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The First Exposition of Conservation and Its Builders; an Official History of the National Conservation Exposition, Held at... The First Exposition of Conservation and Its Builders; an Official History of the National Conservation Exposition, Held at Knoxville, Tenn., in 1913 and of Its Forerunners, the Appalachian Expositions of 1910-11, Embracing a Review of the Conservation... (Hardcover)
William M. Goodman, Gifford 1865-1946 Pinchot, Don Carlos Ellis
R1,040 Discovery Miles 10 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Mechanics IUTAM USNC/TAM - A History of People, Events, and Communities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Carl T. Herakovich Mechanics IUTAM USNC/TAM - A History of People, Events, and Communities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Carl T. Herakovich
R2,264 R2,019 Discovery Miles 20 190 Save R245 (11%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book provides a detailed history of the United States National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNC/TAM) of the US National Academies, the relationship between the USNC/TAM and IUTAM, and a review of the many mechanicians who developed the field over time. It emphasizes the birth and growth of USNC/TAM, the birth and growth of the larger International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM), and explores the work of mechanics from Aristotle to the present. Written by the former Secretary of USNC/TAM, Dr. Carl T. Herakovich of the University of Virginia, the book profiles luminaries of mechanics including Galileo, Newton, Bernoulli, Euler, Cauchy, Prandtl, Einstein, von Karman, Timoshenko, and in so doing provides insight into centuries of scientific and technologic advance.

Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian England (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Stefan Fisher-Hoyrem Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian England (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Stefan Fisher-Hoyrem
R1,643 Discovery Miles 16 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This open access book draws on conceptual resources ranging from medieval scholasticism to postmodern theory to propose a new understanding of secular time and its mediation in nineteenth-century technological networks. Untethering the concept of secularity from questions of 'religion' and 'belief', it offers an innovative rethinking of the history of secularisation that will appeal to students, scholars, and everyone interested in secularity, Victorian culture, the history of technology, and the temporalities of modernity.

Agent Orange - The Failure of Science, Policy and Common Sense (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Alvin L. Young Agent Orange - The Failure of Science, Policy and Common Sense (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Alvin L. Young
R3,905 Discovery Miles 39 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book tells the story of Agent Orange, its usage and the policies that surround it. Agent Orange contains a contaminant known as TCDD. It was the most widely used defoliant from 1965 - 1970 and became one of three major tactical herbicides used in Vietnam. More than 45 major health studies were conducted with Vietnam veterans from the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Korea seeking a relationship between veterans' health and TCDD. Allegations of birth defects in the families of Vietnam veterans and the Vietnamese represented a case study in propaganda and deliberate misinformation by the government of Vietnam. The Policies of the US Government implemented by Congress and the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) identified 17 recognized associated presumptive diseases that failed the tests of "cause and effect" and common sense. This book tells the story of Agent Orange, its usage, the health studies and those policies from a diverse range of perspectives, delving into science, statistics, history, policy and ethics. It is of interest to scholars engaged in history, political and social philosophy and ethics.

Technologies of Mind and Body in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc (Hardcover): Claire Shaw, Anna Toropova Technologies of Mind and Body in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc (Hardcover)
Claire Shaw, Anna Toropova
R2,931 Discovery Miles 29 310 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The project to create a ‘New Man’ and ‘New Woman’ initiated in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc constituted one of the most extensive efforts to remake human psychophysiology in modern history. Playing on the different meanings of the word ‘technology’ — as practice, knowledge and artefact — this edited volume brings together scholarship from across a range of fields to shed light on the ways in which socialist regimes in the Soviet bloc and Eastern Europe sought to transform and revolutionise human capacities. From external, state-driven techniques of social control and bodily management, through institutional practices of transformation, to strategies of self-fashioning, Technologies of Mind and Body in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc probes how individuals and collectives engaged with — or resisted — the transformative imperatives of the Soviet experiment. The volume’s broad scope covers topics including the theory and practice of revolutionary embodiment; the practice of expert knowledge and disciplinary power in psychotherapy and criminology; the representation and transformation of ideal bodies through mass media and culture; and the place of disabled bodies in the context of socialist transformational experiments. The book brings the history of human ‘re-making’ and the history of Soviet and Eastern Bloc socialism into conversation in a way that will have broad and lasting resonance.

