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  • Das große Sperrfeuer der Themse
    Thomas Walter Barber
    Dieses klassische Buch wurde ursprünglich vor Jahrzehnten veröffentlicht als ' The Great Thames Barrage '. Es wurde jetzt von Writat für seine deutschsprachigen Leser ins Deutsche übersetzt. Bei Writat liegt uns die Bewahrung des literarischen Erbes der Vergangenheit sehr am Herzen. Wir haben dieses Buch ins Deutsche übersetzt, damit es heutige und zukünftige Generationen lese...
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    17,79 €

  • French Discovery in an Age of Revolution
    Jim Libby
    The chaos of the French Revolution was quickly followed by the somewhat less chaotic rule of Napoleon Bonaparte. For roughly 25 years, France saw five constitutions; countless warring political factions; governments that included a monarchy, a republic, and an empire; and almost constant warfare with most of Europe. At the same time, the French fought from within, sending thou...
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    72,65 €

  • Digitizing Diagnosis
    Andrew S Lea
    A fascinating history of the first attempts to computerize medical diagnosis.Beginning in the 1950s, interdisciplinary teams of physicians, engineers, mathematicians, and philosophers began to explore the possible application of a new digital technology to one of the most central, and vexed, tasks of medicine: diagnosis. In Digitizing Diagnosis, Andrew Lea examines these effort...
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    67,06 €

  • Technology in Southeast Asian History
    Suzanne Moon
    Explores the role of technology in the larger political and economic fabric of Southeast Asia.In Technology in Southeast Asian History, Suzanne Moon explores the profound entanglement of technology with Southeast Asian politics, social life, economics, and culture over its long history. Moon offers a unique framework for understanding the place of technology in this region and ...
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    51,40 €

  • Salt and the salt industry
    Albert Frederick Calvert
    Salt and the salt industry by Albert Frederick Calvert has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Sinc...
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    23,03 €

  • Der Mensch und die Technik
    Oswald Spengler / Charles Francis Atkinson
    Oswald Spenglers Der Mensch und die Technik enthält eine Reihe von Prognosen, die sich heute, gut achtzig Jahre nachdem das Buch geschrieben wurde, als bemerkenswert treffsicher erweisen. Spengler sah voraus, dass die Industrialisierung zu massiven Umweltproblemen führen muss und dass unzählige Tierarten ausgerottet würden. Er prophezeite ferner, dass Arbeitskraft aus der Dritt...
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    26,62 €

  • Der Mensch und die Technik
    Oswald Spengler / Charles Francis Atkinson
    Oswald Spenglers Der Mensch und die Technik enthält eine Reihe von Prognosen, die sich heute, gut achtzig Jahre nachdem das Buch geschrieben wurde, als bemerkenswert treffsicher erweisen. Spengler sah voraus, dass die Industrialisierung zu massiven Umweltproblemen führen muss und dass unzählige Tierarten ausgerottet würden. Er prophezeite ferner, dass Arbeitskraft aus der Dritt...
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    12,55 €

  • Patent Laws of the Republic of Hawaii
    Hawaii
    Patent Laws of the Republic of Hawaii by Hawaii has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these...
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    19,60 €

  • Party Sweets
    Mary Blake
    Party Sweets by Mary Blake has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made fr...
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    19,52 €

  • The partnership of paint
    Eda A. Oliver
    The partnership of paint by Eda A. Oliver has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books ...
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    19,36 €

  • Replayed
    Henry Lowood
    A leading voice in technology studies shares a collection of essential essays on the preservation of software and history of games.Since the early 2000s, Henry Lowood has led or had a key role in numerous initiatives devoted to the preservation and documentation of virtual worlds, digital games, and interactive simulations, establishing himself as a major scholar in the field o...
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    62,48 €

  • An archaeology of innovation
    Catherine J. Frieman
    This monograph takes a unique archaeological approach to the investigation of innovation and the innovation process. Case studies span the breadth of human history, from our earliest hominin ancestors to the contemporary world. The emphasis is on the social context and temporality of invention, adoption, creativity and resistance. ...
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    35,67 €

  • Making Machines of Animals
    Neal A Knapp
    How the Chicago International Livestock Exposition leveraged the eugenics movement to transform animals into machines and industrialize American agriculture.In 1900, the Chicago International Livestock Exposition became the epicenter of agricultural reform that focused on reinventing animals’ bodies to fit a modern, industrial design. Chicago meatpackers partnered with land-gra...
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    76,21 €

