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Book The Ultimate Engineer

Download or read book The Ultimate Engineer written by Richard Jurek and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-12 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late 1950s to 1976, the U.S. human spaceflight program advanced as it did largely due to the extraordinary efforts of Austrian immigrant George M. Low. Described as the "ultimate engineer" during his career at NASA, Low was a visionary architect and leader from the agency's inception in 1958 to his retirement in 1976. As chief of manned spaceflight at NASA, Low was instrumental in the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. At the end of his NASA career, Low was one of the leading figures in the development of the Space Shuttle in the early 1970s, and he was instrumental in NASA's transition into a post-Apollo world. Chronicling Low's escape from Nazi-occupied Austria to his helping land a man on the moon, The Ultimate Engineer sheds new light on one of the most fascinating and complex personalities of the golden age of U.S. human space travel.

Book Guernsey Breeders  Journal

Download or read book Guernsey Breeders Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book AWI 1

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Department of Agriculture
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 16 pages

Download or read book AWI 1 written by United States. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sisters of Treason

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  • Author : Elizabeth Fremantle
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2014-07-08
  • ISBN : 1476703094
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book Sisters of Treason written by Elizabeth Fremantle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beginning early in Mary Tudor's turbulent reign, [this book] explores the lives of a pair of sisters as dangerously close to the throne as their sister Lady Jane Grey, who died on the executioner's block at the age of 16, after being queen for nine days"--

Book Melodious Accord

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alice Parker
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9780929650432
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book Melodious Accord written by Alice Parker and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Descendants of William Seaman of Washington County  Pennsylvania  and Allied Families

Download or read book Descendants of William Seaman of Washington County Pennsylvania and Allied Families written by Helen Elizabeth Vogt and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Seaman I (1735/1740-1814) moved from New York to New Jersey and then to Amity, Pennsylvania, and married twice. Descendants lived in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri and elsewhere.

Book Chasing Portraits

Download or read book Chasing Portraits written by Elizabeth Rynecki and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoir of one woman’s emotional quest to find the art of her Polish-Jewish great-grandfather, lost during World War II. Moshe Rynecki’s body of work reached close to eight hundred paintings and sculptures before his life came to a tragic end. It was his great-granddaughter Elizabeth who sought to rediscover his legacy, setting upon a journey to seek out what had been lost but never forgotten… The everyday lives of the Polish-Jewish community depicted in Moshe Rynecki’s paintings simply blended into the background of Elizabeth Rynecki’s life when she was growing up. But the art transformed from familiar to extraordinary in her eyes after her grandfather, Moshe’s son George, left behind journals detailing the loss her ancestors had endured during World War II, including Moshe’s art. Knowing that her family had only found a small portion of Moshe’s art, and that many more pieces remained to be found, Elizabeth set out to find them. Before Moshe was deported to the ghetto, he entrusted his work to friends who would keep it safe. After he was killed in the Majdanek concentration camp, the art was dispersed all over the world. With the help of historians, curators, and admirers of Moshe’s work, Elizabeth began the incredible and difficult task of rebuilding his collection. Spanning three decades of Elizabeth’s life and three generations of her family, this touching memoir is a compelling narrative of the richness of one man’s art, the devastation of war, and one woman’s unexpected path to healing.

Book Chief Engineer

Download or read book Chief Engineer written by Erica Wagner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A welcome tribute to the persistence, precision and humanity of Washington Roebling and a love-song for the mighty New York bridge he built.” - The Wall Street Journal Chief Engineer is the first full biography of a crucial figure in the American story--Washington Roebling, builder of the Brooklyn Bridge. One of America's most iconic and recognizable structures, the Brooklyn Bridge is as much a part of New York as the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building. Yet its distinguished builder is too often forgotten--and his life is of interest far beyond his chosen field. It is the story of immigrants, the frontier, the Civil War, the making of the modern world, and a man whose life modeled courage in the face of extreme adversity. Chief Engineer is enriched by Roebling's own eloquent voice, unveiled in his recently discovered memoir, previously thought lost to history. The memoir reveals that his father, John-a renowned engineer who came to America after humble beginnings in Germany-was a tyrannical presence in Roebling's life. It also documents Roebling's time as a young man in the Union Army, where he built bridges to carry soldiers across rivers and fought in pivotal battles from Antietam to Gettysburg. He then married the remarkable Emily Warren Roebling, who played a crucial role in the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, Roebling's grandest achievement-but by no means the only one. Elegantly written with a compelling narrative sweep, Chief Engineer introduces Washington Roebling and his era to a new generation of readers.

