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Big Ben: The Great Clock and the Bells at the Palace of Westminster
ISBN: 9780199585694 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Big Ben covers the history of 'Big Ben', the great clock and bells at Westminster, from the origins of Westminster as the seat of government right up to the celebrations of the Great Clock's 150th anniversary in 2009.
The book begins by taking the reader through a typical visit to the Clock Tower, and then begins the history of the palace of Westminster, covering the fire of 1834, the building of the New Houses of Parliament and development of the clock and the bells, going into detail on their design and installation. The book covers the famous cracking of the current bell Big Ben in... Big Ben covers the history of 'Big Ben', the great clock and bells at Westminster, from the origins of Westminster as the seat of government right up ...
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Der Wahlweise Anrufin Telegraphen- Und Telephonleitungen Und Die Entwicklung Des Fernsprechwesens
ISBN: 9781148667607 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, e...
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15 Dangerously Mad Projects for the Evil Genius
ISBN: 9780071755672 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. UNLEASH YOUR INNER MAD SCIENTIST
"Wonderful. I learned a lot reading the detailed but easy to understand instructions."--BoingBoing This wickedly inventive guide explains how to design and build 15 fiendishly fun electronics projects. Filled with photos and illustrations, 15 Dangerously Mad Projects for the Evil Genius includes step-by-step directions, as well as a construction primer for those who are new to electronics projects. Using easy-to-find components and equipment, this do-it-yourself book shows you how to create a variety of mischievous gadgets, such as a... UNLEASH YOUR INNER MAD SCIENTIST
"Wonderful. I learned a lot reading the detailed but easy to understand instructions."--BoingBoing This wi... |
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The Orgone Accumulator Handbook: Wilhelm Reich's Life-Energy Discoveries and Healing Tools for the 21st Century, with Construction Plans
ISBN: 9780980231632 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 1940s, the physician and natural scientist Dr. Wilhelm Reich claimed discovery of a new form of energy which charged up living organisms and also existed in the open atmosphere and in high vacuum. Reich's laboratory and clinical findings indicated this new energy, which he called the orgone, could be photographed and measured, and had powerful life-positive biological effects. Reich trained other scientists and physicians in his findings, and together they set about applying the inexpensive orgone treatment methods - using a device called the orgone energy accumulator - against various...
In the 1940s, the physician and natural scientist Dr. Wilhelm Reich claimed discovery of a new form of energy which charged up living organisms and al...
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Boston Firsts: 40 Feats of Innovation and Invention That Happened First in Boston and Helped Make America Great
ISBN: 9780807071342 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Boston Firsts is about everything (well, almost ) that happened first in Boston and changed life elsewhere: from the first lighthouse and public library to the first madam and ready-made suit. Boston-based journalist and essayist Lynda Morgenroth has written forty original essays on the city's long history of innovation, from the colonial era to the recent past. These lively takes on Boston's innovative history range from the first use of ether in publicly performed painless surgery to the first school desegregation court case to the one-and only-automatic bargain basement....
Boston Firsts is about everything (well, almost ) that happened first in Boston and changed life elsewhere: from the first lighthouse and publi...
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Models for Capitalizing on Web Engineering Advancements: Trends and Discoveries
ISBN: 9781466600232 / Angielski / Twarda / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The development of successful, usable Web-based systems and applications requires careful consideration of problems, needs, and unique circumstances within and among organizations. Uniting research from a number of different disciplines, Web engineering seeks to develop solutions and uncover new trends in the rapidly growing body of literature on Web system design, modeling, and methodology. Models for Capitalizing on Web Engineering Advancements: Trends and Discoveries contains research on new developments and existing applications made possible by the principles of Web engineering. With...
The development of successful, usable Web-based systems and applications requires careful consideration of problems, needs, and unique circumstances w...