Explorations in the History and Heritage of Machines and Mechanisms - 7th International Symposium on History of Machines and... Explorations in the History and Heritage of Machines and Mechanisms - 7th International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms (HMM) (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Marco Ceccarelli, Rafael Lopez Garcia
R6,409 Discovery Miles 64 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book gathers the latest advances in the field of history of science and technology, as presented by leading international researchers at the 7th International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms (HMM), held in Granada and Jaen, Spain on April 28-30, 2022. The Symposium, which was promoted by the permanent commission for the History of Machine and Mechanism Science (MMS) of IFToMM, provided an international forum to present and discuss historical developments in the field of MMS. The contents cover all aspects of the development of MMS from antiquity until the present era and its historiography: modern reviews of past works, engineers in history and their works, the development of theories, history of the design of machines and mechanisms, historical developments of mechanical design and automation, historical developments of teaching, the history of schools of engineering, the education of engineers. The contributions, which were selected by means of a rigorous international peer-review process, highlight numerous exciting ideas that will spur novel research directions and foster multidisciplinary collaborations.

A Space Mind (Hardcover): Ross Abotteen A Space Mind (Hardcover)
Ross Abotteen
R817 Discovery Miles 8 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Early Scientific Computing in Britain (Hardcover): Mary Croarken Early Scientific Computing in Britain (Hardcover)
Mary Croarken
R1,406 Discovery Miles 14 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is a study of how scientific computation developed in British universities, the scientific civil service, and the armed services during the period 1900-1950. It describes the emergence of computing laboratories in Britain, along with the machines and personalities involved. British computational work is examined from an organizational perspective and the concept of centralized computing power is discussed. Computing methods used up to the 1950s ranged from the use of mathematical tables, via slide rules and other mathematical instruments, to desk calculating machines, accounting machines, differential analysers, and early computers.

Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology (Hardcover, Annotated Ed): Lance Day, Ian McNeil Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
Lance Day, Ian McNeil
R7,122 Discovery Miles 71 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days




eBook available with sample pages: PD:0415193990

A Global History of Warfare and Technology - From Slings to Robots (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Kaushik Roy A Global History of Warfare and Technology - From Slings to Robots (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Kaushik Roy
R3,891 Discovery Miles 38 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book addresses the global history of technology, warfare and state formation from the Stone Age to the Information Age. Using a combination of top-down and bottom-up methodologies, it examines both interstate and intrastate conflicts with a focus on Eurasian technology and warfare. It shows how human agency and structural factors have intertwined, creating a complex web of technology and warfare. It also explores the interplay between technological and non-technological factors to chart the evolution of warfare from its origins to the present day, arguing that the interactions between civilian and military sectors have shaped the use of technology in warfare. Given its scope and depth, it is a valuable resource for researchers in fields such as world history, history of science and technology, history of warfare and imperialism and international relations.

Entre Maecanique et Architecture (English, French, Hardcover, 1995 ed.): Patricia Radelet-de Grave, Edoardo Benvenuto Entre Maecanique et Architecture (English, French, Hardcover, 1995 ed.)
Patricia Radelet-de Grave, Edoardo Benvenuto; Preface by Patricia Radelet-de Grave
R1,599 Discovery Miles 15 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Entre Meeanique et Arehiteeture: e'est-a-dire, entre les proeedes teehniques qui, depuis des temps immemoriaux eonforment l'art et la scienee de la eonstruetion au developpement de la scienee physique et mathematique la plus generale et, peut-etre, la plus abstraite, subalternata tanturn geometriae et philosophiae naturalis, eomme le disait Tartaglia, bien que liee aux faits les plus farniliers: la statique et la meeanique des mareriaux et des struetures. Le theme qui nous eoneeme est done la relation entre la technique et la scienee dans son exemple le plus important, je crois, du point de vue historiographique mais aussi epistemologique: a savoir, la relation entre le savoir faire, qui se eonforme a la norme, en respeetant une determination et une eongruenee parfaites avee son objectif, et la theorie, qui eonfirme la norme et temoigne la neeessite de la determiner eongrfiment avec les lois de la nature. Avee une extreme perspieaeite, quelque peu offusquee par une frivolite erudite, l' Abbe Franeeseo Maria Franeesehinis, mathematieien et adepte de la philosophie des lurnieres, se peneha sur la question dans un bref traite qu'il publia a Padoue en 1808 sous 1 le titre Des Mathematiques appliquees , soutenant la nouvelle tendanee didaetique introduite a l'Universite de Padoue par l'ephemere Regne d'Italie. Simulant un eonflit entre plusieurs auteurs, Franeesehinis exposait une premiere these dans un Discours inaugural qu'il reeita peut-etre reellement en 1807, lorsqu'il devint titulaire de la Chaire de Mathematiques appliquees.

