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Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > Inventions & inventors
Vladimir Babitsky was born before the Second World War and migrated
West after Perestroika. The theory of vibro-impact systems that he
developed helped create the world's safest jackhammer and other
record-breaking machines. The author has lived through a series of
fascinating epochs: experiencing life under totalitarianism,
witnessing the Soviet Union's collapse, and then migrating to
Europe as a specialist in his field. "On the Waves of a Pulsating
World" is an animated and highly engaging story about the journey
of an engineer; from childhood daydreams to creating new
technologies, from East to West, and from concepts to realities. It
is also the story of people who outshine authoritarianism.
Once called the "Yankee Da Vinci," Rufus Porter was an itinerant
portrait painter and muralist, a publisher and author, an inventor
of mechanical improvements, and an impresario who engineered an
airship that promised to fly gold rush prospectors from New York to
California in three days. Through his diverse interests in
painting, mechanics, aeronautics, and publishing, Rufus Porter
helped transform art and science in early America-not unlike his
more famous peers, Samuel F. B. Morse and Robert Fulton. This
nuanced picture of Porter restores him to the pantheon of great
American artist-inventors and corrects common misconceptions about
his life and work. Meticulous and contemplative, this study
presents a moving portrait of an American legend-a remarkable, but
unlucky, man who worked across multiple disciplines to envision an
interconnected nation.
This book is dedicated to the life and work of Ignacy Lukasiewicz,
Polish pharmacist whose world-renowned achievements include
construction of the world's first oil refinery and invention of the
modern kerosene lamp. The authors also portray the history of the
Galician oil industry and set it in the context of political,
social and technological changes taking place in the 19th-century
Central and Eastern Europe. "The work adds substantially to
existing scholarship in English. As the author of the only
English-language academic monograph devoted to a general history of
the Galician oil industry, I can attest that this manuscript adds
significant and important information, details, depth of
investigation that is not provided in my book or any other book. It
therefore makes a novel contribution that will be very valuable to
anyone looking for a truly detailed account of Ignacy Lukasiewicz's
contribution within the context of the Galician oil industry in
general." Alison Frank Johnson Professor of History and of Germanic
Languages and Literatures Harvard University, Center for European
Studies "The authors sketch the profiles of two outstanding Poles,
pioneers of the oil industry - Ignacy Lukasiewicz, MSc. in
Pharmacy, and mining engineer and geologist Witold Zglenicki,
called the Polish Nobel (...) This scientific work is an
interesting and captivating read. It can be used not only by
scientists and students, but also by everyone who is interested in
industrial cultural heritage (...)." Krzysztof Bronski Professor
and Head of Department of Economic and Social History Economic
University in Krakow
This book presents the history of modern human
creativity/innovation through examples of solutions to basic human
needs that have been developed over time. The title - Homo
problematis solvendis - is a play on the scientific classifications
of humans (e.g. Homo habilis, Homo erectus, Homo sapiens), and is
intended to suggest that a defining characteristic of modern humans
is our fundamental ability to solve problems (i.e. problem- solving
human = Homo problematis solvendis). The book not only offers new
perspectives on the history of technology, but also helps readers
connect the popular interest in creativity and innovation (in
schools, in businesses) with their psychological underpinnings. It
discusses why creativity and innovation are vital to societies, and
how these key abilities have made it possible for societies to
develop into what they are today.
This thought-provoking publication covers a wide-range of
innovative areas of research and technologies that are unlocking
groundbreaking new potentials in science. It contains important
scientific information gleaned from the lectures of some of the
world's experts in their respective fields. The book offers
'exceptional scientific insights, oftentimes addressing challenges
before they are even recognized as questions. Chronicling the
revolutionary ideas of Nobel Laureates, winners of Wolf Prize, US
National Medal of Science and other notable scientists.
Genius Inventions gives readers an unprecedented insight into the
events, people and histories behind technological and scientific
developments that have helped shape modern civilization. Discover
the inspiration for some of the most important moments in the
history of technology. An invention is rarely the brainchild of a
single person, however brilliant, and the book includes timelines
that explain the development of each creation and pays homage to
some of the other great developments that came before and after.
Beautifully illustrated throughout, showing 20 items of rare,
on-the-page documents and memorabilia. See plans of the Wright
Brothers' plane and extracts from the notebook of Alexander Graham
Bell.
One of the preeminent natural philosophers of the Enlightenment,
Benjamin Thompson started out as a farm boy with a practical turn
of mind. His inventions and scientific explorations include the
Rumford fireplace, insulated clothing, the thermos, convection
ovens, double boilers, double-paned glass and an improved sloop.
Successful in world affairs, he was knighted by King George III and
became a Count of the Holy Roman Emperor. Thompson was popular with
women - so much so that his personal life eclipsed his
achievements. While British spy in the colonies, he had an affair
with the wife of Boston printer Isaiah Thompson. In London, he had
a fling with the wife of a doctor who would be in the first man to
balloon across the English Channel. He fathered a child by the
court mistress of the Prince Elector and had affairs with several
other German noblewomen. He wrote that his first marriage, to a New
England minister's daughter, made his career, and called his second
wife, the widow of the French chemist Lavoisier, a ""female
dragon."" Drawing on Thompson's correspondence and diaries, this
book examines his friendships and romantic relationships.