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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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My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
ISBN: 9781612930930 / Angielski / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Serbian inventor NIKOLA TESLA (1857-1943) was a revolutionary scientist who forever changed the scientific fields of electricity and magnetism. Tesla's greatest invention, A/C current, powers almost all of the technological wonders in the world today, from home heating to computers to high-tech robotics. His discoveries gave mankind the television. And his dream of wireless communication came to pass in both the radio and eventually the cell phone. Yet his story remains widely unknown. History buffs, science enthusiasts, backyard inventors, and anyone who has ever dared to dream big will find...
Serbian inventor NIKOLA TESLA (1857-1943) was a revolutionary scientist who forever changed the scientific fields of electricity and magnetism. Tesla'...
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Innovation in Socio-Cultural Context
ISBN: 9780415636223 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text focuses on the rule of social capital in the process of innovation: the social networks and the norms; values and attitudes (such as trust) of the actors; social capital as both bonding and bridging links between actors; and social capital as a feature at all spatial levels, from the single inventor to the transnational corporation.
This text focuses on the rule of social capital in the process of innovation: the social networks and the norms; values and attitudes (such as trust) ...
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Budownictwo ogólne t.1
ISBN: 9788321343341 / Polski / Twarda / 928 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Książka stanowi pierwsza cześć pięciotomowej publikacji pt. "Budownictwo ogólne", która zastąpi wydawane w "Arkadach" dzieło pod tym samym tytułem autorstwa profesora Wacława Żenczykowskiego. Poszczególne rozdziały tego tomu napisali specjaliści z wielu dziedzin budownictwa, będący pracownikami naukowymi w różnych ośrodkach akademickich w Polsce. Podręcznik zawiera aktualną wiedzę na temat materiałów i wyrobów budowlanych, ich produkcji, właściwości oraz zastosowania. W opracowaniu uwzględniono zmiany, jakim w ostatnich latach podlegały przepisy prawne i normy,...
Książka stanowi pierwsza cześć pięciotomowej publikacji pt. "Budownictwo ogólne", która zastąpi wydawane w "Arkadach" dzieło pod tym samym ty...
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Garaże wielostanowiskowe
ISBN: 9788321346212 / Polski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. W pracy w sposób kompleksowy omówiono problematykę dotyczącą kształtowania architektonicznego, projektowania konstrukcji, niezbędnego wyposażenia instalacyjnego oraz zagadnień związanych z technologią realizacji garaży (w szczególności podziemnych w zwartej zabudowie miejskiej). Książka jest adresowana przede wszystkim do studentów wyższych uczelni technicznych, inżynierów projektantów, wykonawców konstrukcji oraz inwestorów.
W pracy w sposób kompleksowy omówiono problematykę dotyczącą kształtowania architektonicznego, projektowania konstrukcji, niezbędnego wyposaże...
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Projektowanie zbiorników żelbetowych t.1
ISBN: 9788301166496 / Polski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Teoria i praktyka projektowania zbiorników żelbetowych wg Eurokodów!
Pierwszy tom dwutomowego, nowoczesnego podręcznika poświęconego projektowaniu zbiorników żelbetowych na materiały sypkie i ciecze, uwzględniającego zalecenia najnowszych norm europejskich. Żelbetowe zbiorniki są obiektami inżynierskimi, których projektowanie ma swoją specyfikę. Kształty, wymiary i wyposażenie zbiorników są podporządkowane technologii. W przypadku silosów jest to technologia składowania materiałów sypkich. W przypadku zbiorników na ciecze, będących elementami ciągów... Teoria i praktyka projektowania zbiorników żelbetowych wg Eurokodów!
Pierwszy tom dwutomowego, nowoczesnego podręcznika poświęconego pr... |
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AutoCAD 2010 Pierwsze kroki
ISBN: 9788324626076 / Polski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. AutoCAD od lat wyznacza standardy w dziedzinie oprogramowania CAD, a książka Andrzeja Pikonia stanowi pierwszą pozycję, po którą powinien sięgnąć każdy początkujący użytkownik środowiska firmy Autodesk. Dlaczego? Ponieważ znajdzie w niej wszystko, co niezbędne, aby szybko i bezboleśnie rozpocząć swoją własną przygodę z najpopularniejszym programem CAD na świecie oraz gruntownie poznać podstawy programu. To z kolei da mu szansę na dołączenie do grupy specjalistów najbardziej poszukiwanych na rynku pracy.