The Epochal Event - Transformations in the Entangled Human, Technological, and Natural Worlds (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Zoltan... The Epochal Event - Transformations in the Entangled Human, Technological, and Natural Worlds (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Zoltan Boldizsar Simon
R1,890 Discovery Miles 18 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is a unique attempt to capture the growing societal experience of living in an age unlike anything the world has ever seen. Fueled by the perception of acquiring unprecedented powers through technologies that entangle the human and the natural worlds, human beings have become agents of a new kind of transformative event. The ongoing sixth mass extinction of species, the prospect of a technological singularity, and the potential crossing of planetary boundaries are expected to trigger transformations on a planetary scale that we deem catastrophic and try to avoid. In making sense of these prospects, Simon's book sketches the rise of a new epochal thinking, introduces the epochal event as an emerging category of a renewed historical thought, and makes the case for the necessity of bringing together the work of the human and the natural sciences in developing knowledge of a more-than-human world.

Ralph (Hardcover): Clarence Ralph Fitz, Mardelle Marie Fitz Meyer Ralph (Hardcover)
Clarence Ralph Fitz, Mardelle Marie Fitz Meyer
R588 Discovery Miles 5 880 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Penumbra Snippets (Paperback): Nagendra Singh Penumbra Snippets (Paperback)
Nagendra Singh
R866 Discovery Miles 8 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
History of Technology, v. 30 - European Technologies in Spanish History (Hardcover): Ian Inkster History of Technology, v. 30 - European Technologies in Spanish History (Hardcover)
Ian Inkster
R6,643 Discovery Miles 66 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book focuses on the development of four key issues in the development of modern Spain; knowledge, manufacturing, energy and telecommunications, and public works. If technology transfer from advanced nations to less developed systems always worked, then the whole world would now be rich. That this is not the case is so obvious, we might well expect that the history of the processes, successes and failures of technology transfer across nations would be a very well-established field of enquiry. In fact, the theme is still a developing one, and the present Special Issue centres on the case of Spain as exemplary in many respects. The collected essays focus upon the four major themes of knowledge, manufacturing, energy, and telecommunications and public works. Essays range in time from the 18th century to the present time, from studies of espionage and early links between craftsmen and savants, to the institutions of technology (from training systems, to private enterprise activity, or patents), to case-studies of silk manufacture, shipbuilding, mining, paper-making, and pharmaceuticals. Each essay offers a broad variety of material to bring to bear on a major problem of world development, past, present, and future.

The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World (Hardcover): John Peter Oleson The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World (Hardcover)
John Peter Oleson
R5,047 Discovery Miles 50 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Nearly every aspect of daily life in the Mediterranean world and Europe during the florescence of the Greek and Roman cultures is relevant to the topics of engineering and technology. This volume highlights both the accomplishments of the ancient societies and the remaining research problems, and stimulates further progress in the history of ancient technology. The subject matter of the book is the technological framework of the Greek and Roman cultures from ca. 800 B.C. through ca. A.D. 500 in the circum-Mediterranean world and Northern Europe. Each chapter discusses a technology or family of technologies from an analytical rather than descriptive point of view, providing a critical summation of our present knowledge of the Greek and Roman accomplishments in the technology concerned and the evolution of their technical capabilities over the chronological period. Each presentation reviews the issues and recent contributions, and defines the capacities and accomplishments of the technology in the context of the society that used it, the available "technological shelf," and the resources consumed. These studies introduce and synthesize the results of excavation or specialized studies. The chapters are organized in sections progressing from sources (written and representational) to primary (e.g., mining, metallurgy, agriculture) and secondary (e.g., woodworking, glass production, food preparation, textile production and leather-working) production, to technologies of social organization and interaction (e.g., roads, bridges, ships, harbors, warfare and fortification), and finally to studies of general social issues (e.g., writing, timekeeping, measurement, scientific instruments, attitudestoward technology and innovation) and the relevance of ethnographic methods to the study of classical technology. The unrivalled breadth and depth of this volume make it the definitive reference work for students and academics across the spectrum of classical studies.

