanism, its Achievements, and its Prospects
ISBN: 9781107605985 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published during the early part of the twentieth century, the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature were designed to provide concise introductions to a broad range of topics. They were written by experts for the general reader and combined a comprehensive approach to knowledge with an emphasis on accessibility. Electricity in Locomotion by Adam Gowans Whyte was first published in 1911. The text contains an informative account of the role of electricity in the development of various forms of locomotion.
Originally published during the early part of the twentieth century, the Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature were designed to provide concise ...
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145,79 |
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The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
ISBN: 9780226726342 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hardly a week passes without some high-profile court case that features intellectual property at its center. But how did the belief that one could own an idea come about? And how did that belief change the way humankind lives and works? William Rosen, author of Justinian's Flea, seeks to answer these questions and more with The Most Powerful Idea in the World. A lively and passionate study of the engineering and scientific breakthroughs that led to the steam engine, this book argues that the very notion of intellectual property drove not only the invention of the steam...Hardly a week passes without some high-profile court case that features intellectual property at its center. But how did the belief that one could ... |
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The Farming Ladder
ISBN: 9781446512548 / Angielski / Twarda / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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177,77 |
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Hardware, Software; Womenware
ISBN: 9781466370104 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2nd generation computer programmer's memoir of 50+ years commercial development of Information Technology.
2nd generation computer programmer's memoir of 50+ years commercial development of Information Technology.
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39,65 |
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A History of the Logarithmic Slide Rule and Allied Instruments
ISBN: 9781879335523 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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125,43 |
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Communications: An International History of the Formative Years
ISBN: 9780863413308 / Angielski / Miękka / 652 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The history of communications is extensive and this book explains how communications have evolved from the time of Aeschylus's Agamemnon (458 BC) to circa 1940. It discusses the essential factors - technical, political, social, economic and general - which have enabled modern communications to evolve from early primitive stages of development.
The history of communications is extensive and this book explains how communications have evolved from the time of Aeschylus's Agamemnon (458 BC) to c...
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Voyager Tales: Personal Views of the Grand Tour
ISBN: 9781563472527 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1977, Voyager 1 and 2 journeyed to the outer planets, gathering information about Jupiter and Saturn, sending scientists on earth their first close-up photographs of Uranus and Neptune, and collecting a series of images of the sun and its planets. Twenty years later, Voyager Tales presents a collection of interviews from a cross section of the professionals involved in all aspects of the mission.
In 1977, Voyager 1 and 2 journeyed to the outer planets, gathering information about Jupiter and Saturn, sending scientists on earth their first close...
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Innovation and the Communications Revolution: From the Victorian Pioneers to Broadband Internet
ISBN: 9780852962183 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A fascinating account of the origins and development, of the technology that has transformed telecommunications and broadcasting and created the Internet.
A fascinating account of the origins and development, of the technology that has transformed telecommunications and broadcasting and created the Inter...
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315,00 |
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Sir Charles Wheatstone Frs, 1802-1875
ISBN: 9780852961032 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charles Wheatstone was one of the leading electrical engineers of the mid-nineteenth century. This fascinating biography celebrates the bicentenary of his birth, and draws on information about the family business as well as letters, including correspondence with Cooke and Faraday.
Charles Wheatstone was one of the leading electrical engineers of the mid-nineteenth century. This fascinating biography celebrates the bicentenary of...
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315,00 |
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Wireless: The Crucial Decade: History of the British Wireless Industry 1924-34
ISBN: 9780863411885 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The scene to 1924. Technical background. Broadcasting trends, 1924-34 in Britain and Continental Europe. British radio valves, 1924-34. Receiver developments in America, Germany and France. British domestic wireless, 1924-34 - historical background; the trend in receivers; transition; transformation; turning-point. Home construction and kit sets.
The scene to 1924. Technical background. Broadcasting trends, 1924-34 in Britain and Continental Europe. British radio valves, 1924-34. Receiver devel...