Jak każdą wielką przygodę, również tę trzeba jednak... AutoCAD od lat wyznacza standardy w dziedzinie oprogramowania CAD, a książka Andrzeja Pikonia stanowi pierwszą pozycję, po którą powinien sięgn...
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Twelve Inventions Which Changed America: The Influence of Technology on American Culture
ISBN: 9780761860808 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book describes twelve inventions that transformed the United States from a rural and small-town community to an industrial country of unprecedented power. These inventions demonstrate that no one person is ever responsible for technological advances and that the culture produces a number of people who work together to create each new invention. The book also shows the influences of technology on society and examines the beliefs and attitudes of those who partake in technological advances. The book is both a sociological analysis and a history of technology in the United States in the...
This book describes twelve inventions that transformed the United States from a rural and small-town community to an industrial country of unprecedent...
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The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America
ISBN: 9780143124443 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A sweeping history of the electric light revolution and the birth of modern America
The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but more than any other invention, Thomas Edison's incandescent light bulb marked the arrival of modernity, transforming its inventor into a mythic figure and avatar of an era. In The Age of Edison, award-winning author and historian Ernest Freeberg weaves a narrative that reaches from Coney Island and Broadway to the tiniest towns of rural America, tracing the progress of electric light through the reactions of... A sweeping history of the electric light revolution and the birth of modern America
The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive t... |
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The Hancocks of Marlborough: Rubber, Art and the Industrial Revolution: A Family of Inventive Genius
ISBN: 9780199573554 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book began with the aim of telling the almost forgotten story of Thomas Hancock, the rubber developer who in his own day was acknowledged as one of the great scientific pioneers of the Industrial Revolution. But as research progressed, it was clear that Thomas and his five brothers, the Hancocks of Marlborough, together constituted a unique family which made a tremendous yet virtually unknown contribution to nineteenth-century science and art. Walter designed and ran the first steam carriages to carry passengers on the common roads of England and so began the age of mechanized transport....
This book began with the aim of telling the almost forgotten story of Thomas Hancock, the rubber developer who in his own day was acknowledged as one ...
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Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man
ISBN: 9780767930307 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While working as a fur trapper in Labrador, Canada, Clarence Birdseye encountered an age-old problem: bad food and an unappealing, unhealthy diet. However, he observed that fresh vegetables wetted and left outside in the Arctic winds froze in a way that maintained their integrity after thawing. As a result, he developed his patented Birdseye freezing process and started the company that still bears his name. Birdseye forever changed the way we preserve, store, and distribute food, and the way we eat. While working as a fur trapper in Labrador, Canada, Clarence Birdseye encountered an age-old problem: bad food and an unappealing, unhealthy diet. ... |
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Posthuman Life: Philosophy at the Edge of the Human
ISBN: 9781844658053 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We imagine posthumans as humans made superhumanly intelligent or resilient by future advances in nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science. Many argue that these enhanced people might live better lives; others fear that tinkering with our nature will undermine our sense of our own humanity. Whoever is right, it is assumed that our technological successor will be an upgraded or degraded version of us: Human 2.0. Posthuman Life argues that the enhancement debate projects a human face onto an empty screen. We do not know what will happen and, not...We imagine posthumans as humans made superhumanly intelligent or resilient by future advances in nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technol... |
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My Inventions
ISBN: 9781499165708 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 - 7 January 1943) was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. Tesla's achievements and his abilities as a showman demonstrating his seemingly miraculous inventions made him world-famous.Although he made a considerable amount of money from his patents, he spent a lot financing his own projects. He lived for most of his life in a series of New York hotels although the end of his patent income and...
Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 - 7 January 1943) was a Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist best k...
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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
ISBN: 9780062301239 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs--a real-life Tony Stark--and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new -makers.- Elon Musk spotlights the technology and vision of Elon Musk, the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, who sold one of his Internet companies, PayPal, for $1.5 billion. Ashlee Vance captures the full... In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one... |
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