Download or read book Calculations and Remarks Tending to Prove the Practicability Effects and Advantages of a Plan for the Rapid Conveyance of Goods and Passengers written by George Medhurst and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Calculations and Remarks tending to prove the practicability of a plan for the rapid conveyance of goods and passengers upon an iron road through a tube of 30 feet in area by the power and velocity of air written by George MEDHURST and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Robert Stephenson F R S written by John Cordy Jeaffreson and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Robert Stephenson written by John Cordy Jeaffreson and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Invention and Innovation written by Vaclav Smil and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times-bestselling author, a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts. Included in BILL GATES's 2023 Holiday Reading List Included in Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2023 Included in The Next Big Idea Club’s February 2023 Must-Read Books "Every Smil book that I own is marked up with lots of notes that I take while reading. Invention and Innovation is no exception. Even when I disagree with him, I learn a lot from him...he always strengthens my thinking." —Bill Gates, Gates Notes The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most readable book, Invention and Innovation, the prolific author—a favorite of Bill Gates—pens an insightful and fact-filled jaunt through the history of human invention. Impatient with the hype that so often accompanies innovation, Smil offers in this book a clear-eyed corrective to the overpromises that accompany everything from new cures for diseases to AI. He reminds us that even after we go quite far along the invention-development-application trajectory, we may never get anything real to deploy. Or worse, even after we have succeeded by introducing an invention, its future may be marked by underperformance, disappointment, demise, or outright harm. Drawing on his vast breadth of scientific and historical knowledge, Smil explains the difference between invention and innovation, and looks not only at inventions that failed to dominate as promised (such as the airship, nuclear fission, and supersonic flight), but also at those that turned disastrous (leaded gasoline, DDT, and chlorofluorocarbons). And finally, most importantly, he offers a “wish list” of inventions that we most urgently need to confront the staggering challenges of the twenty-first century. Filled with engaging examples and pragmatic approaches, this book is a sobering account of the folly that so often attends human ingenuity—and how we can, and must, better align our expectations with reality.
Download or read book The Life of Robert Stephenson written by J. C Jeaffreson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
Download or read book Strange and Obscure Stories of New York City written by Tim Rowland and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1948 crime film The Naked City (later a television show) ended with this iconic line “There are eight million stories in the naked city.” Things have not changed either before or since: every era and neighborhood is full of true tales and legends about which even residents are likely to be unaware. Strange And Obscure Stories Of New York City takes the reader on a breathtaking tour of the five boroughs in search of these accounts. Some are eerily fascinating in their own right while others explain how the city became the great metropolis that it is. Before the World Trade Center 9/11 tragedy, the aftermath of a fire aboard the steamboat General Slocum in the East River was the city’s greatest disaster. The 1904 event occurred during an outing for a church group. The loss of life—1,021 out of the 1,358 passengers—devastated the German-America community that inhabited Manhattan’s East Village. To escape bad memories, they relocated to the Upper East Side’s Yorkville, the reason why that neighborhood became celebrated for its German restaurants, stores, and breweries. On July 23, 1886, not long after the Brooklyn Bridge opened, a 23-year-old named Steve Brodie announced that he survived a 150-foot drop from that span into the East River. (A liquor dealer offered to back a saloon that Brodie wanted to open but only if he took the risk). Although there were no witnesses, news of the alleged jump made headlines, with The New York Times supporting Brodie’s claim, and the phrase “pull a Brodie,” meaning to try a dangerous stunt, entering popular parlance. Then too are the unsolved murders, ghost stories, urban legends (are there indeed alligators living in the sewers?), and hidden histories that are all part of this lively and captivating chronicle of the world’s greatest city. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Download or read book Medhurst on Atmospheric Railways written by George Medhurst and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Institution of Civil Engineers written by Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain). Library and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Catalogue of the William Barclay Parsons Collection written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
