Download or read book The Cable written by Gillian Cookson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compelling story of the dramatic efforts to lay the Atlantic telegraph during the 1850s and 1860s, from the first failed attempts to the expedition that finally succeeded. An inconceivably audacious endeavor to overcome the forces of nature in the name of human progress and technology, the laying of the cable was to change forever our means of communication. In this exceptionally researched book, Gillian Cookson reveals the people who dared, lost and profited from this vital progression.
Download or read book Maybelle the Cable Car written by Virginia Lee Burton and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1997-03-31 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maybelle was a cable car a San Francisco cable car. . . She rang her gong and sang her song from early morn till late at night. . . . By recounting the actual events in San Francisco's effort to keep the city's cable cars running, this classic story illustrates how the voice of the people can be heard in the true spirit of democracy. Virginia Lee Burton's original art for Maybelle the Cable Car was retrieved from the archives of the San Francisco Public Library to re-create this edition with all the vibrant charm of the original, which was published in 1952.
Download or read book The Cable Car Book written by Charles A. Smallwood and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1983 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book tells the history of the cable car in the San Francisco area. From the beginnings of the concept by Andrew Hallidie through the cable car companies and their various lines, the history has many illustrations. Appendices. (jvl).
Download or read book Norah Gaughan s Knitted Cable Sourcebook written by Norah Gaughan and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking stitch dictionary from a cable master, featuring 150 cable stitch patterns and fifteen garment patterns to test your skills. This guide for the modern knitter presents more than 150 new and innovative cable stitch patterns ranging from basic to complex and offers enlightening insight into how cables are engineered, how knitters can design their own, and how knitters can mix and match cables in a knitting pattern. Teacher, author, and master knitter Norah Gaughan shares her design principles and offers clear cable-making instruction throughout, always in a conversational, easy-to-understand voice that proceeds naturally, as one cable idea leads to the next. Master the art of cable knitting, then test your newfound skills with the fifteen garment patterns for wraps, sweaters, and accessories.
Download or read book Cable Cowboy written by Mark Robichaux and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-10-31 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inside look at a cable titan and his industry John Malone, hailed as one of the great unsung heroes of our age by some and reviled by others as a ruthless robber baron, is revealed as a bit of both in Cable Cowboy. For more than twenty-five years, Malone has dominated the cable television industry, shaping the world of entertainment and communications, first with his cable company TCI and later with Liberty Media. Written with Malone's unprecedented cooperation, the engaging narrative brings this controversial capitalist and businessman to life. Cable Cowboy is at once a penetrating portrait of Malone's complex persona, and a captivating history of the cable TV industry. Told in a lively style with exclusive details, the book shows how an unassuming copper strand started as a backwoods antenna service and became the digital nervous system of the U.S., an evolution that gave U.S. consumers the fastest route to the Internet. Cable Cowboy reveals the forces that propelled this pioneer to such great heights, and captures the immovable conviction and quicksilver mind that have defined John Malone throughout his career.
Download or read book Wire and Cable for Electronics written by Neil Sclater and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1991 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blue Skies written by Patrick Parsons and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-05 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cable television is arguably the dominant mass media technology in the U.S. today. Blue Skies traces its history in detail, depicting the important events and people that shaped its development, from the precursors of cable TV in the 1920s and '30s to the first community antenna systems in the 1950s, and from the creation of the national satellite-distributed cable networks in the 1970s to the current incarnation of "info-structure" that dominates our lives. Author Patrick Parsons also considers the ways that economics, public perception, public policy, entrepreneurial personalities, the social construction of the possibilities of cable, and simple chance all influenced the development of cable TV. Since the 1960s, one of the pervasive visions of "cable" has been of a ubiquitous, flexible, interactive communications system capable of providing news, information, entertainment, diverse local programming, and even social services. That set of utopian hopes became known as the "Blue Sky" vision of cable television, from which the book takes its title. Thoroughly documented and carefully researched, yet lively, occasionally humorous, and consistently insightful, Blue Skies is the genealogy of our media society.
Download or read book A Thread Across the Ocean written by John Steele Gordon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the successful laying of a cable across the Atlantic Ocean in 1866, exploring the physical, financial, and technological challenges of the project and assessing the impact of the cable on the course of twentieth-century history.
Download or read book Cable written by Robert Weinberg and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2018-04-25 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Cable (1993) #79-96. Revolution rocks Cables world! When three witches appear with dire warnings, Cable must unravel the riddle of two warring alternate futures Harmony and the Ranshi Empire and discover his critical role in their creation! And when a sadistic body-hopping killer strikes, Cable must battle Domino and Irene Merryweather! Can he defeat his true foe without killing his friends? Cables sister, Rachel Summers, resurfaces in the timestream, but a rescue effort may cost him dearly and leave Cable unable to face the vast and manipulative Dark Sisterhood! Plus: When the Brotherhood strikes, a tragic death forces Nathan to reflect on what Xaviers dream truly means to him, and to question his place in the X-Men. Novelist Robert Weinbergs run is collected in full!
Download or read book The Very Easy Guide to Cable Knitting written by Lynne Watterson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable introduction to all kinds of cable stitches, from simple mock cables to intricate interwoven plaits.