  • The Ghost Racetracks of Portland, Oregon
    Bob Kehoe / Ralph Hunt
    The Portland Speedway, dating back to 1924, stood as the anchor for automobile racing in Portland, Oregon, principally from 1936 until its demise in 2001. Two more racing venues - Jantzen Beach Arena and, for a few years, the horse racing track at Portland Meadows were added. These facilities were located within a one-mile radius of the Speedway. Northwest racing history was ma...
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    29,92 €

  • Technological Internationalism and World Order
    Waqar H. Zaidi
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    53,88 €

  • It Looked Good on Paper
    Bill Fawcett
    A remarkable compendium of wild schemes, mad plans, crazy inventions, and truly glorious disastersEvery phenomenally bad idea seemed like a good idea to someone. How else can you explain the Ford Edsel or the sword pistol--absolutely absurd creations that should have never made it off the drawing board? It Looked Good on Paper gathers together the most flawed plans, half-baked ...
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    14,22 €

  • Age of Auto Electric
    Matthew N. Eisler
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    53,47 €

  • American Illuminations
    David E. Nye
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    27,09 €

  • The Politics of Chemistry
    Agustí Nieto-Galan
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    39,14 €

  • Science for Governing Japan’s Population
    Aya Homei
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    120,17 €

  • Building the French empire, 1600-1800
    Benjamin Steiner
    How did the French rule their colonial overseas possessions dispersed all over the world? This book focuses on local populations and workers in the colonies. Indigenous experts, slaves or indentured servants as well as French engineers and naval officers contributed to the building of the foundation of the French empire. ...
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    35,79 €

  • The Lightning Tamers
    Kathy Joseph
    Science and History Collide: True Stories of the People Who Powered Our WorldIn this physics and engineering chronicle disguised as an electric time-travel adventure, Kathy Joseph, physicist, educator, and creator of the popular Kathy Loves Physics documentary channel on YouTube, shares over 400 years of the history of electricity through the linked breakthroughs of men and wom...
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    13,97 €

  • The Lightning Tamers
    Kathy Joseph
    Science and History Collide: True Stories of the People Who Powered Our WorldIn this physics and engineering chronicle disguised as an electric time-travel adventure, Kathy Joseph, physicist, educator, and creator of the popular Kathy Loves Physics documentary channel on YouTube, shares over 400 years of the history of electricity through the linked breakthroughs of men and wom...
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    19,39 €

  • The Handy Engineering Answer Book
    Aishwary Pawar / DeLean Tolbert Smith / Nicole P Pitterson / Nicole P. Pitterson
    A handy resource on the fundamental facts about engineering for both engineers and non-engineers alike, whether you are exploring engineering for the first time, already have a strong background, or fall anywhere in between. Engineering impacts every aspect of our lives. Bridges,buildings, buses, electrical grids, computers, televisions, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, and virt...
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    59,86 €

  • Consuming Landscapes
    Thomas Zeller
    What we see through our windshields reflects ideas about our national identity, consumerism, and infrastructure.For better or worse, windshields have become a major frame for viewing the nonhuman world. The view from the road is one of the main ways in which we experience our environments. These vistas are the result of deliberate historical forces, and humans have shaped them ...
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    43,36 €

  • The Computer
    David Ferro / Eric Swedin
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    87,33 €

  • Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Stations in Essex
    Paul G. Reyland / Paul M. Hawkins
    Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Stations in Essex The Centenary of Brentwood and Ongar Radio Stations A hundred years ago Guglielmo Marconi was busy setting up telegraph links between the UK and countries across the world and was operating wireless stations in the west of Ireland and in Wales. After WW1 new advances in valves and electronic technology enabled wireless stations to ...
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    15,86 €

  • Coprolite in the News
    Bernard O’Connor
    Between 1843 and 1918, tens of thousands of acres of Britain were dug over in the search for fossils. Pits were dug to excavate a fossil bone bed, some reaching forty feet deep, in cliffs, river banks and fields in Yorkshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Kent. Called ’coprolites’ and thought by many to be fossilised prehist...
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    33,90 €

  • Radio History
    Spurgeon G. 'Spud' Roscoe
    In this sweeping history, author Spurgeon G. Roscoe takes a look at the world of amateur radio in North America and the special role the Halifax Amateur Radio Club (HARC), of which he is a member, played in it, from the time of the World Wars all the way to the present day. Roscoe presents an account that is at once intimate and wide-ranging, covering topics from amateur radio’...
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    53,68 €

  • Between Nature and Society
    Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
    This volume opens the readers’ eyes to the central role of materials in human societies and in the environment by telling the life stories of fifteen materials. In this rich collection of stories, materials are found at the complex interface between nature and society. They are not just atomic structures with a set of properties and behaviors. They capture the attention of nati...
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    120,19 €