The full cost of filing and receiving a patent can be anywhere
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process. But, if you have the right tools and the right knowledge
of everything the government needs from you in a patent drawing,
you can bypass much of what has plagued companies and inventors
everywhere for decades.
This book has been designed to guide you in the process of
developing and producing your own patent drawings in a manner that
ensures you can skip over an entire overly expensive step in the
process, designing your own drawings and moving that much closer to
your patents. You will learn the basics of starting to draw and how
to start using various perspectives to and drawing methods to
capture real world objects. Learn perspective foreshortening and
how to effectively use a pen, ruler, and other drawing instruments.
Learn the basics of drawing with a computer and how to start using
a camera to supplement your drawings. Learn what tools you need for
your drawings and how to start tracing things to speed up the
process. Learn how to draw from your imagination and how to draw to
scale effectively. You will learn how to use graphical symbols and
how to practice enough to get the process correct.
The best patent drawers in the industry have been interviewed and
their advice is included in this guide to help you learn how they
got started and what they recommend to effectively present your
imagery to the Patent office. You will learn how to use CAD
software, how to start drawing utility patents, and design patents.
And most importantly, you will learn what the various standards of
work are for patent drawings, from mediums and arrangement to
lines, legends, scale, and copyright issues. If you are considering
getting a patent and are not excited to pay anywhere between $2,000
and $10,000 for your patent drawings this book is for you.
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This book focuses on the contribution of Morse's colleagues and
employees to the creation of the Test Telegraph, specifically those
of Ezra Cornell and Joseph Henry. The book views Morse primarily as
a businessman and consolidator of ideas rather than conflicts
between Morese and his associates and his effort to present a
finished, uniform system under his sole imprimatur. The bulk of the
material addresses three periods in Morse's life: his visit to
Albany in 1823, the period leading up to and just after the
creation of the Baltimore-Washington test line in 1844 and the 1860
renewal of the Magnetic Relay. The battle between Morse and Cornell
over the invention of the Magnetic Relay forms a central conflict
in the drama. What emerges is a complex portrait of ambitious and
brilliant men and the age in which they lived.
As Star Trek celebrates its 50th anniversary, the futuristic tools
of Kirk, Spock, Scott, and McCoy continue to come to life. This
book merges Star Trek scientific lore-how the science of the time
informed the implementation of technology in the series-and the
science as it is playing out today. Scientists and engineers have
made and continue to develop replicators, teletransporters, tractor
beams, and vision restoring visors. This book combines the vision
of 1966 science fiction with the latest research in physics,
biotechnology, and engineering.
An outstanding collection of poetry about inventions and inventors,
real and imagined, assembled by editor and poet, Bernadette Geyer,
author of The Scabbard of Her Throat and a chapbook, What Remains.
"I was awed by the seemingly endless number of ways that poets
approached the subject. Naturally, there are poems about real
inventions-from clocks to pantyhose to chemotherapy drugs-as well
as poems that conjure fantastical inventions-such as a contraption
for kissing and a happy marriage machine. While some of the poems
in this anthology provide searing commentary on the dreadfulness of
some of the creations birthed by inventors, other poems offer us a
view into the stories behind inventions, as well as the lives of
real and imagined inventors. Whether invoking humor, irony,
historic research, or imagination, the poems in this anthology
converse not only with each other, but also with their readers and
the world at large, in service to the continued human drive to
create solutions-even to problems we didn't know we had." -
Bernadette Geyer Poems by Alex Dreppec, Brett Foster, Clare Louise
Harmon, Daniel Hales, David Mook, Donald Illich, Dorene O'Brien, F.
J. Bergmann, FJP Langheim, Gwen Hart, H.M. Jones, Holly
Karapetkova, J.G. McClure, Janet McNally, Jean Bonin, Jerry
Bradley, Jesseca Cornelson, Jessica Goodfellow, Jo Angela Edwins,
Joel Allegretti, Julie E. Bloemeke, Karen Bovenmyer, Karen
Skolfield, Kathryn Rickel, Keith Stevenson, Kelly Cherry, Kim
Roberts, Kirsten Imani Kasai, Kristine Ong Muslim, Laura Shovan,
Magus Magnus, Malka Older, Marcela Sulak, Marjorie Maddox, Mia
Leonin, Nolan Liebert, Norbert Gora, Rie Sheridan Rose, Rikki
Santer, Robert Kenny, Sarah Key, Scott Beal, Shelley Puhak, Steven
Wingate, Susan Bucci Mockler, Tanis MacDonald, Tanya Bryan, Tricia
Asklar, W. Luther Jett, William Minor, and William Winfield Wright
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