Download or read book The Cable Car in America written by George Woodman Hilton and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a treatise on passenger transport using wire rope traction for carriers operating on rail, popularly cable cars or street railways. The system is described. There are extensive photographs and drawings of components, particularly, carriers, grips, brakes, stationary drives, and the haulage ropes. System design, construction, operation and maintenance are covered in detail along with the powerhouses and drive machinery. Cable car economics is covered for principal cities in America. Fully illustrated with photographs and drawings. Bibliography. (CFD).
Download or read book Guide to Cables and Cable Management written by The Institution of Engineering and Technology and published by Electrical Regulations. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Guide is an authoritative guide to all types of cables used in electrical work and good cable management practice. It provides clear information on the classes, sizes and types of cable, detailing appropriate and common applications and information on fire performance, accreditation and cable marking and IP ratings.
Download or read book Alive at Work written by Daniel M. Cable and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poll after poll has confirmed that an astonishing number of workers are disengaged from their work. Why is this happening? And how can we fix the problem? In this bold, enlightening book, social psychologist and professor Daniel M. Cable takes leaders into the minds of workers and reveals the surprising secret to restoring their zest for work. Disengagement isn't a motivational problem, it's a biological one. Humans aren't built for routine and repetition. We're designed to crave exploration, experimentation, and learning--in fact, there's a part of our brains, which scientists have coined "the seeking system," that rewards us for taking part in these activities. But the way organizations are run prevents many of us from following our innate impulses. As a result, we shut down. Things need to change. More than ever before, employee creativity and engagement are needed to win. Fortunately, it won't take an extensive overhaul of your organizational culture to get started. With small nudges, you can personally help people reach their fullest potential. Alive at Work reveals: How to encourage people to bring their best selves to work and use their greatest strengths to help your organization flourish How to build creative environments that motivate people to share ideas, work smarter, and embrace change How to enhance people's connection to their work and your customers How to create personalized experiences that help people feel a deeper sense of purpose Filled with fascinating stories from the author's extensive research, Alive at Work is the inspirational guide that you need to tap into the passion, creativity, and purpose fizzing beneath the surface of every person who falls under your leadership.
Download or read book Cyrus Field s Big Dream written by Mary Morton Cowan and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NSTA Best STEM Book Explore the extraordinary achievement of Cyrus Field and one of the greatest engineering feats of the 19th century: laying a transatlantic telegraph cable to create instant communication between two continents. Cyrus Field had a big dream to connect North America and the United Kingdom with a telegraph line, which would enable instant communication. In the mid-1800s, no one knew if it was possible. That didn't dissuade Cyrus, who set out to learn about undersea cables and built a network of influential people to raise money and create interest in his project. Cyrus experienced numerous setbacks: many years of delays and failed attempts, millions of dollars lost, suspected sabotage, technological problems, and more. But Cyrus did not give up and forged ahead, ultimately realizing his dream in the summer of 1866. Mary Morton Cowan brilliantly captures Cyrus's life and his steadfast determination to achieve his dream.
Download or read book Change to Strange written by Daniel M. Cable and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2007-04-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To achieve sustained competitive advantage, you must create and deliver something that’s valuable, rare, and hard to imitate–and you can’t do that with a run-of-the-mill workforce. Your workforce needs to be strikingly different, obsessively focused on delivering on your unique value proposition. Compared with everyone else’s workforce, your people need to be downright strange! This book is about everything it takes to build a workforce that’s strange and extraordinary enough to execute your most powerful strategies and your unique value proposition. It’s about understanding exactly how your workforce needs to be different...creating an end-to-end Strange Workforce Value Chain...implementing workforce systems that support your unique goals...establishing detailed metrics based on what makes you unique...using those metrics to drive clarity throughout your entire organization, and steer it toward success. If you’re tasked with executing strategy through people, and “balanced scorecards” and “strategy maps” just haven’t been enough, take your next and greatest leap forward: make the Change to Strange. · Why “normal” workforces just won’t cut it anymore Everyone says their people make the difference. Most everyone’s wrong. · Create your strange workforce in four steps Imagine, pinpoint your gaps, prioritize, and act. · What your customers must notice for you to win Link your real performance drivers to specific workforce deliverables. · Rearchitect your workforce to break from the pack Organize to get strategic results from the right people. · Leverage the magic of measurement Implement metrics that work–and keep them working.
Download or read book Cable Compliance written by J. Kerley and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cable and Satellite Television Industries written by Patrick Parsons and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 1998 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of cable and satellite delivered television is constantly evolving and changing with new technology. These new technologies, especially the transition to digital distribution, are altering the world of television. The momentous results of these changes can be seen in the convergence of communications markets and services. This is the only book on the market that successfully captures the scope and detail of these developments. It examines the convergence and competition of emerging television industries both domestically and internationally. This book's clarity and comprehensibility make it accessible to readers without a background in these areas. Also, current employees in the industry will benefit from the broad based topics of the industry that are explored in this book. These topics include chapters on history, technology, industry structure, industry programming and services, daily operations, law and policy, international activities, and social issues. Also included is a detailed discussion of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, as well as other legal issues that are crucial to a clear understanding of the industry. Ultimately this book is a detailed review of where cable and satellite has come from, what it is like today, where it is headed and why, and how it relates to other media. Industry gurus and novices alike. Part of the Allyn & Bacon Series inMass Communication.
