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At Home in Space: The Late Seventies Into the Eighties
ISBN: 9781441988096 / Angielski / Miękka / 481 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume, like the others, not only focuses upon the individual missions within the decade but also upon key challenges facing human space exploration at specific points within those years - from the problems of simply breathing and eating in space to the challenges of venturing outside in a pressurized spacesuit, the development of newer and better space toilets, and the difficulties of locomotion on the Moon. The Eighties was a time when traveling into space far more commonplace. Examining in detail the American and Soviet fronts, Ben Evans gives a comprehensive analysis of the varying...
This volume, like the others, not only focuses upon the individual missions within the decade but also upon key challenges facing human space explorat...
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152,93 |
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The Mismapping of America
ISBN: 9781580463027 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Mismapping of America presents and analyzes the significant cartographic errors that have shaped the history of the United States. Perhaps the most blatant error is the very name -America, - that honors Amerigo Vespucci, who not only never set foot on North American soil, but also played no significant role in the discovery of South America. The appearance of the name -America- imprinted on a map ensured its permanence. Other significant errors explored in The Mismapping of America include Giovanni da Verrazzano's misinterpretation of Pamlico or Albermarle Sound for the Pacific Ocean,...
The Mismapping of America presents and analyzes the significant cartographic errors that have shaped the history of the United States. Perhaps the mos...
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113,04 |
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A Brief History of the Age of Steam
ISBN: 9781845295530 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Covers the real story behind the Industrial Revolution. This title reveals not just the lives of the great inventors such as Watts, Stephenson and Brunel but also tells a narrative that reaches from the US to the expansion of China, India and South America and shows how the steam engine changed the world.
Covers the real story behind the Industrial Revolution. This title reveals not just the lives of the great inventors such as Watts, Stephenson and Bru...
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130,29 |
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The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry and Invention
ISBN: 9781845951351 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Some days change the world. Monday, July 25, 1698 was one of them. In London, a clerk at the Great Seal Patent Office granted patent number 356 and steam power was born. But why did steam power happen when it did? And why was it Great Britain and her onetime North American colonies that staked out a technical and commercial lead?
Some days change the world. Monday, July 25, 1698 was one of them. In London, a clerk at the Great Seal Patent Office granted patent number 356 and st...
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102,85 |
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Steam on the Farm : A History of Agricultural Steam Engines 1800 to 1950
ISBN: 9781847970527 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the beginning of the 19th centurythe great age of steam, to the end of World War II, this book traces the history and development of agricultural steam power use, considers how it was actually used. It demonstrates how steam power was used in agriculture for threshing, ploughing and land drainage.The development is considered of all the different types of steam engines and equipment, including stationary and portable engines, traction engines, rotary cultivators, and steam diggers. This guide also pays attention to the people who operated the new machines, and to the activities of the...
From the beginning of the 19th centurythe great age of steam, to the end of World War II, this book traces the history and development of agricultural...
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102,65 |
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Alan Turing and his Contemporaries: Building the world's first computers
ISBN: 9781906124908 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Secret wartime projects in code-breaking, radar and ballistics produced a wealth of ideas and technologies that kick-started the development of digital computers. This is the story of the people and projects that flourished in the post-war period. By 1955 computers had begun to appear in the market-place. The Information Age was dawning and Alan Turing and his contemporaries held centre stage. Their influence is still discernable deep down within today's hardware and software.
Secret wartime projects in code-breaking, radar and ballistics produced a wealth of ideas and technologies that kick-started the development of digita...
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156,69 |
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Official Catalogue of the Industrial Department
ISBN: 9781108067157 / Angielski / Miękka / 540 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This official catalogue, reissued here in its updated third edition, appeared in 1862 to accompany London's International Exhibition of that year. Held from May to November in South Kensington, on a site now occupied by the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum, the exhibition served to showcase the progress that had been made in a diverse range of crafts, trades and industries since the Great Exhibition of 1851. Over 6 million visitors came to view the wares of more than 28,000 exhibitors from Britain, her empire and beyond. The catalogue contains brief entries for participants,...
