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The USAF Flight Test Center at Edwards AFB has long been one of the
most interesting test sites in the world. This pictorial history
covers all of the aircraft shown publicly between 1957 and 1966,
with a chapter for each year listing all of the aircraft shown,
giving the manufacturer, designation, popular name and serial
number. Aircraft range from the X-1B and X-5 to the XB-70, F-111
and SR-71, including nearly all of the fighters from the F-80
through the Century series, plus the Navy types. Transports,
including a few civil jets, attack aircraft, trainers, bombers,
helicopters, and many unusual VTOL aircraft are also fully covered
in the author's more than 600 color photographs.
The second edition of Clean Electricity from Photovoltaics, first
published in 2001, provides an updated account of the underlying
science, technology and market prospects for photovoltaics. All
areas have advanced considerably in the decade since the first
edition was published, which include: multi-crystalline silicon
cell efficiencies having made impressive advances, thin-film CdTe
cells having established a decisive market presence, and organic
photovoltaics holding out the prospect of economical large-scale
power production.
Archer's "Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast" 2nd Edition,
is the first real text to present the science and policy
surrounding climate change at the right level. Accompanying videos,
simulations and instructional support makes it easier to build a
syllabus to improve and create new material on climate change.
Archer's polished writing style makes the text entertaining while
the improved pedagogy helps better understand key concepts, ideas
and terms.
This edition has been revised and reformulated with a new
chapter template of short chapter introductions, study questions at
the end, and critical thinking puzzlers throughout. Also a new
asset for the BCS was created that will give ideas for assignments
and topics for essays and other projects. Furthermore, a number of
interactive models have been built to help understand the science
and systems behind the processes.
The typewritten script of a First World War pilot's diary with a
large number of photographs was submitted to the publishers William
Heinemann and published by them in 1933. Heinemann stated on the
book's jacket that the diary contained no names, dates, or anything
that could reveal the identity of the writer or the squadron in
which he served. The publishers understood that the diarist was
killed in action in 1918 and that it was in deference to the wishes
of those who were close to him that his diary should be published.
So remarkable were the photographs that their veracity was
immediately questioned, but no proof of their authenticity or
otherwise could be ascertained. It was not until 1983 that a
collection of documents, photographs and artefacts was presented to
the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. Some of the
photographs were recognised as being those of the mystery diarist
and the truth was soon revealed. The author was Wesley Archer, an
American with Canadian parents who served with the RFC in the First
World War, and the photographs and diary had been faked.
Chosen for the 2011 ASLI Choice - Honorable Mention (History
Category) for a compendium of the key scientific papers that
undergird the global warming forecast.
Global warming is arguably the defining scientific issue of
modern times, but it is not widely appreciated that the foundations
of our understanding were laid almost two centuries ago with the
postulation of a greenhouse effect by Fourier in 1827. The
sensitivity of climate to changes in atmospheric CO2 was first
estimated about one century ago, and the rise in atmospheric CO2
concentration was discovered half a century ago. The fundamentals
of the science underlying the forecast for human-induced climate
change were being published and debated long before the issue rose
to public prominence in the last few decades.
"The Warming Papers" is a compendium of the classic scientific
papers that constitute the foundation of the global warming
forecast. The paper trail ranges from Fourier and Arrhenius in the
19th Century to Manabe and Hansen in modern times. Archer and
Pierrehumbert provide introductions and commentary which places the
papers in their context and provide students with tools to develop
and extend their understanding of the subject.
The book captures the excitement and the uncertainty that always
exist at the cutting edge of research, and is invaluable reading
for students of climate science, scientists, historians of science,
and others interested in climate change.
This book is a framework compilation of genealogical research data
for Matthew Spratt and Elizabeth Chirnside, centred on
Northumberland and Durham, England. It includes background material
and significant details of their children and descendants to assist
researchers with related family trees. The book also contains a
picture of Matthew Spratt and one of Elizabeth Chirnside, both in
the Carte de Visit format, taken about 1858. Altogether there are
approximately 380 individuals, a span of six generations and 60
different surnames. Included surnames are Baird, Banks, Baston,
Bell, Bennett, Bowman, Brown, Bruce, Burns, Cairns, Carruthers,
Chirnside (133), Chrisp, Cobb, Cromarty, Davison, Deans, Dougall,
Dunn, Edmond, Elliott, Embleton, Emery, Ford, Fryer, Glass, Gordon,
Harris, Hay, Hedley, Heslop, Hills, Hindhaugh, Hindmarsh, Johnson,
Lindbloom, Moore, Morrison, Nichol, Omen, Peacock, Purvis, Robson,
Rogers, Scott, Smith, Spratt (100), Stephenson, Stones, Symm, Tait,
Thayer, Thirlwell, Tough, Wanless, Watson, Weatherhead, Wilson, and
Winter. Some individuals recorded are located in the United States
in Illinois, Ohio, and Iowa.
The University of Cambridge's 1702 chair of chemistry is the oldest
continuously occupied chair of chemistry in Britain. The lives and
work of the 1702 chairholders over the past three hundred years,
described here, paint a vivid picture of chemistry as it slowly
transformed from the handmaiden of alchemists and adjunct of
medical men into a major academic discipline in its own right. The
book has twelve chapters, covering all fifteen chairholders, from
Giovanni Francesco Vigani, a contemporary and friend of Isaac
Newton, through Smithson Tennant, discoverer of osmium and iridium,
and Alexander Robertus Todd, Nobel Laureate and elucidator of the
structure of key components of the double helix, to the current
chairholder, master molecule maker Steven Victor Ley. Containing
personal memoirs and historical essays by acknowledged experts,
this book will engage all who are interested in the pivotal role
chemistry has played in the making of the modern world.
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