Book The Head of the House of Coombe Illustrated

Download or read book The Head of the House of Coombe Illustrated written by Frances Hodgson Burnett and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Head of the House of Coombe is a 1922 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Head of the House of Coombe follows the relationships between a group of pre-World War One English nobles and commoners. It also offers editorial commentary on the political system in prewar Europe that Burnett feels bears some responsibility for the war, and some pointed social commentary

Book The Sex Starved Marriage

Download or read book The Sex Starved Marriage written by Michele Weiner-Davis and published by Simon & Schuster Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Not tonight, darling, I've got a headache...' An estimated one in three couples suffer from problems associated with one partner having a higher libido than the other. Marriage therapist Michele Weiner Davis has written THE SEX-STARVED MARRIAGE to help couples come to terms with this problem. Weiner Davis shows you how to address pyschological factors like depression, poor body image and communication problems that affect sexual desire. With separate chapters for the spouse that's ready for action and the spouse that's ready for sleep, THE SEX-STARVED MARRIAGE will help you re-spark your passion and stop you fighting about sex. Weiner Davis is renowned for her straight-talking style and here she puts it to great use to let you know you're not alone in having marital sex problems. Bitterness or complacency about ho-hum sex can ruin a marriage, breaking the emotional tie of good sex.

Book Brewing in Greater Pittsburgh

Download or read book Brewing in Greater Pittsburgh written by Robert A. Musson and published by Images of America. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Pittsburgh is best known for the many steel mills that have dotted its landscape, it has also been a major center for the brewing of beer and ale throughout its history. Since 1765, when common beer was first brewed for British soldiers at Fort Pitt, the city has produced a tremendous amount of beer to quench the thirst of steelworkers who toiled in the city's mills. Brands like Iron City, Duquesne (or Duke), Rolling Rock, and Stoney's are still known in the area today, while old-timers might remember names like Fort Pitt, E&O, Carnegie, and Dutch Club, among others. Many towns surrounding Pittsburgh, such as McKeesport, Latrobe, and Aliquippa, were also home to breweries that thrived for many years. Through more than 220 historic images, Brewing in Greater Pittsburgh looks at the most prominent brewers in the Greater Pittsburgh area, covering Allegheny, Beaver, Westmoreland, and other neighboring counties.

Book From Cedar Point to the Confederacy

Download or read book From Cedar Point to the Confederacy written by Robert A. Musson and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A travelogue of U.S. Route 250 from Sandusky, Ohio to Richmond, VA., showing nearly 450 images of the road and sights along its course, along with a general history of events that took place along its course, including numerous Civil War battles and the births of two presidents, as well as Thomas Edison and Clark Gable.

Book Brewing Beer in the Buckeye State

Download or read book Brewing Beer in the Buckeye State written by Robert A. Musson and published by Zepp Publications. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Ohioans remember the names Leisy, Erin Brew, P.O.C., Gold Bond, Crystal Rock, Carling Black Label, Burkhardt's, Burger, Souvenir, and Renner Old Oxford Ale when thinking of local beers from their youth. But how many remember White Rock, Bula, Zest, Tuscora, Red Band, American Maid, Old Lockport, or Milt and Gold Beers? Not to mention Zepp, Reno, Perlex, and Hock-Ola beverages from the fourteen dark years of Prohibition? Volume I of Brewing Beer In The Buckeye State is the culmination of more than ten years of research by the author, Robert A. Musson. Building on his previous history of Akron's brewing industry, Brewing Beer In The Rubber City, this new text takes on the industry throughout the entire eastern half of Ohio. Cities covered here include Cleveland, Akron, Youngstown, Ashtabula, Sandusky, Mansfield, East Liverpool, Steubenville, Canton, New Philadelphia, Zanesville, Lancaster, Marietta, and Ironton. The modern era is not forgotten either, as more than 40 brewpubs and microbreweries from the region are included, right up to the end of 2004. All in all, more than 240 brewery sites are chronicled over 342 pages. These span the entire spectrum of the brewing industry, from Nineteenth Century tavern owners who made beer for customers in back rooms to giants such as Carling, which churned out millions of barrels of beer each year and rose to become one of the nation's top five brewers before dwindling into obscurity. Along the way, more than 400 illustrations of buildings, people, and artifacts help to tell the story. In addition, included with the book is a DVD which contains an extended, 737-page version of this book, but in full color and with more than 3000 illustrations of people, advertisements, brewery collectibles, buildings, floor plans, etc. This version is presented as a series of pdf files that can be printed out by the reader if desired. Brewing Beer In The Buckeye State is meant for anyone with an interest in beer, brewing, Ohio history (or history in general), advertising, architecture....or anyone who likes reading about the growth and development of an industry over nearly two centuries, and the people who made that growth happen....especially with some rags-to-riches stories of immigrants who came to America with only dreams and made fortunes through their hard work, innovation, and some luck (both good and bad) as well. In this modern era, it can be refreshing to remember why people have and continue to come to the United States to build new lives.

Book 200 Years of Brewing in Allegheny County

Download or read book 200 Years of Brewing in Allegheny County written by Robert Musson and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial history of the brewing industry in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, focusing primarily on the brewers of PIttsburgh.

Book Readin  Writin  and Route 21

Download or read book Readin Writin and Route 21 written by Robert A. Musson and published by . This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 132-page book detailing the sights and history of U.S. Route 21 on its journey from Cleveland, Ohio to Hunting Island, South Carolina.