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Book The Builder

Download or read book The Builder written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Engineer

Download or read book The Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineer s Monthly Journal

Download or read book Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineer s Monthly Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Impossible Engineering

Download or read book Impossible Engineering written by Chandra Mukerji and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering--in fact, it was technically impossible according to the standards of its day. Impossible Engineering takes an insightful and entertaining look at the mystery of its success as well as the canal's surprising political significance. The waterway was a marvel that connected modern state power to human control of nature just as surely as it linked the ocean to the sea. The Canal du Midi is typically characterized as the achievement of Pierre-Paul Riquet, a tax farmer and entrepreneur for the canal. Yet Chandra Mukerji argues that it was a product of collective intelligence, depending on peasant women and artisans--unrecognized heirs to Roman traditions of engineering--who came to labor on the waterway in collaboration with military and academic supervisors. Ironically, while Louis XIV and his treasury minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert used propaganda to present France as a new Rome, the Canal du Midi was being constructed with unrecognized classical methods. Still, the result was politically potent. As Mukerji shows, the project took land and power from local nobles, using water itself as a silent agent of the state to disrupt traditions of local life that had served regional elites. Impossible Engineering opens a surprising window into the world of seventeenth-century France and illuminates a singular work of engineering undertaken to empower the state through technical conquest of nature.

Book Engineering Infinity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles Stross
  • Publisher : Solaris
  • Release : 2010-12-28
  • ISBN : 1849972362
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Engineering Infinity written by Charles Stross and published by Solaris. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The universe shifts and changes: suddenly you understand, you get it, and are filled with wonder. That moment of understanding drives the greatest science-fiction stories and lies at the heart of Engineering Infinity. Whether it’s coming up hard against the speed of light – and, with it, the enormity of the universe – realising that terraforming a distant world is harder and more dangerous than you’d ever thought, or simply realizing that a hitchhiker on a starship consumes fuel and oxygen with tragic results, it’s hard science-fiction where a sense of discovery is most often found and where science-fiction’s true heart lies. This exciting and innovative science-fiction anthology collects together stories by some of the biggest names in the field, including Gwyneth Jones, Stephen Baxter and Charles Stross.

Book Engineering

Download or read book Engineering written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The International Steam Engineer

Download or read book The International Steam Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Wisconsin Engineer

Download or read book The Wisconsin Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Building News and Engineering Journal

Download or read book The Building News and Engineering Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 1348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book English Mechanic and World of Science

Download or read book English Mechanic and World of Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book English Mechanic and Mirror of Science

Download or read book English Mechanic and Mirror of Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The True Survivors

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Harris
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2012-02-25
  • ISBN : 1105564010
  • Pages : 117 pages

Download or read book The True Survivors written by John Harris and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-02-25 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The True Survivors is a fictional ethnography about an Anthropologist that travels into the future and ends up studying the first post-apocalyptic state-level society after the fall of man king. The books features photographs of one-of-a-kind metalwork, tools, artwork, and jewelry created by author John Harris to show the material culture of the Lamellain people.