Originally published in 1904. A detailed history of the life and work of four famous early engineers. Contents Include: Introductory - Sir Cornelius Vermuyden, Drainage of the Fens - Sir Hugh Myddelton, Cutting of the New River - Sir Hugh Myddelton, His Other Engineering and Mining Works, His Death - Captain Perry, Stoppage of Dagenham Breach - The Beginning of Canal Navigation - Life of James Brindley - Brindley's Early Years - Brindley As Master Wheelwright and Millwright - The Duke of Bridgewater, Brindley Employed as Engineer of his Canal - Extension of the Duke's Canal to the Mersey - The Duke's Difficulties, Completion of the Canal, Growth of Manchester - Brindley Constructs the Grand Truck Canal - Brindley's Last Canal, His Death and Character - Pierre-Paul Riquet, Constructor of the Grand Canal of Languedoc. Illustrated. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

This book is written for beginners and students who wish to learn MATLAB. One of the objectives of writing this book is to introduce MATLAB to students in high schools. The material presented is very easy and simple to understand -- written in a gentle manner. The topics covered in the book include arithmetic operations, variables, mathematical functions, complex numbers, vectors, matrices, programming, graphs, solving equations, and an introduction to calculus. In addition, the MATLAB Symbolic Math Toolbox is emphasized in this book. There are also over 230 exercises at the ends of chapters for students to practice. Detailed solutions to all the exercises are provided in the second half of the book. The author has been using MATLAB for the past fifteen years and is the author of the best selling book "MATLAB Guide to Finite Elements". For the paperback edition, visit Amazon.com.

Since the autumn of 2007 Justin Pollard s Eccentric Engineer column in the award-winning E&T magazine has been campaigning to remind engineers of the extraordinary role that their subject has played in human history. This book gathers together three years of those musings, highlighting not simply the most famous engineering tales but the unusual, the erratic, and occasionally the patently insane. In its fifty stories it covers everything from aircraft carriers made of ice, to the origins of the omnibus. We ll toy with Roman turbines, and Greek computers, look at Renaissance hypertext and have arguments with Americans over the shape of our lightning conductors. We ll shake Scotland with earthquakes and build cars out of beans. But most of all we ll celebrate the joys and perils of living in an engineered world."