Author: Louis C. Hunter
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 732
ISBN-13: 9780813910444
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Traces the development of industrial steam power, explains important technological achievements, and looks at influential inventors, engine builders, and entrepreneurs
Author: Donald C. Jackson
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780806137339
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offers compelling insight into how designer Eastwood battled government bureaucrats, corporate patrons, and fellow hydraulic engineers to build seventeen dams in the western U.S. during the early twentieth century based on his innovative multiple-arch design. Reprint.
Author: Arne Hessenbruch
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-16
Total Pages: 965
ISBN-13: 1134262949
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Reader's Guide to the History of Science looks at the literature of science in some 550 entries on individuals (Einstein), institutions and disciplines (Mathematics), general themes (Romantic Science) and central concepts (Paradigm and Fact). The history of science is construed widely to include the history of medicine and technology as is reflected in the range of disciplines from which the international team of 200 contributors are drawn.
Author: Edward Nell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-09-27
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 1134752334
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines the concept of Transformational Growth from a number of different historical and geographical perspectives. Transformational Growth sees the economy as an evolving system in which the market selects and finances innovations, changing the character of costs and affecting the pattern of market adjustment. This creates the possibility that markets will work differently in particular historical periods. This book explores market adjustments in two distinct historical periods, 1870-1914 and 1945-the present. The book focuses on six countries: USA, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Japan and Argentina. In all cases the earlier period, dominated by craft-based technologies, proves to be the one in which markets adjust through a weakly stabilising price mechanism. By contrast, in the later period, in all cases, with the exception of Argentina, there is no evidence of such a price mechanism, but in its place can be seen a multiplier-accelerator process which, arguably, reflects a change of technology to mass-production.
Author: William B. Meyer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0190212810
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book traces the major exchanges that have occurred since colonial times in the role of weather in life and livelihood in the U.S. The intent is to relate how shifts in ordinary human activities have been influenced and altered the significance of climate patterns -- patterns that have been far more stable than the society experiencing them -- development of weather science where appropriate. At times, persistent features of our climate and recurrent weather have acted as help or hindrance, hazard or resource. And as ways of life in country have changed, these features have become hazard o.
Author: Betsy H. Bradley
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780195090000
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →While tracing the important developments in industrial architecture over a one-hundred-year period, she demonstrates that as the United States became an industrialized nation, the goals pursued in industrial architecture remained straightforward and constant even as the means to achieve them changed.