First published in 2002 as volume 24 in the NASA "Monograph in Aerospace History" series. This study contains photographs and illustrations.

Die Schweiz verfügt über eines der dichtesten Eisenbahnnetze der Welt. Dies ist keine Selbstverständlichkeit: Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wurden in fast allen Industrieländern zahlreiche Eisenbahnstrecken stillgelegt. Der motorisierte Individualverkehr triumphierte über das Massenverkehrsmittel aus dem 19. Jahrhundert. Dennoch blieben bei den Schweizer Eisenbahnen Streckenschliessungen grösseren Stils aus. Das Buch untersucht die Antwort der Schweizerischen Politik auf die vermeintliche Agonie der Eisenbahnen vom Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs bis in die frühen 1980er-Jahre. Die Basis hierzu bildet eine quantitative Analyse der Schweizerischen Eisenbahnwirtschaft, gefolgt von der Darstellung eines umstrittenen Stilllegungsfalles mit Signalwirkung für die gesamtschweizerische Gesetzgebung. Der Politikvollzug, der von der Abkehr von reinen Wirtschaftlichkeitskriterien bei der Eisenbahnsubventionierung und der opportunistischen Ausdehnung der Staatshilfen auf einen grösseren Empfängerkreis geprägt war, bildet einen weiteren Schwerpunkt. Die Darstellung wird durch die Analyse der Triebkräfte hinter dem Wandel der Schweizerischen Bundesbahnen vom gemeinwirtschaftlichen Verwaltungsunternehmen zum ökologischen Massenverkehrsmittel mit einer ausgeprägten Management-Kultur vervollständigt.

Little work has been done to explicate the motivational factors of agency, particularly in cases where an artifact initially deemed ineffective or superfluous becomes an everyday necessity, such as the automobile at the turn of the twentieth century. Farmers saw it as a "devil wagon" but later adopted it for use as an all-around device and power source. What makes a social group change its position about a particular artifact? How did the devil wagon overcome its notoriety to become a prosaic mainstream device? These questions direct the research in this book. While they may have been asked before, author Imes Chiu (PhD, Cornell University) brings a different and refreshing approach to the problem of newness. Preexisting practices and work routines used as explanatory devices have something interesting to say about diffusion strategies and localization measures. This innovative study examines the conversion of users. To understand the motivating factors in mass adoption, the study focuses on perceptions and practices associated with horses and motorcars in three different settings during three different periods. All three cases begin with the motorcar in the periphery: all three end with it achieving ubiquity. This multiple-case design is used for the purpose of theoretical replication. Results in all three cases show that a contrived likeness to its competitor-the horse-contributed to the motorcar's success. The motorcar absorbed the technical, material, structural, and conceptual resources of the technology it displaced. This book, which includes several rare photographs, will be an important resource for those who wish to study the history of transportation and technology adaptation.

First published in 2000 as volume 20 in the NASA "Monograph in Aerospace History" series. This study contains photographs and illustrations.

First published in 1999 as volume 16 in the NASA "Monograph in Aerospace History" series. This study contains photographs and illustrations.

"I will get him a squirrel gun" A few days went by and one morning I got up out of bed before Mom and Dad did. I walked into the living room and quietly sat down. I could hear Mom and Dad talking in their bedroom. I heard Mom say to Dad, "You could buy Tony a good shot gun if you would do it." I heard Dad say back to Mom, "Now I just don't have the money." Mom told him, "It's a sin to lie." Dad said to her, "Well, you go buy him a gun if you can." Then Mom told him. 'I will get him a squirrel gun if it harelips old Billy Hell, you just wait and see if I don't."

First published in 1996 as volume 5 in the NASA "Monograph in Aerospace History" series. This study contains photographs and illustrations.

First published in 1999 as volume 14 in the NASA "Monograph in Aerospace History" series. This study contains photographs and illustrations.

Elinor De Wire has been writing about lighthouses and their keepers since 1972. During that time she found that hundreds of lighthouse animals wandered into her research notes and photo collection. This book is the story of all these cold-nosed, whiskered, wooly, hoofed, horned, slithery, buzzing, feathered, and finned keepers of the lights. Where else would a dog learn to ring a fogbell; a cat go swimming and catch a fish for its supper; or a parrot cuss the storm winds rattling its cage? Who other than a lightkeeper would swim a cow home, tame a baby seal, adopt an orphan alligator, send messages via carrier pigeons, or imagine mermaids coming to visit? The Lightkeepers' Menagerie gathers together animal stories from lighthouses all around the world, tales of happiness and sadness, courage and cowardice, tragedy and comedy, even absurdity. Sometimes, fur, feathers, and fins tell the best tales.

First published in 2003 as volume 30 in the NASA "Monograph in Aerospace History" series. This study contains photographs and illustrations.

First published in 1999 as volume 13 in the NASA "Monograph in Aerospace History" series. This study contains photographs and illustrations.

Geographic Information Systems for Intermodal Transportation: Methods, Models, Applications examines the basic concepts and applications of Geographic Information Systems for Transportation. The book discusses the unique characteristics of each transportation mode-- highway, railway, waterway and airway-as well as the combined intermodal transportation network. The book shows how GIS generates vehicle routes and shorted paths, develops transportation demand models, analyzes spatial data, and how three-dimensional modelling is applied to the intermodal transportation.

First published in 1998 as volume 8 in the NASA "Monograph in Aerospace History" series. This study contains photographs and illustrations.

First published in 1994 in the NASA Monograph in Aerospace History series. From the introduction: "On 25 May 1961 President John F. Kennedy announced to the nation a goal of sending an American safely to the Moon before the end of the decade. This decision involved much study and review prior to making it public, and tremendous expenditure and effort to make it a reality by 1969. Only the building of the Panama Canal rivaled the Apollo program's size as the largest non- military technological endeavor ever undertaken by the United States; only the Manhattan Project was comparable in a wartime setting. The human spaceflight imperative was a direct outgrowth of it; Projects Mercury (at least in its latter stages), Gemini, and Apollo were each designed to execute it. It was finally successfully accomplished on 20 July 1969, when Apollo 11's astronaut Neil Armstrong left the Lunar Module and set foot on the surface of the Moon." Illustrated.

First published in 1995 as volume 4 in the NASA "Monograph in Aerospace History" series. This study contains photographs and illustrations.

First published in 2002 as volume 27 in the NASA "Monograph in Aerospace History" series. This study contains photographs and illustrations.

First published in 2005 as a volume in the NASA "Monograph in Aerospace History" series. This study contains photographs and illustrations.