This official catalogue, reissued here in its updated third edition, appeared in 1862 to accompany London's International Exhibition of that year. Hel...
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365,98 |
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Breaking the Chains of Gravity: The Story of Spaceflight before NASA
ISBN: 9781472911247 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. NASA's history is a familiar story, culminating with the agency successfully landing men on the moon in 1969, but its prehistory is an important and rarely told tale. America's space agency drew together some of the best minds the non-Soviet world had to offer. At the end of World War II, Wernher von Braun escaped Nazi Germany and came to America where he began developing missiles for the United States Army. The engineer behind the V-2 rocket, von Braun dreamt of sending rockets into space. Ten years later his Jupiter rocket was the only one capable of launching a satellite into... NASA's history is a familiar story, culminating with the agency successfully landing men on the moon in 1969, but its prehistory is an impor... |
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56,54 |
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Of a Fire on the Moon
ISBN: 9780553390612 / Angielski / Miękka / 463 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For many, the moon landing was the defining event of the twentieth century. So it seems only fitting that Norman Mailer the literary provocateur who altered the landscape of American nonfiction wrote the most wide-ranging, far-seeing chronicle of the Apollo 11 mission. A classic chronicle of America s reach for greatness in the midst of the Cold War, Of a Fire on the Moon compiles the reportage Mailer published between 1969 and 1970 in Life magazine: gripping firsthand dispatches from inside NASA s clandestine operations in Houston and Cape Kennedy; technical insights into the...
For many, the moon landing was the defining event of the twentieth century. So it seems only fitting that Norman Mailer the literary provocateur who a...
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82,93 |
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Wings In Orbit: Scientific and Engineering Legacies of the Space Shuttle
ISBN: 9781480285965 / Angielski / Miękka / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This publication "Authoritatively documents the many accomplishments of NASA's Space Shuttle Program from its origins to the present. Beginning with a Foreword by astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen, this compelling book provides clear, accurate, and authentic accounts from NASA's best subject matter experts, including aerospace engineers who worked with the shuttle program, and leading experts from the science and academic communities. The book captures the passion of those who devoted their energies to the program's success for more than three decades. It focuses on their science and...
This publication "Authoritatively documents the many accomplishments of NASA's Space Shuttle Program from its origins to the present. Beginning with a...
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114,74 |
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Taming Liquid Hydrogen: The Centaur Upper Stage Rocket, 1958-2002
ISBN: 9781493586301 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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79,12 |
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Chariots for Apollo: A History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft
ISBN: 9781493625291 / Angielski / Miękka / 526 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Apollo was America's program to land men on the moon and get them safely back to the earth. In May 1961 President Kennedy gave the signal for planning and developing the machines to take men to that body. This decision, although bold and startling at the time, was not made at random nor did it lack a sound engineering base. Subcommittees of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), predecessor of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), had regularly surveyed aeronautical needs and pointed out problems for immediate resolution and specific areas for advanced...
Apollo was America's program to land men on the moon and get them safely back to the earth. In May 1961 President Kennedy gave the signal for planning...
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94,95 |
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Wingless Flight: The Lifting Body Story
ISBN: 9781493625697 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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90,99 |
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Essays on the History of Transportation and Technology
ISBN: 9781938228810 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Within these twelve essays, Kemp describes and analyzes nineteenth century improvements in building materials such as iron, steel, and cement; roads and bridges, especially the evolution of the suspension bridge; canals and navigable rivers, including the Ohio River and its tributaries; and water supply systems.
Within these twelve essays, Kemp describes and analyzes nineteenth century improvements in building materials such as iron, steel, and cement; roads a...