Video Recording Technology - Its Impact on Media and Home Entertainment (Hardcover): Aaron Foisi Nmungwun Video Recording Technology - Its Impact on Media and Home Entertainment (Hardcover)
Aaron Foisi Nmungwun
R4,490 Discovery Miles 44 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Video recording has recently become an important phenomenon. Although the majority of American homes have at least one video recording set, not much is known about video recording's past and about its continual effect on affiliated industries. This text documents the history of magnetic recording, stressing its importance in consumer as well as commercial applications from the advent of magnetism through the invention of such new technologies as Digital Audio Tape (DAT), High Definition Television (HDTV), and a multitude of sophisicated Digital Video Cassette Recorders.

Consuming Landscapes - What We See When We Drive and Why It Matters (Hardcover): Thomas Zeller Consuming Landscapes - What We See When We Drive and Why It Matters (Hardcover)
Thomas Zeller
R1,095 Discovery Miles 10 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 as they simultaneously sought to be transformed by them. In Consuming Landscapes, Thomas Zeller explores how what we see while driving reflects how we view our societies and ourselves, the role that consumerism plays in our infrastructure, and ideas about reshaping the environment in the twentieth century. Zeller breaks new ground by comparing the driving experience and the history of landscaped roads in the United States and Germany, two major automotive countries. He focuses specifically on the Blue Ridge Parkway in the United States and the German Alpine Road as case studies. When the automobile was still young, an early twentieth-century group of designers-landscape architects, civil engineers, and planners-sought to build scenic infrastructures, or roads that would immerse drivers in the landscapes that they were traversing. As more Americans and Europeans owned cars and drove them, however, they became less interested in enchanted views; safety became more important than beauty. Clashes between designers and drivers resulted in different visions of landscapes made for automobiles. As strange as it may seem to twenty-first-century readers, many professionals in the early twentieth century envisioned cars and roads, if properly managed, as saviors of the environment. Consuming Landscapes illustrates how the meaning of infrastructures changed as a result of use and consumption. Such changes indicate a deep ambivalence toward the automobile and roads, prompting the question: can cars and roads bring us closer to nature while deeply altering it at the same time?

History of Technology Volume 29 (Hardcover, New): Ian Inkster History of Technology Volume 29 (Hardcover, New)
Ian Inkster
R6,638 Discovery Miles 66 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book offers a new way of looking at Chinese history through their technological advances. The technical problems confronting different societies and periods and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. It deals with the history of technical discovery and change and explores the relationship of technology to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic - and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.

The Flying Man - Otto Lilienthal-History, Flights and Photographs (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Markus Raffel, Bernd Lukasch The Flying Man - Otto Lilienthal-History, Flights and Photographs (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Markus Raffel, Bernd Lukasch
R1,062 R753 Discovery Miles 7 530 Save R309 (29%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Of all the men who attacked the flying problem in the 19th century, Otto Lilienthal was easily the most important. His greatness appeared in every phase of the problem. No one equaled him in power to draw new recruits to the cause; no one equaled him in fullness and dearness of understanding of the principles of flight; no one did so much to convince the world of the advantages of curved wing surfaces; and no one did so much to transfer the problem of human flight to the open air where it belonged." These words were spoken by Wilbur Wright, who successfully accomplished the first powered flight together with his brother Orville in 1903 on the sand dunes of the Outer Banks off the coast of North Carolina. Wilbur was talking about the most important of their predecessors, Otto Lilienthal. Lilienthal attracted worldwide attention due to the spectacular photographs showing him in flight, made possible by technology that had only just been developed by him. This fortuitous union between a pioneer of aviation and the pioneers of so-called "instantaneous photography" is responsible for the immense contemporary popularity of Lilienthal's flights around the globe, the first ever free flights performed by man. This book traces the life of the German aviation pioneer, focusing on the designs of his many aircraft and the photographic documentation that has survived. The presentation ends with a remarkable research project conducted by one of the authors, right up to and including his own training exercises with Lilienthal's "normal soaring apparatus" and "large biplane". This project offered new insight into Lilienthal's work, and also led to a spectacular aerial meeting of Lilienthal's 1895 biplane and the Wright brothers' 1902 biplane at a historic location on the Outer Banks. The book provides access to video material, largely stemming from this project.