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186,38 |
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A History of Control Engineering 1930-1955
ISBN: 9780863412998 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following his book on the origin of control engineering (1800-1930) the author now traces development through the critical period 1930-1955, widely identified as the period of 'classical' control theory. In the 1930s basic automatic control devices were developed and used in process industries, as were servos for the control of aircraft and ships and amplifiers for the telephone system and early computers etc.
Following his book on the origin of control engineering (1800-1930) the author now traces development through the critical period 1930-1955, widely id...
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Poems in Steel: National Socialism and the Politics of Inventing from Weimar to Bonn
ISBN: 9781571812421 / Angielski / Twarda / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The role of National Socialism in the development of German society remains a central question of historical inquiry. This study presents original answers by examining the politics of inventing, a crucial but long ignored problem at the intersection of the history of technology, legal, political, and business history. The analysis of conflicts over the rights of inventors and the meaning of inventing from the 1920s to the 1950s reveals a deep chasm, reaching back to the late nineteenth century, between the forces of capital and big business on one hand and the exponents of intellectual... The role of National Socialism in the development of German society remains a central question of historical inquiry. This study presents original... |
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562,10 |
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The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 4, Eighteenth-Century Science
ISBN: 9781107559738 / Angielski / Miękka / 944 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century.
The fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century.
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173,00 |
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Marconi's New Street Works 1912 - 2012
ISBN: 9780755206933 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Marconi New Street works in Chelmsford, Essex was the world's first purpose built wireless factory and became the world's first electronics factory using mass production techniques. For well over ninety years the huge factory was the centre of the massive Marconi Company Empire that stretched across the world. However, the disastrous collapse of the Marconi Company prompted the abandonment of the huge complex of offices, workshops, laboratories, test areas and manufacturing plant that alone once employed over 10,000 people. When the factory was opened in 1912, the SS Titanic had just sunk...
The Marconi New Street works in Chelmsford, Essex was the world's first purpose built wireless factory and became the world's first electronics factor...
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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
ISBN: 9780143122791 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s, Bell Labs-officially, the research and development wing of AT&T-was the biggest, and arguably the best, laboratory for new ideas in the world. From the transistor to the laser, from digital communications to cellular telephony, it's hard to find an aspect of modern life that hasn't been touched by Bell Labs. In The Idea Factory, Jon Gertner traces the origins of some of the twentieth century's most important inventions and delivers a riveting and heretofore untold chapter of American history. At its heart this is a story...
From its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s, Bell Labs-officially, the research and development wing of AT&T-was the biggest, and a...
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Steel- and Toolmaking Strategies and Techniques Before 1870
ISBN: 9780976915348 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the first volume of the Hand Tools in History series, Davistown Museum curator H. G. Skip Brack takes readers on a journey through the pyrotechnics of ancient and modern ferrous metallurgy. Citing major archaeometallurgists, he explores steel- and toolmaking from the early Iron Age through the Renaissance and then covers the technological innovations that led to the Industrial Revolution, the factory system of mass production, and development of 19th century bulk steelmaking processes. Brack discusses the historical diversity of steelmaking strategies and the important role they played in...
In the first volume of the Hand Tools in History series, Davistown Museum curator H. G. Skip Brack takes readers on a journey through the pyrotechnics...
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Project Plowshare
ISBN: 9780801451256 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inspired by President Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" speech, scientists at the Atomic Energy Commission and the University of California's Radiation Laboratory began in 1957 a program they called Plowshare. Joined by like-minded government officials, scientists, and business leaders, champions of "peaceful nuclear explosions" maintained that they could create new elements and isotopes for general use, build storage facilities for water or fuel, mine ores, increase oil and natural gas production, generate heat for power production, and construct roads, harbors, and canals. By... Inspired by President Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" speech, scientists at the Atomic Energy Commission and the University of California'... |
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