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188,43 |
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Ambassadors from Earth: Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft
ISBN: 9780803249233 / Angielski / Miękka / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ambassadors from Earth reminds us that our first mad scrambles to reach orbit, the moon, and the planets were littered with enough histrionics and cliff-hanging turmoil to rival the most far-out sci-fi film. But it all really happened Drawing on original interviews with key players and bolstered by previously unpublished photographs, journal excerpts, and primary source documents, Jay Gallentine delivers a quirky and unforgettable look at the lives and legacy of the people who conceived, built, and guided our first unmanned spacecraft and planetary probes. From the... Ambassadors from Earth reminds us that our first mad scrambles to reach orbit, the moon, and the planets were littered with enough histrioni... |
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The Red Rockets' Glare: Spaceflight and the Russian Imagination, 1857-1957
ISBN: 9781107639324 / Angielski / Miękka / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Red Rockets Glare is the first academic study on the birth of the Soviet space program and one of the first social histories of Soviet science. Based on many years of archival research, the book situates the birth of cosmic enthusiasm within the social and cultural upheavals of Russian and Soviet history. Asif A. Siddiqi frames the origins of Sputnik by bridging imagination with engineering seeing them not as dialectic, discrete, and sequential but as mutable, intertwined, and concurrent. Imagination and engineering not only fed each other but were also co-produced by key actors who...
The Red Rockets Glare is the first academic study on the birth of the Soviet space program and one of the first social histories of Soviet science. Ba...
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The Life of Robert Stephenson, F.R.S.: With Descriptive Chapters on Some of His Most Important Professional Works
ISBN: 9781108070744 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Relying on incremental experiment rather than leaps into the unknown, Robert Stephenson (1803 59) forged an influential career as a highly respected railway and civil engineer. From the steam locomotive Rocket to the London and Birmingham Railway and the Britannia Bridge, his work helped to consolidate the foundations of the modern engineering profession. Based on the first-hand testimony of relatives and contemporaries as well as correspondence and official records, this 1864 biography by John Cordy Jeaffreson (1831 1901), published only five years after Stephenson's death, tells the story...
Relying on incremental experiment rather than leaps into the unknown, Robert Stephenson (1803 59) forged an influential career as a highly respected r...
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260,69 |
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The Life of Robert Stephenson, F.R.S.: With Descriptive Chapters on Some of His Most Important Professional Works
ISBN: 9781108070751 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Relying on incremental experiment and practice rather than individual leaps into the unknown, Robert Stephenson (1803 59) forged an influential career as a highly respected railway and civil engineer. From the steam locomotive Rocket to the London and Birmingham Railway and the Britannia Bridge, his work helped to consolidate the foundations of the modern engineering profession. Based on the first-hand testimony of relatives and contemporaries as well as correspondence and official records, this 1864 biography by John Cordy Jeaffreson (1831 1901), published only five years after Stephenson's...
Relying on incremental experiment and practice rather than individual leaps into the unknown, Robert Stephenson (1803 59) forged an influential career...
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260,69 |
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The International Exhibition of 1862: Volume 4, Foreign Division: The Illustrated Catalogue of the Industrial Department
ISBN: 9781108067317 / Angielski / Miękka / 778 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Replete with detailed engravings, this four-volume catalogue was published to accompany the International Exhibition of 1862. Held in South Kensington from May to November, the exhibition showcased the progress made in a diverse range of crafts, trades and industries since the Great Exhibition of 1851. Over 6 million visitors came to view the wares of more than 28,000 exhibitors from Britain, her empire and beyond. Featuring explanatory notes and covering such fields as mining, engineering, textiles, printing and photography, this remains an instructive resource for social and economic...
Replete with detailed engravings, this four-volume catalogue was published to accompany the International Exhibition of 1862. Held in South Kensington...
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561,51 |
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The International Exhibition of 1862: Volume 3, Colonial and Foreign Divisions: The Illustrated Catalogue of the Industrial Department
ISBN: 9781108067300 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Replete with detailed engravings, this four-volume catalogue was published to accompany the International Exhibition of 1862. Held in South Kensington from May to November, the exhibition showcased the progress made in a diverse range of crafts, trades and industries since the Great Exhibition of 1851. Over 6 million visitors came to view the wares of more than 28,000 exhibitors from Britain, her empire and beyond. Featuring explanatory notes and covering such fields as mining, engineering, textiles, printing and photography, this remains an instructive resource for social and economic...
Replete with detailed engravings, this four-volume catalogue was published to accompany the International Exhibition of 1862. Held in South Kensington...
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416,12 |
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