Technological Change and the Evolution of Corporate Innovation - The Structure of Patenting 1890-1990 (Hardcover): Birgitte... Technological Change and the Evolution of Corporate Innovation - The Structure of Patenting 1890-1990 (Hardcover)
Birgitte Andersen
R3,497 Discovery Miles 34 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book represents an original study of long term patterns in technological development and innovation in large corporations. The author is primarily concerned with understanding open-ended transformation processes in the evolution of industrialised societies. US patent data from 1890 to 1990 is employed within an evolutionary framework. The book offers an overview of an intellectual agenda associated with a highly important and pervasive set of phenomena and challenges several dogmas currently alive within economic reasoning including: * technological paradigms governing trajectories of opportunity * the S-shaped image of the technological growth cycle and technological dynamics * long waves * industrial dynamics * the variety of firms' technological profiles and corporate trajectories * corporate technological leadership * socio-economic transformation processes and underpinning 'rules'. Technological Change and the Evolution of Corporate Innovation details historically how the innovative and competitive landscapes within industrialised societies have become increasingly complex. This book will appeal to industrial and business economists, technology historians, researchers, students, policymakers and business analysts.

The Unknown Technology in Homer (Hardcover, 2010 ed.): S. A. Paipetis The Unknown Technology in Homer (Hardcover, 2010 ed.)
S. A. Paipetis
R2,890 Discovery Miles 28 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Using such terms as science and technology, which have been relatively - cently adopted, to write about situations and events that occurred 2,500 years ago, may be a paradox. The Homeric Epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, refer to the Mycenean Era, a civilisation that ?ourished from the 16th to 12th c- tury BCE. The seeming paradox ceases to be one when modern specialists, searching through the ancients texts, discover knowledge and applications so advanced, that can be termed as scienti?c or technological in the modern sense of the words. The present book is based on extensive research performed by the author and his associates at the University of Patras, along with the presentations of other researchers at two international symposia, which he organized in 1 Ancient Olympia. It consists of ?ve parts, of which Part I is introductory, including such chapters as Homer and Homeric Epics, Troy and the mythological causes of the War, Achilles and his wrath, the siege and fall of Troy, Odysseus' long way home, the Trojan war and the cultural tradition, scienti?c knowledge in the Homeric Epics and ?nally an account on science and technology. Part II includes three chapters on applications of principles of natural s- ence, including chariot racing and the laws of curvilinear motion, creep in wood and hydrodynamics of vortices and the gravitational sling.

Heinkel He 111 (Paperback): Franz Kober Heinkel He 111 (Paperback)
Franz Kober
R304 R278 Discovery Miles 2 780 Save R26 (9%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The He 111 flew over every front from the first day of the Second World War to the last and was among the most produced aircraft of the Luftwaffe. Aerodynamically a very clean aircraft, it was a superior bomber during the first two years of the war. This volume is dedicated to this aircraft.

The General and the Genius (Paperback): James Kunetka The General and the Genius (Paperback)
James Kunetka
R558 R528 Discovery Miles 5 280 Save R30 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Anti-Computing - Dissent and the Machine (Hardcover): Caroline Bassett Anti-Computing - Dissent and the Machine (Hardcover)
Caroline Bassett
R2,374 Discovery Miles 23 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

We live in a moment of high anxiety around digital transformation. Computers are blamed for generating toxic forms of culture and ways of life. Once part of future imaginaries that were optimistic or even utopian, today there is a sense that things have turned out very differently. Anti-computing is widespread. This book seeks to understand its cultural and material logics, its forms, and its operations. Anti-Computing critically investigates forgotten histories of dissent - moments when the imposition of computational technologies, logics, techniques, imaginaries, utopias have been questioned, disputed, or refused. It asks why dissent is forgotten and how - under what circumstances - it revives. Constituting an engagement with media archaeology/medium theory and working through a series of case studies, this book is compelling reading for scholars in digital media, literary, cultural history, digital humanities and associated fields at all levels. -- .

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